I do know what you're saying about the need to know who all uses Asterisk
is important. It may not be a bad idea to get a definitive list together
at some point in the future so that anyone that's trying to get approval
can sit down and show a list of successful deployments. Guess in time
this may happen :)
I can't really say for sure what the City of Baytown uses. I know the
city of Hunstville uses CCM for their phones, which is kinda amusing since
most of their buildings are connected over wireless, making phone calls a
pain.
On campus, we already have about 1300 Cisco's deployed on a CCM, so those
are going to be a quick shot over to Asterisk since provisioning from one
to the other is fairly simple. The rest of the phones, I think we decided
we're going to drop Cisco 7940's into dorms since they're simple, they
don't need much, and we know they work for what we need them to do. Right
now I'm in the midst of research phones for the rest of campus, Polycom
has impressed me so far, so I'm hoping to be able to push that for campus.
Aaron
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
I'm sure the question about who uses Asterisk comes up a lot, but to me,
that's something important to help the adoption of Asterisk. It's nice to
see others that are using it. It always helps when you are presenting it to
clients if you can let them know who else uses it. And, Aaron, to me,
seeing as I'm from Texas, the fact that SHSU is using it means a lot, and
this will mean a lot to my clients as well. I was recently in a meeting at
the City of Baytown and saw that they use Cisco phones. I'm not sure if
they are using Cisco Call Manager or not.
And Aaron, thanks for the info. I can understand the cost factor. What
phones are you switching to?
Thanks!
Lacy
On 3/23/06, Aaron Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 1300 phones we're moving over in the next two months are being moved
off of cisco. The reason we're moving them over is a) cost and b)
security. From the cost perspective, we're paying a yearly license fee
for the servers themselves, as well as a per phone license for both the
connection to the call manager and the voicemail. Also, with the cisco
system, we've had to isolate the entire voice network since cisco only
allows "approved" windows updates on their system. With Asterisk, TCO is
much lower, the only yearly price they have to pay is the one that goes in
my pocket, and no licensing fees per phone. Win/Win if you ask me :)
Aaron
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
Just out of curiosity what was the reasons for migrating off of
Cisco? This
is interesting since I've run across people who swear by Cisco, but the
costs involved are just too unreasonable for me.
On 3/23/06, Gary Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm currently 1 PRI with 25 phones. We'll be 2 PRI's and over 100
phones by mid summer. We're currently 5 DID's, but I'm pretty sure
we'll be around 50 when were done.
We're currently migrating off of a cisco call manager. I recommend
going slow with your transition -- do a chunk of phones, wait a week
or two before doing more. Asterisk excels at interoping with other
systems; take advantage of this.
Thanks.
On 3/22/06, QUICK, RANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies using
Asterisk
and
how many DIDs you have. I have built a small system and tested it
with
AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly. I go in front of my
Management
Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable
solution. We
are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of 1700
phones. Any
info you have would be a huge help when they ask who else is using it.
Thanks in advance!
Randy Quick
Communications Technician II
Texoma Healthcare Systems
903.416.4398
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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