Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G

[Chad Kempt]

This is pretty much what I was thinking Dave. 

My business is involved in small/medium businesses deploying 'usually' 
(and I say that tongue in cheek) either a Linux Domain with windows 
clients, samba acting as a domain controller, or a Windows Small 
Business Server.  Primarily I'm interested in selling monthly 
maintenance contracts on hardware (I do a fair bit of systems 
integration) and anything to do with software/point of sale/etc; I 
usually let a partnering business take care of.  I am a quickbooks 
proadvisor so any businesses dealing quickbooks I tend to taek care of 
(I found it counter productive to bring in several parties to work on a 
3 user office for example) but anything bigger...well..  I got 
interested in Asterisk and have been offering some VOIP services on a 
limited basis, for larger implementations I'd be more than happy to 
partner with someone(s) with more experience and understanding of the 
environment.  It's a give and take relationship though, if I'm bringing 
people in to do work for me with regards to XYZ, I expect to get pulled 
in by them with my services on there clients with regards to my products 
ZYV.


Just name the date and place and you can count me in, the guest speaker 
idea mentioned previously is also very appealing...with regards to 
marketing and what not, I've always found that a nuisance and I'd like 
to know what's working for others.  Oh and for anyone worried about 
competition, I don't think that's going to be an issue...besides I'm not 
even operating in the GTA, the closest I come is probably Mississauga.  
Regardless though I have found it a benefit as opposed to a detriment to 
partner with other businesses that are slightly different with regards 
to there product offering.


Regards,
Chad

Dave Donovan wrote:
I'd be interested.  I think a lot of us are small shops and we'd 
benefit from partnering on certain things.  I can see opportunities 
for me to partner with a group or individual with experience deploying 
hardened Linux boxes in an enterprise environment with me providing 
some expertise in call centre deployments and CRM software; just as an 
example. 

I'd be interested to know what everyone else is doing.  What is your 
focus, what skills or specialties to you offer.


I think that a number of the businesses in the group are not focused 
entirely on Asterisk.  Some are Linux implementation shops that also 
do Asterisk.  I'm an IT consultant who does some Asterisk where it 
applies and I'm sure there are endless combinations.  I know when a 
project isn't well suited to my company.  The more people I can 
network with about business, the better I can hand that deal off or 
partner with someone.


On a matter of protocol, we should probably consider moving this 
thread over to taug-biz.  I'll copy this message to that list to 
facilitate the transition.


Dave

On 5/15/06, *Kristian Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:




Well the basis of the meet would be everything from business
development to
sales & marketing and everything in between.

I have access to a lot of people out there such as Marketing
Agencies to
high level accountants who can come in and speak with us to
educate us how
to help us grow our business, get grants and loans to increase our
technology offerings and this is to just mention some of the ideas
I have on
the top of my head.

This is not going to be a meeting to talk tech - the regular
meetings are
good for that.

I want this meeting to be a time for all of our minds to connect and a
decent way to help each other with all of our very different skill
sets.



-Original Message-
From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:31 AM
To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark
Palser';
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G

For myself, I find that the regular TAUG meetings discuss most of
what I am
interested in from a business perspective.

If you could give a bit more detail on what you would want to
focus on I'd
be able to better evaluate my interest.

Jim

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> -Original Message-
> From: Kristian Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
]
> Sent: May 15, 2006 10:16 AM
> To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark Palser';
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subject: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G
>
> Hello group,
>
> I would like to setup an Asterisk 

Re: [biz] RE: SPAM-LOW: [biz] Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G

[Chad Kempt]

31st doesn't look too bad for me as of now...where did you want to 
meet?  Is everyone except me in the GTA?  I'm coming in from...well 
pretty much Hamilton (actually Caledonia...I think the native Americans 
have made my town a bit famous...or infamous as the case may be) so 
North York is almost 2 hours for me, so if people are closer to the 
Mississauga side of the GTA I'd be happy to meet there :)  Of course I'm 
being a bit selfish here...but I'm just trying to save myself some 
driving! :D


Kristian Ward wrote:

This is exactly what I wanted to get started.

