[Asterisk-Users] Building from scratch, would like the benefit of everyone's experience

[Michael Sampson]

You could probably save some money by building the server from scratch 
rather than buying a dell. I would at least buy a 2 port T-1 card, just 
cause you're better off keeping only one card in the system and its only 
a few hundred dollars more for the 2 port. This will make it easier if 
you ever need to add another T-1 line.

They do make IP phones with built in switches or routers. I think that 
with IP phones you tend to get what you pay for. I would think almost 
any phone would allow a static IP.

If you are new to asterisk I think you should be able to do everything 
you are looking to do with Asterisk at Home.

Michael Sampson
Information Systems Manager
Customer Contact Services
msampson at yourccsteam.com
952-936-4000



Warren wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am going to be building an Asterisk system to replace the current 
> aging (aged) Nortel Meridian system in a travel agency.  There is 
> already a voice T-1 in place and currently there are about 20 
> extensions in use.  I would want to move up to about 25 extensions 
> immediately and about 30-35 within the year.
>
> I am going to want IVR and voicemail, plus the ability to ring a group 
> of phones at once if the caller wants a salesperson.
>
> Here is what I am thinking of so far:
> Server: Dell PowerEdge 1850 with redundant power supplies and hardware 
> RAID 1 across 2 drives, running Centos 4.x - nice server with 
> redundancy and only 1U
> T-1 Interface: Digium TE110P
>
> I would like any comments about those choices and also some comments 
> about what phones would be good.  I can make the business case for 
> almost any reasonable budget - I just need to know what would be best 
> and if I need any other cards (Noise cancellation?) - If so I would 
> probably have to go to a 2U server like a 2850.
>
> The phones are my biggest question mark right now.  I know basically 
> nothing about IP phones.  The only thing that I do know is that having 
> 2 ethernet ports would be very helpful since there is only 1 network 
> connection per desk and that is already plugged into a PC.  I would 
> like phones that allow static IPs (which I assume all do) so that the 
> programmers can allow a Customer Service rep to bring up the sales 
> record(s) of the person they are on the phone with based on their 
> phone number.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Warren
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