I have something to say to my own comment: Using audiocodes equipment will sure give me more asterisk stability than making 185 IPPhones bang my asterisk machine all day.
On 7/6/06, Erick Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
People always talk about cheap products, but they do not consider an important factor. There are countries (like mine) that will *not* pay USD 150.00 for a phone in a company with less than 20 or 30 users. An Example: I work for a bank that has 185 analog extensions and about 20 digital connected to an old, very old, norstar PBX. Analog extensions like the one I use are cheap Panasonic phone (handset+base, and buttons 0-9, *,#) that costs 16 dollars per unit in quantities below 10 units. When I tried to talk about an asterisk setup in my office, they looked and said "how much will it costs?". When I talked about snom 300 phones at 185 per unit they looked at me and ask me if i could do it with cheap panasonic phones. An AudioCodes MP124 (24fxs, SIP, g729,g711) is about 1500 (about $62 per port), so total analog implementation was about $80 per port (panasonic+audiocodes). Sure, that implementation wont beat a snom 300, but sure gets the work done. That's why some of us still use cheapo equipment like grandstream or the like, because some of us can't affort a 150-300 phone. Unless you're the big-chief and the company pays you an executive phone. BTW snom 300 can pass as executive phones down here. cheers, On 7/6/06, shadowym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While * may not be low end, * on a Dell Dimension or (insert your favorite > budget PC here) with X100P cards or cheap ATA's or cheap ? Using Grandstream > phones or (insert your favorite budget SIP phone here) certainly is low end. > > There are MANY people on this list doing exactly that! That is what is > perpetuating the image of low quality, not the software itself. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alexander Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:23 AM > > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > > Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] RE: Bottom end of the market for > > an Asterisk PBX ? > > > > Snip. > > > > > * is not low-end, in fact for our purposes, it is likely the > > highest-end > > > product that we found. People have to stop confusing > > open-source with > > > low quality. Do you consider Firefox a low-end browser? > > > > > > W > > > > Or Linux a low-end OS?, Open-Source is a toolkit, once in a > > while you are able to find a well-made multi-function tool, > > but if you realize that while you may not have the exact tool > > you need, you have all the raw materials and full run and > > access to the machine shop. > > > > On a downside your machine shop tends to reconfigure itself > > every once in a while, as others come in and add/change the > > tools!! But unlike closed-source options at least you can see > > the changes! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------
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