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

[Gavin Henry]

A2billing is a good fit for that then. Yeah, voipon. Thanks for the
input Gordon. Maybe worth hooking up offline if we're doing similar
stuff.

Gavin.

On 17/03/2009, Gordon Henderson <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
> 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
>

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