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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:38:19AM -0500, Josh Pollak wrote: > > Would you recommend buying an asterix based commercial solution, rather > > than rolling our own? We'd like to save money, but we don't really want > > to have to worry about maintaining our PBX. > > If you don't want to maintain your PBX, Asterisk is not for you. > Asterisk is for uber-control-freaks, telephone geeks, and sysadmins who ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I believe the term you are looking for is 'Phone Phreaks' :D > think nothing of learning another complex system. I have to agree with you, to a point. With existing telephones already on site, I would go with a 'hard' PBX. IMHO, despite Digium saying to the contrary, Asterisk's Computer <-> Analog Phone interfaces just aren't production quality (yet). However, if you want to go all VoIP, Asterisk is the perfect solution, it does an amazing job. (case in point, I am setting up an extension in my office in Boston hanging off my Asterisk PBX in Lynn all through VoIP. Yummy). There a tons of hardware-based PBXs out there, look online or talk to Verizon (*shudder*). ~Ben -- /"\ Ben Jackson \ / bbj <at> innismir.net - http://www.innismir.net/ X Member of the ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Mail / \
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