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lucio at sulweb.org
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:52 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

Steve Edwards wrote:

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0) I hope you mean you want to run Asterisk at home instead of
'Asterisk at Home.' A@H was an ancient distribution from around 2005.

Yes of course I didn't mean an ancient distro from 2005.

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1) Rent a DID (a 'PSTN number') from a reputable SIP provider. This
eliminates the need for a PCI/USB interface and you won't disrupt your
'business' while you figure out how to configure and test your
Asterisk server.

That's not possible in many areas here in Italy, including the place
where I live. The national Telco (Telecom Italia) owns the last mile
almost everyehere and other companies do not invest money to bring their
cables outside large cities. Telecom Italia does not offer data only
plans to private customers in rural areas.

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2) Ditch the 'room warmer' and find something really small and cheap
to run. I live in San Diego and we pay $0.32 per kWh. I'd guess
running your rig would cost me $50.00 to $100.00 per month just in
electricity

My rig is already running a bunch of other things and it must stay
powered for other reasons, so that's not an issue.
However, your suggestions made me consider your solution not for me, but
for a friend who is moving his office to a new place, hence the new
subject of this message. For him, the requisites would be quite similar
to what I need at home, except:

1. the whole thing becomes mission critical, he obviously can't accept
random hangups of the telephony system at work
2. the calls in a day raise to about 50, but he still has only one POTS
line with two numbers, one for voice and one for fax (ehm, yes, in 2015
in Italy someone still uses the fax...). However the faxes are rare and
can be handled by the traditional fax machine he already owns.
3. I think he could actually move everything to SIP only, but I need to
double check that with him to be sure, so I assume a "no" here for the
time being
4. He already has the server, even more powerful than mine (some dual
Xeon with 64GB of RAM and a bunch of Terabyes of RAID storage...)
5. there are 20 phones in his office, instead of the 4 phones at my
home, but the model is the same (they all ring on incoming calls and the
1st off hook takes the call, while the others can still make internal
calls)

Now the question is: given the modified requirements above, is the
linksys spa3102 a reasonable solution?

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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:46 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

On 16/06/15 08:52, lucio@sulweb.org wrote:

Quote:

Steve Edwards wrote:

Quote:

0) I hope you mean you want to run Asterisk at home instead of
'Asterisk at Home.' A@H was an ancient distribution from around 2005.

Yes of course I didn't mean an ancient distro from 2005.

Quote:

That's not possible in many areas here in Italy, including the place
where I live. The national Telco (Telecom Italia) owns the last mile
almost everyehere and other companies do not invest money to bring
their cables outside large cities. Telecom Italia does not offer data
only plans to private customers in rural areas.

Quote:

My rig is already running a bunch of other things and it must stay
powered for other reasons, so that's not an issue. However, your
suggestions made me consider your solution not for me, but for a
friend who is moving his office to a new place, hence the new subject
of this message. For him, the requisites would be quite similar to
what I need at home, except:
1. the whole thing becomes mission critical, he obviously can't
accept random hangups of the telephony system at work
2. the calls in a day raise to about 50, but he still has only one
POTS line with two numbers, one for voice and one for fax (ehm, yes,
in 2015 in Italy someone still uses the fax...). However the faxes
are rare and can be handled by the traditional fax machine he already
owns.
3. I think he could actually move everything to SIP only, but I need
to double check that with him to be sure, so I assume a "no" here for
the time being
4. He already has the server, even more powerful than mine (some dual
Xeon with 64GB of RAM and a bunch of Terabyes of RAID storage...)
5. there are 20 phones in his office, instead of the 4 phones at my
home, but the model is the same (they all ring on incoming calls and
the 1st off hook takes the call, while the others can still make
internal calls)

Now the question is: given the modified requirements above, is the linksys spa3102 a reasonable solution?

I realize this might not go down well with the mailing list/newsgroup here Wink

but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX?
Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ?

(I have 5 SIP trunks, 5-7 internal numbers, 1 queue (without IVR), 2 time conditions
and 10-15 SIP devices, all handled fine with stable FreePBX v12 / Asterisk 11.x,
on a ~2006 32-bit Celeron 2.6GHz with 1GB RAM and 150GB of RAID, queuing/handling/recording
4 concurrent incoming SIP calls without problems;
[that's ONLY because I've only got that many queue members, not b/c it couldn't handle more]
[and I don't run IVR because I've seen no need for it either])

(DISCLAIMER : I am in no way affiliated with FreePBX team or Sangoma,
otherwise than just running one instance of FreePBX)

el es

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lucio at sulweb.org
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:07 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

Lukasz Sokol wrote:

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but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX?
Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ?

mdupuis at ocg.ca
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:13 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

I think you are mixing up answers and general advice. FreePBX was intended to get you over the dialplan creation hurdle (the biggest challenge for people new to Asterisk).

In regards to the LinkSys they are compatible and you do find them in enterprises, but admins are trying to get rid of adapters/converters so if possible you may wish to invest in SIP devices directly instead of an adapter.

-M-

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Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Quote:

but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX?
Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ?

I've never used FreePBX, but, after having looked at its website, I
think I have a general understanding of what it can do. What I don't
understand is how FreePBX answers my question about the Linksys SPA3102
being good for a mission critical solution or not.

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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:55 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

a similar setup with 3 xspa3102 are working in a law office for 2 years non stop. they are very reliable, but a pain to configure them. regarding freepbx is very helpful if you do not want to have yourself involved with pure asterisk. Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM From: "Michelle Dupuis" <mdupuis@ocg.ca> To: "Asterisk Users List" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small homebrew pbx] I think you are mixing up answers and general advice. FreePBX was intended to get you over the dialplan creation hurdle (the biggest challenge for people new to Asterisk). In regards to the LinkSys they are compatible and you do find them in enterprises, but admins are trying to get rid of adapters/converters so if possible you may wish to invest in SIP devices directly instead of an adapter. -M- ________________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com <asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com> on behalf of lucio@sulweb.org <lucio@sulweb.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:07 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small homebrew pbx] Lukasz Sokol wrote: > but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX? > Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ? I've never used FreePBX, but, after having looked at its website, I think I have a general understanding of what it can do. What I don't understand is how FreePBX answers my question about the Linksys SPA3102 being good for a mission critical solution or not. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

rswagoner at gmail.com
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:03 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:07 AM, <lucio@sulweb.org (lucio@sulweb.org)> wrote:

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Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Quote:

but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX?
Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ?

covici at ccs.covici.com
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:07 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] small pbx for the office [it was: small hom

I have a small pbx and my sp3102 about one out of 10 times does not pick
up the line -- I have reduced the voltage to 15 volts, but no joy, every
so often it still does not answer.

Any ideas on that?

Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:07 AM, <lucio@sulweb.org> wrote:

Quote:

Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Quote:

but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX?
Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ?

I've used the SPA3102 and would recommend it for home use. For business
look at the Patton SmartNode 4110 series devices or a Cisco router with FXO
card and DSP modules. I have deployed both and haven't had any complaints.
They just work once configured.

Ryan

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