[Mac-telephony-list] Does anyone have any experience conecting asterisk/openPBX to a PRI ?

[Edward Eigerman via List]

You see, this is one of the big problems with this whole area. There  
are two sets of geeks, linux geeks and telephone geeks, both of whom  
like to take the attitude:

"Is that good enough for you?? We have been doing VoIP of all flavors
since 1993 and proprietary telecom since 1985 so from a business
standpoint  I think I know what I am talking about."

No, it's really not good enough. The purpose of this list can't be for  
pundits to come out and say "My word is good enough!"

It's not good enough. In my opinion, the longer you've been doing  
telephony, the more FUD you throw out against Asterisk and the other  
OS projects. And your posts, both of them now, sound like FUD to me.  
And FUD is usually backed up with "Here's my resume, I know what I'm  
talking about."

Ed

On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:06 PM, John P Matznick via List wrote:

> As I stated Ed, in MY opinion, all of the Mac IP PBXs wether they are
> 1/2 way there or 90% there are not yet ready for real world people
> supporting a business. It is not yet "turn key" and to many opinions
> on how it should be done on the OS X.
> I am taking a wait and see approach to this. Linux based "turn Key"
> IP PBXs have been around for many many years and only get better.
> There are some really nice contingency and backup support for these
> systems now. I see 99.95% uptime on these.
> I would however watch out for those "turn key boxes" that limit
> extensions and have heavy licensing fees associated with them like
> TalkSwitch.
> Is that good enough for you?? We have been doing VoIP of all flavors
> since 1993 and proprietary telecom since 1985 so from a business
> standpoint  I think I know what I am talking about.
>
> Regards
> John P. Matznick
> President/CTO
> DataSatPlus LLC
> www.datasatplus.com - Communications... anytime, anywhere!!
> www.voipetc.com - VoIP Store for IP Phones, Gateways & Service
>
> sip:6432054 at sip.voipetc.com
> 888.643.2054 Voice.Fax   USA
> 0870.340.3292 Voice UK
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Edward Eigerman via List wrote:
>
>> Could you go into more specifics about why you hold those opinions?  
>> It
>> would be helpful to us all. Or was that just an advertisement?
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:46 PM, John P Matznick via List wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Mark and anyone else doing the same thing. I personally do not
>>> run or recommend running Mac PBXs for business use yet. It is not
>>> ready for prime time and the support is not yet there.
>>> I do however have a couple solid Linux based IP PBXs available with
>>> unlimited SIP extension capability plus the long term support. You
>>> may use any combination of SIP based IP phones of your choosing as
>>> well as T1 connections or straight VoIP connections for PSTN
>>> terminated calls. Contact me offline on this.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> John P. Matznick
>>> President/CTO
>>> DataSatPlus LLC
>>> www.datasatplus.com - Communications... anytime, anywhere!!
>>> www.voipetc.com - VoIP Store for IP Phones, Gateways & Service
>>>
>>> sip:6432054 at sip.voipetc.com
>>> 888.643.2054 Voice.Fax   USA
>>> 0870.340.3292 Voice UK
>>>
>>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Mark Engelhardt via List wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We are considering deploying the following setup:
>>>>
>>>> G5 Xserver running openPBX RC2
>>>> 25 Cisco 7960 IP phones
>>>> 10 Cisco 7912 IP Phones
>>>> 1  Cisco 2600 router with a High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV)
>>>> installed connected to a Telco PRI.
>>>>
>>>> The above system would replace 13 copper pair analog lines  
>>>> connected
>>>> to an Avaya Magix system.
>>>>
>>>> Questions:
>>>>   1) Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup?
>>>>   2) Is the cisco High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV) recommended  
>>>> for
>>>> this?
>>>>   3) What other PRI gateway do you recommend?
>>>>   4) Are you available for hire to help configure this setup in  
>>>> mid-
>>>> january?
>>>>      You can reply to the above question off list:  marke at
>>>> smalldog.com
>>>>   5) Should I scrap the mac idea and run asterisk with a Digium
>>>> Wildcard TE110P on a PC linux box.?
>>>>
>>>> Mark Engelhardt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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