Hi everyone !
So here's my question of the day ! I need to make a decision on whether or not to go to a voip solution or configure an existing pbx (norstar) that my company has available. We are a small startup. I'm wanting a solution that will support up to about 200 people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about 30 concurrent phone calls and good voice quality. Right now I have an asterisk deployment with about 15 people on it. We have sipura 841 phones. The biggest issue currently is voice quality. lot of complaints there. I have a dell 650 poweredge (single processory system), with a digium tdm400 card and 4 analog lines plugged into it.
So here's my question of the day ! I need to make a decision on whether or not to go to a voip solution or configure an existing pbx (norstar) that my company has available. We are a small startup. I'm wanting a solution that will support up to about 200 people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about 30 concurrent phone calls and good voice quality. Right now I have an asterisk deployment with about 15 people on it. We have sipura 841 phones. The biggest issue currently is voice quality. lot of complaints there. I have a dell 650 poweredge (single processory system), with a digium tdm400 card and 4 analog lines plugged into it.
[Kerry Garrison
sayeth]
The 841 is fine for testing but I would never put
one on a clients desk. The sound quality is bottom of the barrel. Combine that
with the TDM400 card and its a wonder anyone will use the phone system at
all. Move up to the Linksys SPA941 or SPA942 or the Polycom 501 and then
use a different interface such as the Mediatrix 1204 or a PRI and your
users will be singing your praises till the end of
time.
So here are my questions:
* Is asterisk a good solution for my company ? or should I just install the traditional pbx and look to move to asterisk in a couple of years ? (I personally would prefer asterisk cuz I'm a unix person not a phone person so from a manageability perspective i would love this )
[Kerry Garrison sayeth]
So here are my questions:
* Is asterisk a good solution for my company ? or should I just install the traditional pbx and look to move to asterisk in a couple of years ? (I personally would prefer asterisk cuz I'm a unix person not a phone person so from a manageability perspective i would love this )
[Kerry Garrison sayeth]
Asterisk is a great solution for your company and you
will have many more benefits than the Northstar system.
* If I were to go to an asterisk solution to support about 200 people with the requirements above what hardware platform would you recommend ? I'm guessing I'd need a PRI line and a different digium card? Also would a 1cpu poweredge dell be enough ? or would that have to be upgraded too ?
[Kerry Garrison
sayeth]
You would want a beefier machine and at least one PRI.
Its not the number of people, its the number of concurrent phone calls. I see
businesses with 100 people and they average 5-7 concurrent calls and I have
clients with 15 people that average 12-15 concurrent calls.
If anyone is running an environment similar to this that can provide help I would really appreciate this. I'm having a hard time making this decision and would love to hear anybody's experience in a real time environment.
If anyone is running an environment similar to this that can provide help I would really appreciate this. I'm having a hard time making this decision and would love to hear anybody's experience in a real time environment.
[Kerry Garrison
sayeth]
My largest install is approaching 55 users, with the
PRI and Polycom 501's they couldnt be happier. The system is on a nice 2.8ghz
XEON system with 2gb of RAM and at peak times the server is basically
idle.
Thanks again this list ROCKS!
Nora Lavelle
Thanks again this list ROCKS!
Nora Lavelle
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