Can you elaborate?
Are you looking for people local to southwest US or anywhere in North
America?
From: bob murphy [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:04 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-biz] (((Implementation Engineer/Consultants Wa
I find it odd you managed to get your interrupt issues resolved in ANY
manner.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Capp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:42 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium Support Compari
Didn't Mark Spencer recently criticize Fonality's Hosted business model?
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From: Danny Froberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:37 AM
To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-biz] "Whats New at Digium the Asterisk Company"
Oh yay.
collateral. This means we do not get the messages
out in the mind of the users/buyers. Currently all our businesses exist in
isolation.
Regards
Mark
On 10/16/07, shadowym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Like a lot of techies, I'm strong on the technical stuff but weak on
marketing/sales.
Like a lot of techies, I'm strong on the technical stuff but weak on
marketing/sales. I'm sure there are a LOT of people who could benefit from
a sales/marketing wiki or forum or whatever for sharing ideas/marketing
material etc.
From: bob murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, Octobe
Here is the link.
http://www.paetec.com/media/press_releases.html#-%20PAETEC%20Holding%20Corp.
%20to%20Acquire%20Allworx%20Corp.
Only 25mil! I would have thought Allworx was worth more than that. They
must have been hurting.
I am curious what is going on here with all this consolidation? 3Com,
n the
end, a business-oriented Asterisk PBX system depends on the ability to
flexibly integrate this type of functionality.
-- Alex
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, shadowym wrote:
> The Xbox is just a PC running gaming software for the consumer market.
They
> have remained committed to it for years and l
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<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
Indeed. We should all so be so lucky as to have an R&D budget 1/128th of
that size. I've got lots of stuff I'd like to throw at the wall. I'm
sure you do too.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, shadowym wrote:
> I agree,
>
ld all so be so lucky as to have an R&D budget 1/128th of
that size. I've got lots of stuff I'd like to throw at the wall. I'm
sure you do too.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, shadowym wrote:
> I agree,
>
> M$ is a blaster company. They blast the wall with all sorts of stu
I agree,
M$ is a blaster company. They blast the wall with all sorts of stuff to see
what sticks and if nothing much happens after a year or two they move on.
The farther away they are from their core competency the less likey they
will remain committed to making a good product and sticking with
Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:54 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??
You have it flipped shadowym, it's the small businesses with a few lines
that a screaming for SLA to work with Ast
> Once they get used to it, it becomes second hat.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>>
>>
>> Tim Booth wrote:
>>
>>> You have it flipped shadowym, it's the small businesses with a few lines
>>> that a screaming for SLA to work with Asteri
truck roll), and all that other goodness. Sell them on quick
ROI due to increased productivity and reduced cost of ownership.
On a rare occasion, they will not bite and you should have a backup key
system unless you make the business decision not to offer those types of
systems.
Thanks,
Steve
Only if people WANT it which is the critical point you seem to be missing.
Yes, SLA does not scale but a business with only a few lines doesn't care.
They just want it. There is also SCA which DOES scale and is used all the
time by large organizations to group extensions. Not the same as call que
home work before you open
you mouth and more stupid comments flows to your keyboard.
shadowym wrote:
> So in those 30 years have they managed to find magic fair dust that allows
> them to make a phone system for next to nothing equivalent in quality to
> Asterisk/Cisco etc.?
>
> P
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From: Tim Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:08 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??
oooh...what was I thinking, Vodavi has only been around for 30 years.
shadowym wrote:
> At $300 I'm
s $115 each.
Do the math it's less than an Asterisk server, just doesn't have all the
other bells and whistles. Most small business don't use those other
bells and whistles anyway.
I sell both Asterisk solutions and key system, the key systems are not
going are not going away a
excitement over it has waned.
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From: Henry L.Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:27 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??
Shadowym...You must have led a sheltered life.
--
Henry L
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shadowym
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:03 PM
To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??
Some interesting product announcements lately. Priced to pretty much kill
the tra
Some interesting product announcements lately. Priced to pretty much kill
the traditional KSU market if people can get past the whole SLA thing or
lack of it in the case of Asterisk.
The 8FXO port model is under $900US.
http://www.xorcom.com/products/xr1000
http://www.pikatechnologies.com/produc
power strip along with a KVM/IP would seems to have all of the
features of a true llight out managment solution. Dell has DRAC and Compaq
used to be called InSight cards. I don't knwo what HP/Compaq
calls them now.
alabun
shadowym wrote:
>That would be a KVM over IP. They are still
That would be a KVM over IP. They are still kind of pricey but Supermicro
has a card that works with some of their boards that is inexpensive but a
separate KVM over IP is a better solution if you can afford it IMHO.
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From: Julian Lyndon-Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finally!
