New Phone System
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@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
get a phone system that can take PRI/T1 DirectlyI did think about that. What system would you suggest?
Basically any Asterisk based system will accept a PRI card and be able to receive and send calls over it. So building your own would be viable.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
he is referring to PRI gateway,
A PRI Gateway isn't a requirement though. There are plenty of phone systems that will take PRIs directly. Our you can build your own with a PRI Card.
yes of course, but i consider him having an IP PBX computer based not a specific IP PBX (avaya for example) because he mentioned before that he tried 3CX which is an IP PBX computer based
Yes, but that still does not imply a PRI gateway is needed, that is the most expensive option and is usually not the way to go unless you need to pull the PRI over SIP to multiple phone systems/devices.
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in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
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@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
If you're just doing that get a SIP Trunk and save even more money. For the price of the gateway you could have two SIP trunks from different providers to fail back to if need be.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
If you're just doing that get a SIP Trunk and save even more money. For the price of the gateway you could have two SIP trunks from different providers to fail back to if need be.
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
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@thecreativeone91 said:
How many phones do you have? $5,000 is going to be tight.
Might have to wait until 2016 until we get a new budget.
50 Phones
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
If you're just doing that get a SIP Trunk and save even more money. For the price of the gateway you could have two SIP trunks from different providers to fail back to if need be.
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
For 4 simultaneous calls even ADSL would be viable (depending on his jitter rate).
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@IT-ADMIN said:
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
10 up 10 down
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@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
How many phones do you have? $5,000 is going to be tight.
Might have to wait until 2016 until we get a new budget.
50 Phones
Yep... that is going to be all of your budget right there.... can you start the project now?
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@anonymous said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
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so your connection is great, but keep in mind the failover, if your internet connection go down your phone system will be down also
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@anonymous said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
10 up 10 down
That is what we started with. It worked well. How reliable is this connection? Does it go down often?
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for this reason personally i will never rely on the internet connection for my phone system
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
If you're just doing that get a SIP Trunk and save even more money. For the price of the gateway you could have two SIP trunks from different providers to fail back to if need be.
That's what I'd say. Get a SIP Trunk and be done with it. Otherwise get a PRI Card.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
A Quality FXO gateway will cost as much as a PRI card.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
for this reason personally i will never rely on the internet connection for my phone system
Is the cost of being down equal to the yearly cost of a PRI? I don't know that would be a question for @anonymous.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
in my opinion since your budget is only 5K, you can use PSTN gateway as i described before and cancel your PRI line because you need only 4 simultaneous calls,
A Quality FXO gateway will cost as much as a PRI card.
If I remember correctly you can also get FXO cards that will do the same thing. Still probably around the same price.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@anonymous said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but the SIP trunk is related to his internet connection, so we need to ask him about his bandwidth
10 up 10 down
so your connection is great, but keep in mind the failover, if your internet connection go down your phone system will be down also
And if your PRI provider goes down you go down. we have 2,000+ simultaneous calls normally and are almost all SIP based at least on the upstream side, not all desk phones are VoIP yet. SIP doesn't stop you from having fail over.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
for this reason personally i will never rely on the internet connection for my phone system
Is the cost of being down equal to the yearly cost of a PRI? I don't know that would be a question for @anonymous.
yes, for us we have a call center, if the phone system is down only for short period of time that would be a real disaster
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
for this reason personally i will never rely on the internet connection for my phone system
Is the cost of being down equal to the yearly cost of a PRI? I don't know that would be a question for @anonymous.
yes, for us we have a call center, if the phone system is down only for short period of time that would be a real disaster
Got it... are you in an area with a single ISP?
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@IT-ADMIN said:
yes, for us we have a call center, if the phone system is down only for short period of time that would be a real disaster
You can get failover SIP connections and use two internet connections. We even failover our DIDs.
The cost is still cheaper than PRIs.
