[leglug-users] Corporate VoIP

[BashLogic]

greetz

asteriks is good to have for the must have landline environments,
otherwise, its time to move on. asteriks, when combine with a call
routing box can save you huge costs because you can divert outgoing
calls to pass thru the routing box and straight to the right network,
hence if you dial from the office to a gsm, the box would route your
call via itself (since it has 1+n numbers of gsm devices in it) and
would perform a network to network call saving you on transit tarrif
that operators might charge you between landline to network. there are
numerous other scenarios where this would serve wll.

in europe it has become a legacy to have pbx in the office, operators
provide virtual pbx services where you can connect the "pbx
infrastructure" to your company mobile phones and the fees are small
hence very potential, actually in scandinavia that is the way things
are going unless you have specific landline requirements.

skype as well has set a foothold in small companies. so small
companies are never again going to invest in landlines and pbxs, and
unless im mistaken you can even configure asteriks to route to skype.

so basically all in all, if you have a pc network in the office, just
use asteriks for the must have dialout landlines (fax/modems etc) and
move employees to use mobile and skype or own "skype server"

another policy that companies are imploying is that even thou
employees are given phone benefits, the policy is changing towards
that the company covers the calls done between 8-16:00 on working days
and even then, there are statistics on the calls for review. so its
not going to be a free benefit for the employee on the long run.

you would require several old boxes and numerous cards to get that
many interafces on asteriks, that is like an average of 7 servers to
sustain and replace 100 internal connections. that is not feasable
even big corporates have deployed own instant messaging servers to cut
down costs as still in 2001 the pbx infrastructure in corporates was
more expensive to maintain that backbone networks!

thou asteriks is flexible, it will become a nussance when you are
working with that many fixed connections so you want to cut down on
the fixed connections and start using the SIP  option.

i remember in 2003 i worked for a company of about 50 ppl, i threw out
the pbx, arranged for a virtual pbx with the operator and installed an
internal instant messaging services and irc server for online meetings
with other parties, the expenses were cut down to a fraction of what
it was things were "modern" and up to date and ppl were happy as they
got things done. and oh yeah i kept a several landline for our specfic
requirements ;)

dunno why nortel is pushing it, i havent noticed any followup that
they have their hands tangled in asteriks, could be just a local way
to get a turnover over for the company which is typical in lebanon.

Regards
BL

On 5/24/07, Abdallah <abdallah.deeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Another project is on my mind (and on the whiteboard behind me): VoIP PBX.
> Those in the business will directly think of Asterisk, the open source
> pbx software. However, what one needs when thinking of such deployment
> in a company goes beyond software.
> So, which hardware do you use for a SMB size company (50-100 users)?
> Has anyone here tried this stuff?
> What advantages do you feel ip telephony brings to the business/users?
> And what problems do you anticipate?
>
> Note that I have been approached by Nortel distributors in Lebanon for
> the same setup. I think they've started to push it through companies
> in Lebanon.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Abdallah Deeb
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