I'm looking to try to shoot for a meeting on the 31st.

How does this date fair for everyone who is interested?  


Kristian

-----Original Message-
From: Chad Kempt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:08 PM

Cc: biz@taug.ca
Subject: SPAM-LOW: [biz] Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G

This is pretty much what I was thinking Dave. 

My business is involved in small/medium businesses deploying 'usually' 
(and I say that tongue in cheek) either a Linux Domain with windows 
clients, samba acting as a domain controller, or a Windows Small 
Business Server.  Primarily I'm interested in selling monthly 
maintenance contracts on hardware (I do a fair bit of systems 
integration) and anything to do with software/point of sale/etc; I 
usually let a partnering business take care of.  I am a quickbooks 
proadvisor so any businesses dealing quickbooks I tend to taek care of 
(I found it counter productive to bring in several parties to work on a 
3 user office for example) but anything bigger...well..  I got 
interested in Asterisk and have been offering some VOIP services on a 
limited basis, for larger implementations I'd be more than happy to 
partner with someone(s) with more experience and understanding of the 
environment.  It's a give and take relationship though, if I'm bringing 
people in to do work for me with regards to XYZ, I expect to get pulled 
in by them with my services on there clients with regards to my products 
ZYV.


Just name the date and place and you can count me in, the guest speaker 
idea mentioned previously is also very appealing...with regards to 
marketing and what not, I've always found that a nuisance and I'd like 
to know what's working for others.  Oh and for anyone worried about 
competition, I don't think that's going to be an issue...besides I'm not 
even operating in the GTA, the closest I come is probably Mississauga.  
Regardless though I have found it a benefit as opposed to a detriment to 
partner with other businesses that are slightly different with regards 
to there product offering.


Regards,
Chad

Dave Donovan wrote:
  
I'd be interested.  I think a lot of us are small shops and we'd 
benefit from partnering on certain things.  I can see opportunities 
for me to partner with a group or individual with experience deploying 
hardened Linux boxes in an enterprise environment with me providing 
some expertise in call centre deployments and CRM software; just as an 
example. 

I'd be interested to know what everyone else is doing.  What is your 
focus, what skills or specialties to you offer.


I think that a number of the businesses in the group are not focused 
entirely on Asterisk.  Some are Linux implementation shops that also 
do Asterisk.  I'm an IT consultant who does some Asterisk where it 
applies and I'm sure there are endless combinations.  I know when a 
project isn't well suited to my company.  The more people I can 
network with about business, the better I can hand that deal off or 
partner with someone.


On a matter of protocol, we should probably consider moving this 
thread over to taug-biz.  I'll copy this message to that list to 
facilitate the transition.


Dave

On 5/15/06, *Kristian Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:




Well the basis of the meet would be everything from business
development to
sales & marketing and everything in between.

I have access to a lot of people out there such as Marketing
Agencies to
high level accountants who can come in and speak with us to
educate us how
to help us grow our business, get grants and loans to increase our
technology offerings and this is to just mention some of the ideas
I have on
the top of my head.

This is not going to be a meeting to talk tech - the regular
meetings are
good for that.

I want this meeting to be a time for all of our minds to connect and a
decent way to help each other with all of our very different skill
sets.



-Original Message-
From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:31 AM
To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonn

POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

[Chad Kempt]

Evening,

Just wondering if there is a more economical way to do POE in a SOHO 
environment (3 phones) other than using the D-Link DWL-P200 modules on 
each phone.  I was looking for low end POE enabled switches from Linksys 
and D-Link and didn't see any...before I go ahead and order the 
DWL-P200's does anyone know of a small 8 port POE switch in the $175-250 
range that I overlooked, preferably with gigabit (wow I'm asking a lot 
for a little ;) ).


Thanks,
Chad

Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

[Chad Kempt]

Great!