I have been waiting for something like this.
http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/p_a101-specs
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Yawn,
You STILL have to reboot M$ servers once in awhile and malware + 5 nines
reliablility are not mutually exclusive either.
Call me a naysayer but yea, M$ will NOT get this right either. They have
been dabbling with VoIP for years so all the stuff they are doing now is
nothing new, just a
Ahhh, but Asterisk and open source telephony in general is quite uncommon by
historical standards.
You are applying the traditional proprietary telephony hardware model to
open source, open standards telephony.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin P. Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: T
The difference is that Cisco could drag this out in the courts indefinitely
as they probably have more cash than Verizon.
I could see those Verizon patents made invalid if they went after someone
with enough money to fight it.
The bottom line is that Verizon wants to hurt and/or kill ITSP's bef
Yes!
Verizon should have never been granted those patents in the first place
IMHO. Kind of like owning a patent to make toast!
Don't know if they could go after Asterisk but it sounds like they could go
after just about any ITSP.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Brecher [mailto:[EMAIL P
This site has a comparison chart which includes Asterisk Business Edition,
Fonality, SwitchVOX as well as proprietary solutions. It's not exactly
apples to apples and I question the prices they came up with but it's the
best I've found so far. They have 2 or 3 other comparison charts and some
goo
It is from Octasic and uses the same algorithms as their hardware echo
canceller. I haven't tried it but I do use their hardware echo canceller
which does an OUTSTANDING job on the Sangoma A200D card.
I would be interested to hear from anyone who has done a side by side
comparison to the HPEC SWE
So you prefer IRQ and sound quality issues to "the extra hassle of the
driver installation for a Sangoma card"?
-Original Message-
From: Remco Barendse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:31 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [as
Good points all around and healthy discussion IMHO.
I have found in my 2 years of working with Asterisk and open source in
general is you have to approach it a bit differently than commercial closed
source stuff. You gotta put in the time to throughly test a specific
version to make sure it does
Would you rather use Microsoft?
It's damn stable for 95% of people including me. No memory leaks, no bugs I
have seen.
I'm not a coder but the fact it is open source makes everything more
transparent so you have visibility into everything that is going on. That
make it seem like it is more bu
Anyone interested in my Aastra 9133i SIP phone?
$135US +shipping from Canada.
Like new with all original packaging. I only used it for testing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:25 A
ssion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Fanless solution
If you get a real price for that configuration, please let us know on the
list... That is a very attractive machine...
K.
On 2/14/07, shadowym < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a compact fanless solution
Hi there,
I'm looking for a compact fanless solution preferrably wall mountable and
not too exotic. It needs to be commercial grade. I don't really consider
most of the Via ITX solutions I have seen commercial grade but perhaps
someone can convince me otherwise.
This solution is about the
Check them out!
I have no affiliation with the site. It's the only one I found so far that
lists the phones. No affiliation with Aastra other than the fact I love
their SIP phones and use them on all my Asterisk projects.
http://var.abptech.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.2527/.f
___
If you have a choice, separate cabling is better than trying to mess around
with a Vlan/QoS switch IMHO. Remember the golden rule, KISS!
Do any of these 2 port phones do QoS where they would prioritize their own
traffic over traffic on their downstream port? If so how well does it work
if your,
I have to whole heartedly agree.
I just don't understand why people would use Fedora when they have CentOS.
It's a complete mystery to me.
Btw: I'm using Asterisk 1.2.13 on CentOS 4.4 and it's rock solid. Over 3
months of uptime now.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Hammett [mailto:[EMAIL
I always thought a simple message board would work well for this but what do
I know.
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From: Dovid Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:44 AM
To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-biz] OT: Client Management
Hello List,
Does anyone know of a
ur way.
I do have another site (smaller, only 100+ DIDs and about 30 IP Phones) for
the same customer in another city, since May... not a single issue!
Carlos
LSL
==
shadowym wrote:
> Wow, 4 days of uptime. Quite a testimonial!
>
> But seriously, I have nothing against Trixbox as i
.. :)
I wonder why then MANY MANY people do abandon Trixbox in favour of fully
supported, designed from ground up for the purpose and timely updated
commercial solutions like PBXware?
Senad
>
>
> Tim Booth wrote:
>> shadowym wrote:
>>> Henry,
>>>
>&g
Henry,
No argument from me about price/competitiveness etc. I can't agree with you
on using Trixbox and Grandstream phones on consumer grade PC's though! That
is NOT the right solution for even a semi serious small business IMHO.
Commercial grade (ie. Supermicro) PC's and something like an Aast
Yikes!
Asking that sort of question around here might get you cyberlynched!
I might as well say the same thing everyone else will. Why? Asterisk does
everything the proprietary hardware ones do and then some and usually does
it better.
Depends on what you need it for as well. For a small bu
The new firmware is on the Aastra website.
