[asterisk-users] Multi-tenant with receptionist features for managed service

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Gavin Henry wrote:

> 2009/3/17 Gordon Henderson <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net>:
>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Gavin Henry wrote:

>> When budgets tight - I've deployed a lot of Grandstream phones - might give
>> you a bit more breathing space if you use (eg) GXP280's for the client
>> phones and a GXP2000 + button box for the receptionist.
>
> Yeah, don't really like them though. I could go down to a 51i for £67 ex VAT.

Grandstreams aren't to everyones liking, this is true...

>> You can save money by building your own hardware too. Atom mobo, 1GB of RAM
>> and an OpenVox card running oslec is still overkill for this. I mostly use
>> 1GHz VIA boards for these sort of projects with up to 60 extensions.
>
> What would that come in at? A Dell T100 is £300 ex VAT for 160GB, 1GB RAM and
> a Dual Core Intel® Pentium® E2220; 2.4GHz with 3yrs nxt bday.

Under £200 from someone like http://linitx.com/ I don't put disk drives in 
my boxes though - they boot out of flash. I guess with the Dell, you have 
on-site or next day replacement if you take that deal though.

> A 4 port FXO card is £126.95 ex vat.

(From voipon by the looks of that price ;-)

>> Billings a PITA and other than what I've written myself, have never found
>> anything that works the way I'm happy with... Good luck!
>
> Thanks.

I've been approcached by a client who wants a sort of hotel billing system 
though - tailored to their needs - it's for a retirement home sort of 
thing. I suggested they just did a fixed-price deal with the inmates, but 
that didn't go down well. They want to account for everything to the 
last penny )-:

>>> I think I've covered everything. There will be many more business
>>> centres to come as this first project will be the blueprint one. The
>>> end goal is to also move this to a data centre and not have it on site
>>> with the pstn fallback options, but use redundant links to our DC.
>>> Like a mini-ITSP for our area. I haven't figured the receptionist part
>>> for that bit yet though ;-)
>>
>> Personally I'd stick the box on-site and have a central peering server or 2
>> in the DC - well that's how I do it ;-) You'll struggle to get properly
>> redundant links in that budget range too - one JCB can ruin everyones day!
>
> Yeah, as I planned, but not for this project.

Good luck!

Gordon