RE: Hosted VoIP recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Jay Dale 
8x8 and SKL are two I recommend.

www.8x8.com<http://www.8x8.com>

http://www.sklservices.com/



Jay Dale
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From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:02 PM
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Subject: RE: Hosted VoIP recommendations

I have been told Velocity is top notch.  No personal experience though.  Most 
of the big telecom vendors have released IP/PBX solutions and most of pretty 
reasonably priced.

Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/>
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax

From: E. Peeters [mailto:ml2...@ibarras.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hosted VoIP recommendations

Hello gang,

We have a production facility with a small office that we are looking at hosted 
VoIP for. Voice/data contracts are up for renewal and the PBX is sufficiently 
outdated that it is no longer supported by the manufacturers (nor are the 
handsets) so an all-in-one VoIP solution seems like s good bet.

We'd probably end up with 10 handsets.

I'm partial to Speakeasy/Megapath because I have been a customer of both in the 
past and pretty happy with their data service, but I've also looked at 8x8, 
TelCentris and Velocity.

Am I missing a big fish? Any comment on the suppliers above (or any other we 
should look at) much appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric Peeters
Ibarra's

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RE: Hosted VoIP recommendations

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Desmond 
Take a look at Vitelity.

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Brian Desmond
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From: E. Peeters [mailto:ml2...@ibarras.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hosted VoIP recommendations

Hello gang,

We have a production facility with a small office that we are looking at hosted 
VoIP for. Voice/data contracts are up for renewal and the PBX is sufficiently 
outdated that it is no longer supported by the manufacturers (nor are the 
handsets) so an all-in-one VoIP solution seems like s good bet.

We'd probably end up with 10 handsets.

I'm partial to Speakeasy/Megapath because I have been a customer of both in the 
past and pretty happy with their data service, but I've also looked at 8x8, 
TelCentris and Velocity.

Am I missing a big fish? Any comment on the suppliers above (or any other we 
should look at) much appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric Peeters
Ibarra's

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Re: Hosted VoIP recommendations

2010-12-07 Thread Kramer, Jack 
Are you sold on hosted versus a low-cost deployment in house? I use Vitelity 
for call termination ($1.50/month for a DID and 1.5 cents per minute avg.) and 
host my handsets off of a system running Asterisk on Debian 5.1 with FreePBX as 
a frontend. (This is for my personal phone system and not the University.) If 
you're interested in doing something similar I can forward you specs and 
instructions on how to get everything running. You can also purchase relatively 
low-cost hardware from Digium – their Switchvox line is Asterisk-based (they're 
the maintainers for Asterisk) and is very configurable and easy to deploy.

For handsets I've always preferred Polycom hardware – the speakerphones are 
superb – but you can use just about any SIP-compatible hardware or software to 
do the job. If you wanted to go very cheap you could just buy everyone a USB 
headset and use softphone clients to handle calls. Considering how low 
Asterisk's hardware requirements are you could do a whole system in house for 
about $2,000 – 10 Polycom handsets, an Intel Atom-based server (an Atom 330 or 
550 CPU is a good choice being dual-core) with say 160GB of HDD space and 4GB 
ram, and even a conference room phone if you wanted. Vendors like voipsuppy.com 
have 10-pack bundles available and also pretty good prices on the single desk 
handsets. A client of mine runs a law office, with multiple locations, off of a 
similar setup.

Happy to help if this is a route that interests you.

Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 18:18:06 -0500
To: NT System Admin Issues 
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Subject: Hosted VoIP recommendations

Hello gang,

We have a production facility with a small office that we are looking at hosted 
VoIP for. Voice/data contracts are up for renewal and the PBX is sufficiently 
outdated that it is no longer supported by the manufacturers (nor are the 
handsets) so an all-in-one VoIP solution seems like s good bet.

We'd probably end up with 10 handsets.

I'm partial to Speakeasy/Megapath because I have been a customer of both in the 
past and pretty happy with their data service, but I've also looked at 8x8, 
TelCentris and Velocity.

Am I missing a big fish? Any comment on the suppliers above (or any other we 
should look at) much appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric Peeters
Ibarra's

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RE: Hosted VoIP recommendations

2010-12-06 Thread greg.sweers 
I have been told Velocity is top notch.  No personal experience though.  Most 
of the big telecom vendors have released IP/PBX solutions and most of pretty 
reasonably priced.

Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax

From: E. Peeters [mailto:ml2...@ibarras.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hosted VoIP recommendations

Hello gang,

We have a production facility with a small office that we are looking at hosted 
VoIP for. Voice/data contracts are up for renewal and the PBX is sufficiently 
outdated that it is no longer supported by the manufacturers (nor are the 
handsets) so an all-in-one VoIP solution seems like s good bet.

We'd probably end up with 10 handsets.

I'm partial to Speakeasy/Megapath because I have been a customer of both in the 
past and pretty happy with their data service, but I've also looked at 8x8, 
TelCentris and Velocity.

Am I missing a big fish? Any comment on the suppliers above (or any other we 
should look at) much appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric Peeters
Ibarra's

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