The company I work for is looking at vendors for a PBX, one of the requirements is VoIP. I have been sitting there listening to people pitch very proprietary implementations of VoIP where you are locked in to their hardware, their interface... I know a little bit about asterisk (set up a couple offices with it... run it at home...) and would like to pitch it to this company. Does someone have a decent presentation that I could use as a starting point? Basically I am looking for a "business" oriented (not too technical) overview of asterisk, or "asterisk for suits". any help would be appreciated. Sean
http://www.millenigence.com/articles/asterisk-non-technical-review.pdf> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of > Sean Cook > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:10 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk > > The company I work for is looking at vendors for a PBX, one > of the requirements is VoIP. I have been sitting there > listening to people pitch very proprietary implementations of > VoIP where you are locked in to their hardware, their interface... > > I know a little bit about asterisk (set up a couple offices with it... > run it at home...) and would like to pitch it to this > company. Does someone have a decent presentation that I > could use as a starting point? > Basically I am looking for a "business" oriented (not too > technical) overview of asterisk, or "asterisk for suits". > > any help would be appreciated. > > Sean > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Ref: Message: 10 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:31:04 -0700 From: "Damon Estep" <damon@suburbanbroadband.net> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk http://www.millenigence.com/articles/asterisk-non-technical-review.pdf Be careful about the last few paragraphs of this PDF, if possible, before this paper is provided to any members of "upper management", the lines that will ring the most bells' are, and I am quoting here " Performance of Asterisk has not been explored much. While the claim is that Asterisk can scale well, there is no test data showing that Asterisk can support large number of users without performance penalty. There is no easy way to cluster Asterisk installations to scale up and match the performance of legacy PBX systems". I would highly recommend drawing a diagram up in place of that paragraph and showing how multiple Asterisk servers in a communication rack, connected to their own 10/100/1000 Mbps VLAN can be aggregated to provide thousands of H.323, SIP or IAX call processing, provided that each desktop is connected via a IP telephone such as http://ipphone.eezeephone.com/index_files/Page640.htm, but there are plenty of other such devices on the internet that may do the job of "data + telephony". I would actually suggest that while test data is not available, at least some of the commercial users of Asterisk should be honest and provide voluntary data about their large scale implementations or if Digium knows, they can do a customer survey (i.e., how many Apache's are in use) and report the summary results per annum to measure the growth/adoption rate. -samudra --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.804 / Virus Database: 546 - Release Date: 12/2/2004
Sean Cook wrote:> The company I work for is looking at vendors for a PBX, one of the > requirements is VoIP. I have been sitting there listening to people > pitch very proprietary implementations of VoIP where you are locked in > to their hardware, their interface... > > I know a little bit about asterisk (set up a couple offices with it... > run it at home...) and would like to pitch it to this company. Does > someone have a decent presentation that I could use as a starting point? > Basically I am looking for a "business" oriented (not too technical) > overview of asterisk, or "asterisk for suits".http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/VCORE/Publications/mark_spencer/mark.smil A presentation by Mark Spencer that discusses the Business and Technical Details of Asterisk. Regards, -- Jason Becker Director & CEO Coalescent Systems Inc. 403.244.8089 www.coalescentsystems.ca
Dear group members, Somewhere in this representation: http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/VCORE/Publications/mark_spencer/mark.smil it is mentioned that one can cal an Mp3 file. How is this implemented? When this Mp3 is playing, is it then still possible to receive a call? Thanks, Willy -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Becker Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:18 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk Sean Cook wrote:> The company I work for is looking at vendors for a PBX, one of the > requirements is VoIP. I have been sitting there listening to people > pitch very proprietary implementations of VoIP where you are locked in > to their hardware, their interface... > > I know a little bit about asterisk (set up a couple offices with it... > run it at home...) and would like to pitch it to this company. Does > someone have a decent presentation that I could use as a starting point? > Basically I am looking for a "business" oriented (not too technical) > overview of asterisk, or "asterisk for suits".http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/VCORE/Publications/mark_spencer/mark.smil A presentation by Mark Spencer that discusses the Business and Technical Details of Asterisk. Regards, -- Jason Becker Director & CEO Coalescent Systems Inc. 403.244.8089 www.coalescentsystems.ca _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
That is the difference between a commercial project and an open source project; you must do your part to add value. Surely you do not expect glossy ad slicks... By the way, I am not the author, just provided you a link where you could find information targeted at your audience, use it for reference, not as finished product.> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Greg Boehnlein > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:53 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Damon Estep wrote: > > >http://www.millenigence.com/articles/asterisk-non-technical-review.pdf> > A word of warning.. > > That document is a good start, but you best not put it in front of a > decision maker. There are a bunch of grammatical and typographicalerrors> that need to be corrected in it.. > > I'll be happy to elaborate to whoever has the original and can modifyit.> I only charge half my hourly rate for Copy Editing services.. ;) > > P.S. Yes.. that was a joke.. I'll be happy to submit changes andupdates> to it, but only if I have permission to use the udpated versionmyself.> > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > > > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of > > > Sean Cook > > > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:10 AM > > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk > > > > > > The company I work for is looking at vendors for a PBX, one > > > of the requirements is VoIP. I have been sitting there > > > listening to people pitch very proprietary implementations of > > > VoIP where you are locked in to their hardware, their interface... > > > > > > I know a little bit about asterisk (set up a couple offices withit...> > > run it at home...) and would like to pitch it to this > > > company. Does someone have a decent presentation that I > > > could use as a starting point? > > > Basically I am looking for a "business" oriented (not too > > > technical) overview of asterisk, or "asterisk for suits". > > > > > > any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > Sean > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > -- > Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc.Company> http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! > KP-216-121-ST > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 21:04 -0700, Damon Estep wrote:> That is the difference between a commercial project and an open source > project; you must do your part to add value. Surely you do not expect > glossy ad slicks... >As I stated in my original post... just looking for a starting point.> By the way, I am not the author, just provided you a link where you > could find information targeted at your audience, use it for reference, > not as finished product. >I appreciate the link... I have already used quite a bit of the reference in preperation for my presentation. Although, I can see where Greg (at least I think it was Greg) is coming from, it might be nice from a "business side" if someone had a wiki for case studies and such. Just a thought.