Comments on: What happened to VoIP? http://www.antoniegeerts.com/what-happened-to-voip/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:51:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Antonie Geerts http://www.antoniegeerts.com/what-happened-to-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Antonie Geerts Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:52:24 +0000 http://blog.antoniegeerts.com/?p=45#comment-52 Hey Alessonadro, Thanks for your comment and just to let you know I've implemented a huge VoIP network crossing over 6 countries with nearly 500 Grandstream VoIP phones. It is a setup of 6 Asterisk PBX Systems (all DELL 1950 with Redhat ES5 and asterisk 1.4) and various local telcos (Eircom , Fastweb, France telecom ,BT) for the different countries. The system has been designed to fall over on to each other (in case of emergencies of telco's) and all calls internal are VoIP and least cost routing is in place using the systems. The Cost per PBX was around 2500 euro... Now I don't think the biggest competitors can do it cheaper with the same functionality (Unlimited: mailboxes, conference rooms, sip2mobile, voicemail 2 email , hunt groups , call reporting , failover , least cost routing etc etc) But you are right it takes some very specialized people :-) Hey Alessonadro,

Thanks for your comment and just to let you know I’ve implemented a huge VoIP network crossing over 6 countries with nearly 500 Grandstream VoIP phones. It is a setup of 6 Asterisk PBX Systems (all DELL 1950 with Redhat ES5 and asterisk 1.4) and various local telcos (Eircom , Fastweb, France telecom ,BT) for the different countries. The system has been designed to fall over on to each other (in case of emergencies of telco’s) and all calls internal are VoIP and least cost routing is in place using the systems.

The Cost per PBX was around 2500 euro…

Now I don’t think the biggest competitors can do it cheaper with the same functionality (Unlimited: mailboxes, conference rooms, sip2mobile, voicemail 2 email , hunt groups , call reporting , failover , least cost routing etc etc)

But you are right it takes some very specialized people :-)

]]> By: Alessandro Giustiniani http://www.antoniegeerts.com/what-happened-to-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Alessandro Giustiniani Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:30:19 +0000 http://blog.antoniegeerts.com/?p=45#comment-51 Hi antonie (or Tommy as I am used to call you:), I'm working for Avaya and studing Cisco (CCNP) at the moment. As you know for sure, they are the two biggest competitors of Asterisk at the moment.... The main problem that is taking enterprises from migrating completely to VOIP is surely the existing PBX infrastructure that costed loads of $$$$$ to implement, will you forklift something like that to spend more money and migrate completely to VOIP?? The PBX support require very specialized people that is normally not very Network oriented, and expensive for a company but this is not enought at the moment. The result is that many enterprises are migrating to VOIP using phase 1 migration (that is connect the PBX's to the network infrastructure creating an hibrid enviroment)...... Is there a similar solution for Asterix? As far as I am aware anyway, the phase 2 (that is to build a complete VOIP system) is used in new networks where to buy a PBX system does not result in good investment anymore. Regards Ale Hi antonie (or Tommy as I am used to call you:),
I’m working for Avaya and studing Cisco (CCNP) at the moment.
As you know for sure, they are the two biggest competitors of Asterisk at the moment….
The main problem that is taking enterprises from migrating completely to VOIP is surely the existing PBX infrastructure that costed loads of $$$$$ to implement, will you forklift something like that to spend more money and migrate completely to VOIP??
The PBX support require very specialized people that is normally not very Network oriented, and expensive for a company but this is not enought at the moment.
The result is that many enterprises are migrating to VOIP using phase 1 migration (that is connect the PBX’s to the network infrastructure creating an hibrid enviroment)…… Is there a similar solution for Asterix?
As far as I am aware anyway, the phase 2 (that is to build a complete VOIP system) is used in new networks where to buy a PBX system does not result in good investment anymore.
Regards
Ale

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