[asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond McKay [mailto:asterisk at raynettech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:16 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company
> 
> 
> I'm flying all over the world installing systems for 
> companies ranging from 
> 5 employees - 100s of employees.  I don't think there really 
> is a typical 
> company per say.  Types of business span the financial 
> services sector, to 
> manufacturiring, to software development.  The same general 
> need exists 
> across all of them.  They all wish to.
> 
> 1) Get a full featured phone system but not at the bloated 
> prices charged by 
> Avaya and Cisco
> 2) Take advantage of the substational savings through VoIP providers.
> 3) Integration of their communication technologies.
> 
> I think after I install a 100 systems this year, I'll make 
> some graphs on 
> company type and sectors and see if there are any trends, but 
> as of now, its 
> all over the place.

What are you giving these companies to allow them to manage their Asterisk installations Raymond?
Are you just hard coding a dial plan customised to their needs, and administering their systems for them?

Reason I ask is that I know there's GUI's out there, but you are probably also aware that people also always want more than these can provide. For example, in our installation, I had to cater for incoming and outgoing black-lists and white-lists, PIC codes, rate centers, a findme/followme implementation with caller id based routing, intra company 4 digit extension dialling, internal cid, external cid, cid override with a star code and so on. 

Douglas.