<p>This is a typical scenario with so many companies who fail to recognize that they need to take asterisk deployment seriously. I have seen so many of these companies since 2004, since when I am in this industry. Many of them don't want to spend money on right hardware, bandwidth and or the right consultant.<br>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On 2010-06-03 9:41 AM, "Peder" <<a href="mailto:peder@networkoblivion.com">peder@networkoblivion.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Silly. My guess is that someone that doesn't know anything about phones<br>
decided to install it and failed. Lots of erroneous statements:<br>
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" Asterisk because it required a custom-built server" - Nope. You can<br>
pretty much use any old server or really even a desktop machine for an<br>
install this small.<br>
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" Bandwidth maxed out" - Nope. Hosted would use way more bandwidth than a<br>
local * box. Hosted requires all calls, internal, voicemail, local, LD, etc<br>
to all traverse the Internet connection. A local * box would mean only<br>
local or LD would go out that way, so internal, voicemail would never hit<br>
the Internet.<br>
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" DID, never worked" - Not sure what their issue is, but this is the first<br>
thing I setup when I started with * in the pre 1.0 days and it just worked<br>
and that was the first IP telephony experience I ever had.<br>
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They probably thought they were going to save lots of money by going the<br>
cheap route and not getting any external help and it didn't work that way.<br>
$500-$1000 of outside consulting from someone that knows * probably would<br>
have fixed all of their issues.<br>
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