if you have to setup an office of 100 users now. would you rather setup a sip trunk,a t1-pri, or even a t1? and why? thx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060928/9b53571c/attachment.htm
stan ford wrote:> if you have to setup an office of 100 users now. would you rather setup a sip trunk,a t1-pri, or even a t1? and why?Always a PRI. PRIs have fast call setup, are reliable and work well.
Also with PRI: -Fax works -No 911 issues -SIP provider may or may not honor your arbitrarily set caller ID - PRI always will if your telco isn't a dick -Easier to "break out" an analog channel if needed (give me a channel bank over an ata any day) -Faster to troubleshoot - if you get red alarm there are only 2 things to check - on SIP service, is it the LAN, firewall, switch, nic, IP gateway, or unknown router on the internet? -----Original Message----- From: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling [mailto:eric@fnords.org] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:06 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] t1-pri or sip trunk? stan ford wrote:> if you have to setup an office of 100 users now. would you rather setup asip trunk,a t1-pri, or even a t1? and why? Always a PRI. PRIs have fast call setup, are reliable and work well. _______________________________________________ --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
On 29 Sep 2006, at 05:03, stan ford wrote:> if you have to setup an office of 100 users now. would you rather > setup a sip trunk,a t1-pri, or even a t1? and why? >Both. Get a t1-pri - this will give you high uptime, high quality calls and all the rest. Then sign up with a couple of SIP (or IAX) providers and use them for cheaper international calls and to provide some extra capacity (100 users could fill your t1). Make sure your dialplan fails over to the PRI when your IAX providers are both down or your internet dies. The additional cost/hassle of doing both is quite small and it gives you more flexibility. Try and buy your T1 from someone other than your ISP. Otherwise when they go dark you lose _everything_. We had an incedent a year or two back when BT had a fire in the local exchange cable duct. The only thing working in the building (actually half the city) was my NTL E1 delivered over glass! (Mobile network got busy too !) If you have to chose go for PRI. Tim Panton www.mexuar.com