I can order that through my distributors.  Too bad it's not gigabit 
though >: (

Still a good deal none the less.

Thanks,
Chad

Mark Palser wrote:
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1333276&CatId=0 
<http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1333276&CatId=0>


- Original Message -
*From:* Mike Ashton <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* biz@taug.ca <mailto:biz@taug.ca>
*Cc:* Chad Kempt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:27 AM
*Subject:* **SPAM: Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

Yup, they have an 8/16 ( sorry no gigabit on these )/24/48 here is
the link:

http://www.netgear.com/products/business/prod_poe_switch_sb.php

Tiger Direct carries it at a cost of 153 ( 143 with a 10 rebate
right now ), not sure who else.

Mark Palser wrote:

Take a look at Netgear, they may have something, Mark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Chad Kempt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)


Evening,

Just wondering if there is a more economical way to do POE in a SOHO 
environment (3 phones) other than using the D-Link DWL-P200 modules on 
each phone.  I was looking for low end POE enabled switches from Linksys 
and D-Link and didn't see any...before I go ahead and order the 
DWL-P200's does anyone know of a small 8 port POE switch in the $175-250 
range that I overlooked, preferably with gigabit (wow I'm asking a lot 
for a little ;) ).


Thanks,
Chad


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Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

[Chad Kempt]

That looks not bad but once I get up near that price range I can get a 
Linksys SRW224P and propose the cost difference because of the gigabit + 
QOS etc etc; But I don't want to oversell.  I'm still wondering if maybe 
the three POE injectors from D-Link + a Linksys 5 port or 8 port gigabit 
workgroup switch wouldn't be a more sound decision.


Thanks,
Chad

Mike Dancy wrote:

The trendnet also does the trick.
It's a bit more but a quality box.
http://www.trendnet.com/products/TPE-S88.htm 


$299 CDN

and yes, I sell them.  So I may be biased.
Mike 


-Original Message-
From: Mark Palser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:20 AM

To: Chad Kempt; biz@taug.ca
Subject: Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

Take a look at Netgear, they may have something, Mark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Chad Kempt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)


Evening,

Just wondering if there is a more economical way to do POE in a SOHO 
environment (3 phones) other than using the D-Link DWL-P200 modules on 
each phone.  I was looking for low end POE enabled switches from Linksys 
and D-Link and didn't see any...before I go ahead and order the 
DWL-P200's does anyone know of a small 8 port POE switch in the $175-250 
range that I overlooked, preferably with gigabit (wow I'm asking a lot 
for a little ;) ).


Thanks,
Chad


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Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

[Chad Kempt]

I guess I should mention that I'm a reseller...so I wont be ordering 
from tigerdirect or anything, it's just that I haven't used any of these 
low end POE switches before and I don't like trying things out on 
clients without at least getting a recommendation ;) 

The same problem exits with that netgear as with the linksys (not just 
the price), a 24 port switch for an office with 3 phones is overkill...I 
think an 8 port would give them enough room to add a few more desks.  As 
for needing gigabit, I suppose not they do move some large files around 
but it's just that gigabit is very cheap in the small switches so it's 
'why not'.  Of course why not because they don't have POE is a good 
answer...but 3x55$ for the D-Link P200's and 1x79$ for a 8 port gigabit 
linksys switch is cheaper than these giant 24 port switches (which are 
just gigabit uplink...which would probably be ok to use for the server 
and then 100Mb to the clients).


Bleh, I guess in about a year they'll have what I want for the price I 
want...in the mean time I'm going to have to settle.




And

Mike Ashton wrote:
In such a small install not sure how much Gigabit your going to need, 
but if it is a concern take a look at the NetGear 24 port that 
TigerDirect has at CA$381. Is 24 10/100port, 12 w POE and 2 Gigabit 
coper plus 2 GBIC slots.


http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1697254&CatId=868

Also right now they have a special to get either a IPod Nano or a 
NetGear Storage Central( until Jun30 )


Chad Kempt wrote:
That looks not bad but once I get up near that price range I can get 
a Linksys SRW224P and propose the cost difference because of the 
gigabit + QOS etc etc; But I don't want to oversell.  I'm still 
wondering if maybe the three POE injectors from D-Link + a Linksys 5 
port or 8 port gigabit workgroup switch wouldn't be a more sound 
decision.


