Asterisk PBX support / vendor

[Lisa Kachold]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:22 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:

> Rhino does make good hardware.
> Another local vendor is Xorcom; while their parent company is based in
> Israel XorcomUSA is based in Phoenix.
> The only thing I like about Xorcom hardware over Rhino is that it scales a
> little easier.  It is USB2 based so you don't have to worry about whether
> the motherboard is compatible with PCI cards (3v/5v), you can fit a lot of
> telephony hardware in a small amount of space (for example this install:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/twingeckos/FortPolkJointReadinessTrainingCenter#),
> and it generally comes out at a slightly lower price for the customer
> (sometimes significantly less).
> That said... I don't care for the XR1000 server that Xorcom sells as it is
> too underpowered to expand (ok for demos) but the XR2000 and XR3000 servers
> are fine; they will be coming out with a more powerful XR1000 soon
> thankfully.
>

Yes, I agree!

voip-info.org is a one stop reference for all things Asterisk, BTW.


>
> Sangoma also makes fine Asterisk telephony hardware.  I haven't tried any
> of the Chinese Digium knockoffs and probably never will.  I don't
> recommend mixing different vendor's Asterisk telephony hardware as it is
> very un-likely that the combination has been tested by either vendor.
> For 'roll your own' servers I recommend Server Micro hardware.
>

I agree, provided the cards are installed right (PCI conflicts); if you are
using Digium or Rhino cards.  I have not used the Xorcom USB2 stuff.

>
> Since the phones are what users actually touch get good phones :)  For
> phones I generally prefer Polycom or Aastra phones.  You can use Cisco
> phones if you flash them with the SIP firmware (there is chan_skinny for
> Asterisk but why complicate matters); you may have to set qualify=no to
> avoid registration issues.
>

I don't see any benefit using Cisco phones over Polycom?  It's nice to have
a well supported firmware also.

>
> JD
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:37, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>
>> I recommend RhinoEquipment.  I worked there for Jim Rhodea.   Great mount
>> of aggressive bad fun.
>>
>> I am not sure if Jim is doing systems contracting and service work, or
>> troub k ,
>>
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>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My company does :)
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:05, Hunter Kreie <hunter at brownies.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could anyone recommend a consultant or firm that provides Asterisk based
>>>> phone system support / installation? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would love the flexibility of having a Linux based PBX, but if I need
>>>> some local resources who have worked extensively with Asterisk based systems
>>>> to reach out to when I get stumped by an issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hunter
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