New Phone System
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@coliver said:
@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
What part are you referring to that's so expensive?
Looks like PRI Gateways are 2K
Why do you need a PRI Gateway? Look into Sangoma PRI cards (http://www.sangoma.com/telecom-interface-cards/digital-voice-and-data-boards/) they do an amazing job... the only downside is that you will need to do a physical server to host the phone system.
You might be able to do a PCIE passthrough
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he is referring to PRI gateway,
yes it is true, PRI gateway are quiet expensive, however if you have 4 POTS line you can buy a PSTN gateway (4 fxo ports) and plug it ethernet port to your IP PBX (3CX, Ozeki XE, Elastix...), in this stage you can make internal ip calls and external calls (in this scenario you can receive up to 4 simultaneous calls and dial up to 4 simultaneous calls )hope that will give you some glimpse
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
What part are you referring to that's so expensive?
Looks like PRI Gateways are 2K
Why do you need a PRI Gateway? Look into Sangoma PRI cards (http://www.sangoma.com/telecom-interface-cards/digital-voice-and-data-boards/) they do an amazing job... the only downside is that you will need to do a physical server to host the phone system.
You might be able to do a PCIE passthrough
True. Although Hyper-V doesn't support it yet and Xen can be a bit of a chore. VMware would be the only viable option for this.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
get a phone system that can take PRI/T1 DirectlyI did think about that. What system would you suggest?
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@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.
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@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
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Well you could put a Digium 1TE131F Computer It should be under $500 for a single PRI. How many phones do you have? $5,000 is going to be tight.
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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
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
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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.
