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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We've been talking about
moving from our NBX100 to an asterisk solution for some time now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Well, to make a long
story short, the call processor on our NBX has went south. We are now
forced to purchase a new call processor >$500 or move our solution to asterisk.
(Which is up and running and have been tested with Grandstream Adapters.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>My question: Is
there anyone out there that have moved from NBX to Asterisk, and what are the
differences for your users, hold, transferring calls, etc. Also, what
features will we loose, if any. And do you recommend analog phones with
sip adapters (Which we already have.) or making an investment in IP phones?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Our setup:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>NBX had 4 analog lines
coming into it with 14 phones.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Asterisk is set up
running 1.0.7 with a PRI and 100 DID numbers. We have 20 or so Handytone
286 Adapters as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Any advice would be
appreciated!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Adam<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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