Hello, I have been retained by a Building Management Company to install a combined Voice/Data solution for a Tennated Office Space. This space will rent offices, with telephone and internet service to inviduals or small groups of individuals. As fate would have it, the service will be provided in a building where we have a major Pop, with a DS-3 worth of ISDN PRI circuits, 345 megs of upstream bandwidth and diesel generator backup. We are providing everything for the solution, from the initial wiring to the ongoing maintenance of the PBX and Internet service. I have arranged for a single PRI to be broken out of our DS-3 w/ 100 inbound DID numbers assigned to it and have PICd it to the LD provider of our choice. I intend to plug this PRI into an Asterisk server w/ a Digium TE410P card, and deploy SNOM 200 IP phones to the desktops. We will be using a RedHawk power-injector system to provide power to the phones. Now.. This is our first deployment of Asterisk, and I need a head check here. Am I making the right decision? :)
Sepcifically... 1. Are the SNOM 200 IP phones a good choice for standard users? Or should I consider Cisco? Price of the phone is not the important thing.. What is important is ease of use with minimal training and reliability! 2. Does anyone have reccomendations for a solid motherboard to use as the basis for the Asterisk server? Again, reliability and stability are the important issues here. I'm looking for a Dual CPU board (Athlon MP or P4) that will work flawlessly with the TE410P. I've used the Tyan Tiger MPX (2466) http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermpx.html with Dual MP processors with incredible success in the future. I'm considering building the box on that platform. 3. I am also responsible for delivering inbound faxes to the DID numbers via Email. I.E. customer has a document faxed to them and they get it in Email as a tiff. I'm considering using Hylfax with a Multitech DID capable modem, but other suggestions are welcomed! 4. I have built some cost for support from Digium and/or other Asterisk experts into the budget. Does Digium have paid support plans? What about other consultants out there? I'm just trying to make sure that I cover all the bases. This is got to be a bulletproof solution, and I'm departing from my comfort level with Altigen to give Asterisk a run for the money. We've got TONS of Linux experience here, and comfort with customizing code, so I am happy with what Asterisk gives me.. What else should I be worried about? -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users