[LINK] Asterisk Linux PABX

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

 >malicious grin<
Well, nobody ever posted a Web page entitled "Failure stories", listing 
the people who gave up on a technology because it wasn't what they expected!

...Thanks for the reference!

On reflection, Asterix seems an ideal way for people to add dollar-value 
to OSS. For most punters, setting up any phone system is in the 'why 
bother?' basket, since most companies (that is, the huge number of 
companies which are SMEs) are accustomed to phones being >genuinely< 
plug-and-play (as opposed to how the computer industry imagines 
plug-and-play to be).

But a reseller should be able to preconfigure a system, sell it at a 
nice margin, and still come in with something cheaper than the PABX or 
key system. Especially since it hadn't dawned on me (my mistake) that 
you don't have to run IP phones on the back of the Asterix system ... 
this is an upside since you could create systems as a 'plug compatible' 
replacement for a current PABX with 'no new cabling, no new LAN'.

(Yes, I know that this is offensive on a religious basis, but it 
probably fits the mindset of a significant number of customers - there 
are more non-IT-savvy small retailers than there are IT shops.)

RC

Stephen Jenkin wrote:

>http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+recommendations
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>"There are carriers using Asterisk to terminate thousands of lines. NuFone
>has a data center with 80 Asterisk servers in place. These installations
>require a bit more engineering than the typical PBX server, but the system
>does scale to extremely large systems."
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>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Tom Worthington wrote:
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>>At 01:49 PM 12/21/2004, Jim Birch wrote:
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>>>Asterisk is an open source PABX that runs in a Linux box. ...
>>>http://www.asterisk.org/
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>>Should work okay, as Linux is a Unix clone and Unix was developed by a 
>>telephone company <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html>.  ;-)
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