On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, John F. Ervin wrote: > Never having actually rolled an Asterisk (Trixbox in my case) system > into production. I was wondering if in most peoples opinion if given > the choice would rather have a straight VOIP/SIP system or would rather > have a system with normal POTS/analog types lines and something like a > digium card? As far as reliability etc. Thoughts?
A lot may well depend on where you are in the world, how reliable the local PSTN is vs. the local broadband - or leased line service. There will be a cost trade-off too - VoIP over broadband generally being cheaper than installing multiple POTS/ISDN2/ISDN30 connections, but for a slightly lower guarantee of service. Here in the UK we have a generally excellent wholesale (ADSL) broadband system, let-down at times by the back-end ISPs who buy into it, so picking a good back-end ISP is worth it. And how many channels or concurrent calls are you looking at? So too many variables to give a definate answer, but personally I'm installing more and more pure VoIP systems these days. Even when the client wants/needs to keep their legacy PSTN, we use the PSTN for inbound and VoIP for outbound calls. Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users