Thanks,
Chad

Mike Dancy wrote:

The trendnet also does the trick.
It's a bit more but a quality box.
http://www.trendnet.com/products/TPE-S88.htm
$299 CDN

and yes, I sell them.  So I may be biased.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: Mark Palser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 
2006 5:20 AM

To: Chad Kempt; biz@taug.ca
Subject: Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

Take a look at Netgear, they may have something, Mark.
- Original Message - From: "Chad Kempt" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)


Evening,

Just wondering if there is a more economical way to do POE in a SOHO 
environment (3 phones) other than using the D-Link DWL-P200 modules 
on each phone.  I was looking for low end POE enabled switches from 
Linksys and D-Link and didn't see any...before I go ahead and order 
the DWL-P200's does anyone know of a small 8 port POE switch in the 
$175-250 range that I overlooked, preferably with gigabit (wow I'm 
asking a lot for a little ;) ).


Thanks,
Chad


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St. Catharnies DID transfer

[Chad Kempt]

Hello All,

I have a virtual DID on my vonage account that I want to transfer to a 
asterisk friendly provider.  I was hoping Unlimitel could facilitate the 
transfer...but they can't.  Could I get some recommendations (preferably 
for a provider that supports IAX).


Thanks,
Chad

Dual mode (GSM/VOIP) Phone

[Chad Kempt]

Good evening,

 

Could anyone point me in the right direction of a good place to look to buy
a GSM/VOIP Phone that will work with my Rogers service and my asterisk box.


Thanks,
Chad

3com phones

[Chad Kempt]

Good Evening,

I need 3 3com phones for a customer, hopefully someone on this list is
vendor authorized and can help me out.

 

2x3101 Product #: 3C10401SPKRA

1x3102 Product #: 3C10402A

 

Contact me off list if you can help me out.

 

Thanks,
Chad Kempt

Fast Computers

1-888-855-7435

www.fastcomputers.ca 

 

3com routers

[Chad Kempt]

Good Evening,

We have a customer who has a VOIP solution in place and he is having  
QoS issues.  So we ordered him a couple 3com 3306 routers.   
Unfortunately everyone who works for me is a Cisco guy and the  
routers aren't quite as simple to setup as I had hoped.


If anyone on this list can quickly setup these routers on site for my  
customer with QoS + the VPN between his 2 offices connected through  
the DSL connection...please contact me off list.  I have all the  
details for the setup as he currently has 3com Office Connect  
routers, the big thing we went for here was proper QoS.  Keep in mind  
the 3306 doesn't have a web interface, it's a CLI so please only  
contact me if you have experience with this.  If it was a web gui I  
would of just set that up my self ;)  I just don't have time to read  
the 1500 page manual and learn the syntax.


The offices are outside Hamilton Ontario in some smaller towns,  
please send me your rate to come on site and do this in your email.   
It needs to get done soon but if we have to book a time in a week or  
two that is not a problem.  Or feel free to call me to discuss this  
if you would prefer that.


Thanks,
Chad Kempt
Fast Computers
1-888-855-7435
www.fastcomputers.ca

RE: [biz] VoIP company

[Chad Kempt]

You could try les.net but Stephen at Unlimitel usually replies to me pretty
promptly via email.  Did he miss your email or were you trying to call him
and couldn't get through?

Chad

-Original Message-
From: David LEWIS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: July 31, 2007 2:50 PM
To: biz@taug.ca
Subject: [biz] VoIP company

I have tried to get unlimitel but they are too busy to talk to me. Any other
recommended similar company which can give me DID's and Voip for Asterisk
(trixbox friendly please)


David


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