Any comment on Asterisk?

[Dave Peters]

Dan,
Thanks for the info.
BTW, what's your cost to setup the whole systems
including the headset?

--Dave
--- Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:03:20AM -0700, Dave
> Peters wrote:
> > My company phone system is quite old and need to
> > replace. I am looking for the option. We are small
> > company and have around 60 people. 
> 
> Asterisk is just about perfect for you, then. The
> features will
> be superior to pretty much any commercial PBS
> available, and
> the reliability is superb.
> 
> You'll want to have both POTS lines, perhaps through
> a T1 or PRI from
> your friendly LEC of choice, and an IAX2 handoff
> over the Net to a
> commercial-scale VOIP provider. I like Junction
> Networks --
> just under 3c/min to US/Canada/Mexico, low prices
> elsewhere as
> well -- but there's no reason to stick with just
> one. Asterisk
> can handle as many as you want to specify.
> 
> You'll want a Linux box running Asterisk at each
> physical office,
> running IAX2 trunks between them over the Net.
> Bandwidth
> requirements will be pretty low -- figure 60Kb/s per
> simultaneous call at maximum quality, 30Kb/s at
> fairly high
> quality.
> 
> And you'll want to invest in a decent microphone to
> record your
> company's interactive menus.
> 
> The killer feature for me is simultaneous ringing.
> Dialing my
> office line gets you:
> 
> 15 seconds of ringing at my desk
> 15 seconds of simultaneous ringing on my desk and my
> cellphone
> 15 seconds of simultaneous ringing on desk, cell,
> and home
> office.
> And then it goes to voice mail, if I somehow haven't
> picked up
> prior to that.
> 
> -dsr-
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