Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies using Asterisk and how many DIDs you have. I have built a small system and tested it with AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly. I go in front of my Management Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable solution. We are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of 1700 phones. Any info you have would be a huge help when they ask who else is using it. Thanks in advance! Randy Quick Communications Technician II Texoma Healthcare Systems 903.416.4398 rquick@thcs.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060322/6fe35360/attachment.htm
This is beyond obvious, but make sure you test everything - Every Single Thing - right before you go in there. I have had a few instances where I reach for a nifty feature and discover that I broke it yesterday when I implemented 'X'. This happened in a mini-demo of mine and I had to do some quick recovery. I personally wish you all the luck in the world. Any healthcare organization looking to save like this is a worthy one. My shop is small. Just 16 lines, 60 or so sets, and 3 DID's (actually being used.) Bob McDowell _____ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of QUICK, RANDY Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:53 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies using Asterisk and how many DIDs you have. I have built a small system and tested it with AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly. I go in front of my Management Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable solution. We are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of 1700 phones. Any info you have would be a huge help when they ask who else is using it. Thanks in advance! Randy Quick Communications Technician II Texoma Healthcare Systems 903.416.4398 rquick@thcs.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060322/e2c1aeb7/attachment.htm
That is will be a lot of work. First comment I would make is the aastra's will give you issues. I have a shop with 30 of them and there were very problematic and a poor speaker phone. They are swapping all of them to polycoms. My next question would be what are you going to use for PRI hardware? Make sure it has good hardware echo canceling. Good luck! -- Justin -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Daniel Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:25 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Asterisk Users That's definitely an undertaking, I would suggest taking it a section at a time. We're currently running about 61 phones on our system, about to ramp up to about 1300 by mid summer, and then to about 10,000 by next summer. It's definitely not something you want to do in one fell swoop, and I agree that you definitely need to test EVERYTHING before you do anything. We've been in testing for at least 6 months, and in development for over a year. Aaron On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bob McDowell wrote:> This is beyond obvious, but make sure you test everything - EverySingle> Thing - right before you go in there. I have had a few instanceswhere> I reach for a nifty feature and discover that I broke it yesterdaywhen> I implemented 'X'. This happened in a mini-demo of mine and I had todo> some quick recovery. > > I personally wish you all the luck in the world. Any healthcare > organization looking to save like this is a worthy one. > > My shop is small. Just 16 lines, 60 or so sets, and 3 DID's (actually > being used.) > > > > Bob McDowell > > > > > _____ > > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of QUICK, > RANDY > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:53 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users > > > > Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies usingAsterisk> and how many DIDs you have. I have built a small system and tested it > with AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly. I go in front of my > Management Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable > solution. We are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of > 1700 phones. Any info you have would be a huge help when they ask who > else is using it. > > Thanks in advance! > > Randy Quick > Communications Technician II > Texoma Healthcare Systems > 903.416.4398 > rquick@thcs.org > > > >-- Aaron Daniel Computer Systems Technician Sam Houston State University amdtech@shsu.edu (936) 294-4198 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
I'm currently 1 PRI with 25 phones. We'll be 2 PRI's and over 100 phones by mid summer. We're currently 5 DID's, but I'm pretty sure we'll be around 50 when were done. We're currently migrating off of a cisco call manager. I recommend going slow with your transition -- do a chunk of phones, wait a week or two before doing more. Asterisk excels at interoping with other systems; take advantage of this. Thanks. On 3/22/06, QUICK, RANDY <RQUICK@thcs.org> wrote:> > > Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies using Asterisk and > how many DIDs you have. I have built a small system and tested it with > AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly. I go in front of my Management > Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable solution. We > are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of 1700 phones. Any > info you have would be a huge help when they ask who else is using it. > > Thanks in advance! > > > Randy Quick > Communications Technician II > Texoma Healthcare Systems > 903.416.4398 > rquick@thcs.org > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >