Salvatore Giudice wrote: > Nortel digital Meridian phones are like $400/each. At least that was the > price of the phones at a hotel I did a job for recently.
Still? (Is Nortel even making these phones anymore? I thought they spun off their telephone set division -- anybody heard of Aastra? ;) ) > When you go to SIP, you may save on the capital costs for the phones, but > other costs will increase. These are related to: > > 1.) increased support requirements for supporting VoIP > 2.) additional licensing may be required from your vendor to support SIP or > IP media > 3.) increased costs associated with mitigating potential damages since your > voice services are now subject to the same outages as your network > 4.) increased training costs for staff to become proficient in VoIP > 5.) increased costs associated with monitoring QoS > 6.) increased costs associated with reconfiguring your network for VoIP and > QoS - many times new switches may have to be purchased in addition to SBC's > etc > 7.) additional costs associated with rewiring physical space to accommodate > additional Ethernet ports required for phones Yes, 7 times. > Sometimes, if you already have digital - it may not be worth switching to > SIP even if you save a ton on the handsets. Whenever we switch over a hotel > to VoIP, we always run into these extra 'hidden' costs. > > If you want to do digital with asterisk, I think you'll need a T1/E1 > multiplexer that supports digital phones. Is this anything like a channel bank, only for digital phones? Can you suggest any examples? -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users