asterisk users - Jun 2003 - Asterisk against 3 Com NBX 100 and Siemens HiPath 3700/3750

My new company is going to enter a bid competing with 3Com and Siemens 
solutions from others.

Voice service is a PRI T-1 with a block of 100 DID numbers, a second T1 that 
will carry Integrated voice/data, 12 voice/768K for redundency.

I asked this a week or two ago, now I have more details.

Best/$ channel banks that work with Asterisk and Best deal on phones...  16 
business, 34 basic IP phones, attendant console?

Think we can beat 3Com and Siemens???

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Mark,

My experience with Siemens is that they are very expensive.  Both units 
have a "name " in the industry.  Your solution is
"different".  Your
competition will beat the hell out of that fact your different, don't have 
backing, blah, blah, blah.  Now you need to sell the concept that there are 
more people working on design and programming for your solution than 
theirs(continuing design which is easily implemented).  Your package 
"includes" Voice mail.  Don't split it out.  The others have it as
an
additional component.  Sell the benefits.  Ask people here for working 
solutions that your customer may call upon for a "warm fuzzy" before
they
purchase your solution.  <snip>Think we can beat 3Com and 
Siemens???<snip>  Forget about them, the concept of Asterisk needs to be 
sold to the customer before you can sell the telephone system to the 
customer.

As far as the component questions below there are far more qualified people 
here to answer those questions.

Good Luck and let us know the outcome.

Bill

At 07:07 PM 6/30/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>My new company is going to enter a bid competing with 3Com and Siemens
>solutions from others.
>
>Voice service is a PRI T-1 with a block of 100 DID numbers, a second T1 that
>will carry Integrated voice/data, 12 voice/768K for redundency.
>
>I asked this a week or two ago, now I have more details.
>
>Best/$ channel banks that work with Asterisk and Best deal on phones...  16
>business, 34 basic IP phones, attendant console?
>
>Think we can beat 3Com and Siemens???
>
>--
>Mark Street, D.C.
>Red Hat Certified Engineer
>Cert# 807302251406074
>--
>Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E  2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0
>GPG key http://www.streetchiro.com/pubkey.asc
>
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