Asterisk PBX support / vendor

[JD Austin]

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.

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.

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.

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:
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>> My company does :)
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>> -- JD Austin
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>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:05, Hunter Kreie <hunter at brownies.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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