RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
If you have the money, I would recommend the Cisco 7900 series, but if you need cheap phones, go with sipura. I can get you all you need if you want. The Sipura phones run about $100. Adam Collard General Manager, ER Wireless (800) 757-5669 x4861 (810) 496-0161 Fax (517) 242-1800 Cell Nextel DC 131*256784*19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brandt Milczewski Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:00 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted. I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP environment. All intercompany calls. I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other. I'm looking for tips on the types of phones to look at. Cost is secondary only to reliabity. Any tips? TIA, -brandt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
brandt Milczewski wrote: I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP environment. All intercompany calls. I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other. I'm looking for tips on the types of phones to look at. Cost is secondary only to reliabity. Any tips? TIA, -brandt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users We have over 100 Polycomm IP 300/500s installed, and they work great. The 300 will save you $50+ per phone over the 500, but you can't beat the 500 for a quality deskset with a good speakerphone. Mike Clark ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
Wireless bridges?? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson > Sent: Friday, 27 May 2005 1:18 PM > To: 'brandt Milczewski'; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial > Discussion' > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones > wanted. > > >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within > >about 4 miles of each other. > > Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul > Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100 > metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so > isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that. > What > is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations > together? > ___ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
Well, that will be pretty preferential As stated before, I love the Polycom IP500. I think it is just a great phone for less than $200. It configs easily once you get used to the config file and Polycoms have great speaker phones. Many love the Ciscos... Admittedly a beautiful phone but harder to configure as I understand it and you have to get a license... They tend to cost a little more but they are artwork in motion as far as looks go. With 100 phones, I would seriously consider ease of setup. To that note, Polycom is supposedly now supporting HTTPS download of config scripts which means you could create a repository for your files on an FTP server and secutely transfer the configs over the internet. Pretty cool. Basically, you can go to any voipsupply.com or other and look for phones that are asthetically pleasing and cost over $150. Even some of the phones that cost around the $100 are nice. How fancy do you really want and how will you manage configuration? What other info can you give on the project? Are you proficient with Asterisk and do you understand issues of SIP (firewall traversal, etc)? Thanks, Wiley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brandt Milczewski Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:00 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted. I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP environment. All intercompany calls. I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other. I'm looking for tips on the types of phones to look at. Cost is secondary only to reliabity. Any tips? TIA, -brandt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
I thought he meant that as well but I hope that what will occur is that there is DSL somewhere already that can be utilized. That conflicts with the 'old town PBX' scenario as well though. So, assuming there is DSL already, that even makes you wonder why bother if a phone line already exists and local calling is free? I think we need more details on this one. W -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:18 AM To: 'brandt Milczewski'; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted. >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 >miles of each other. Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100 metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that. What is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Mike Clark wrote: > brandt Milczewski wrote: > > >I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for in our > >office. And an old small town phone system for up at the mountain. The > >phone system is dying and I'm hoping to bring IP to replace the old > >phones. It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within > >about 4 miles of each other. > > > >I'm looking for tips on the types of phones to look at. Cost is > >secondary only to reliabity. Any tips? > > > We have over 100 Polycomm IP 300/500s installed, and they work great. > The 300 will save you $50+ per phone over the 500, but you can't beat > the 500 for a quality deskset with a good speakerphone. For that number of phones buying or getting loaner samples is probably the way to go. Resonable alternatives include Polycom, Snom or possibly even the GXP-2000, though the latter depends somewhat how much trust you place on future software upgrades. In these quantities you should be able to get a good price on any of these phones. Peter ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > brandt Milczewski > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:00 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 > phones wanted. > > > I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP > environment. All intercompany calls. > > I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for > in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at > the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to > bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 > phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other. With a run of 4 miles, it’s a safe bet that some segments will be (as others have pointed out) beyond the 100 meter limit of ethernet. In practice, under optimal conditions, you can fudge this a bit (sometimes a lot) but I wouldn't count on it. For the longer hauls, you might want to consider point-to-point DSL, using something like this http://www.paradyne.com/products/SNE2000/ Conceivably, if you own the copper, you could do anything you want with it. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 05/20/2005 ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