Key highlights of the new software include
Local redundancy support for proxy and registrar server
Auto-discovery of configuration server
Dial plan enhancement
New XML objects and event-triggered XML applicat
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:25 -0800, shadowym wrote:
> I am simply stating that Enterprise class equipment is generally
> mean't for people who don't really
Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?
shadowym wrote:
> If you need to ask the price you can't afford it. I'm sure their
> stuff is nice but Enterprise class equipment and pricing is just that.
>
> -Original Message-
> From:
need that.
>
> There ya go, one box fixes all.
>
>
>
> On 10/30/06, *Ron Wellsted* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> shadowym wrote:
> > If you don
le of pots
lines available and let them use those when VoIP is iffy, otherwise they are
able to take complete advantage of low cost long distance, or even free LD
if making calls between IP PBX systems.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
>From: "shadowym" <[EMAIL PROT
Almost is ok for some things. A business phone is not one of them.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Hammett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] New Broad
What do you mean by QoS?
The ONLY reliable ITSP service is one that is able to offer end to end QoS.
In other words, TDM circuits so your basically back to using the PSTN again.
An internet connection that is geographically near to(therefore few hops)the
PSTN connection is ok for some but it will
If you don't have full control of the network from end to end (or have
someone do that for you), it will never be a reliable solution in my humble
opinion. People are getting away with it in some cases but the bottom line
is they cannot guarantee quality of service.
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Fr
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Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 12:25 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] New Device
On 16/09/06, shadowym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not as far as I can tell. Looks like it's only going to be part of
> Asterisk
Re: [asterisk-biz] New Device
>
> On 16/09/06, shadowym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Not as far as I can tell. Looks like it's only going to be part of
Asterisk
> > Business Edition.
> >
> > Sure, they will throw some scraps to the masses so it get
Not as far as I can tell. Looks like it's only going to be part of Asterisk
Business Edition.
Sure, they will throw some scraps to the masses so it get's well tested at
very little cost to them. Looks like they are definitely moving away from
open source though.
-Original Message-
From
As far as I can tell, they only plan to 'sell' this as part
of Asterisk Business Edition. Sounds like you have to buy Asterisk
Business Edition when you buy that new Asterisk Appliance as
well.
So basically it looks like wide open source Asterisk as we
know it is over. The only open sour
Try this site.
It's a great place to hook up with Chinese Manufacturers and source OEM
equipment.
http://www.alibaba.com/
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the above site what so ever.
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September
Cool product!
So does anyone know what the echo cancellation is like? It says G168 but
that does not give any indication of quality. If it is basically a 4 port
version of the SPA3000 internally then that tells me all I need to know.
Where does this stand with respect to an Asterisk server wi
I would be VERY cautions about being and IP to IP
middleman. Any problems with your ISP or your wholesale providers
ISP OR your wholesale providers connection to the phone network
which could be yet another company. Your gonna get grey hair
and a LOT of unhappy customers REAL fast if any
And..I would add, you need VoIP knowledge/experience
which has some unique characteristics/challenges that traditional telephony does
not.
There are some technical benefits in addition to bottom
line benefits to doing it in house. I would suggest you get different
opinions on this and
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Totaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 4:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
> Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Reliable GUI for Asterisk (don't
> mentionFreePBXplease)
>
> [EMAIL
ot;complete PBX" am I not understanding???
> -Original Message-
> From: Rehan AllahWala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 8:25 PM
> To: shadowym
> Cc: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Reliable GUI for Asterisk
And WHAT does this have to do with standalone GUI. Do you understand
English? If so do you understand Asterisk or are you just a SPAMmer!
> -Original Message-
> From: Rehan AllahWala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:22 AM
> To: shadowym
> C
What does this have to do with a standalone Asterisk GUI!!!
> -Original Message-
> From: Rehan AllahWala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:49 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Reliable GUI for Asterisk (
Hi there,
Seems everyone and their dog has decided to start their own phone company
these days. I went through all the companies listed on the voip wiki in my
general geographical area regarding IAX connectivity and none of them got
back to me. Others had already changed their name or the webs
You spelled "afforAdable" wrong.
You say you have coverage everywhere when in fact you have coverage in very
few areas. Over promising and under delivering is NOT a good start IMHO.
> -Original Message-
> From: Tim Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:41 AM
like
> grandstream or the like, because some of us can't affort a
> 150-300 phone. Unless you're the big-chief and the company
> pays you an executive phone.
> BTW snom 300 can pass as executive phones down here.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> On 7/6/06, shadowym
While * may not be low end, * on a Dell Dimension or (insert your favorite
budget PC here) with X100P cards or cheap ATA's or cheap ? Using Grandstream
phones or (insert your favorite budget SIP phone here) certainly is low end.
There are MANY people on this list doing exactly that! That is what
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