chipmang
join:2007-04-01
Los Angeles, CA
| [General] New to Trixbox: smb solution advice needed
Great forums, and trying to figure out the best solution for us.
Situation:
SMB with 2 users at home office.
** We have DSL line/ 6mb/768. Will upgrade to faster line, or cable/business.
** Sonicwall firewall with VOIP filtering.
** 1-3 incoming calls coming in at a time MAX.
End Result:
Have Trixbox becoming our pbx.
Want to have the ability for 1-2 remote users, at their house, where we want to have follow me option, to connect to them, if say a caller calls in and wants Helpdesk.
If a caller calls wants the helpdesk, hits 200, then calls remote user 1 at home, not there, then hits his cell phone.
Suggestion have been a card with 4 ports on it.
Get 2 analog lines to handle the incoming.
Getting the question:
What is best options for this scenario?
Hardware: cards for asterix, iP phones($100-180 range), PPTP boxes(which, or not needed)
Lines: How many Analog for this scenario, how many SIP connections to sign up for,
Anything else?
Just trying to get right advice before spending the money.
Garett |
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chipmang
join:2007-04-01
Los Angeles, CA | did I offend anybody? what's wrong with my question. Just curious. |
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mazilo
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join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
| said by chipmang  :did I offend anybody? what's wrong with my question. Just curious. Hi Garret,
I don't think you had offended anyone by asking questions about asterisk. AFAIC, this is more of a general VoIP discussion forum with not so many asterisk users. For me, I mostly post my asterisk questions on Asterisk forum and sometimes don't even get responses. Cheers.
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B
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join:2000-10-28
| reply to chipmang
I'd love to see suggestions on that as well.
The only thing I can offer is that PBX-In-A-Flash may currently have better cachet than TrixBox, as the latter has been moving towards a more closed source and/or noncooperative model, or at least so I understand from NerdVittles (the creator of PiAF).
If you haven't been reading NerdVittles I suggest you do -- whether or not you go with their distribution of Asterisk, there's tons of great info on that site.
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alphapointe
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join:2002-02-10
Columbia, MO
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I've got a couple of remote extensions off my trixbox. I just have the remote user using a Grandstream HT486 router/ATA on their end, and ports 5060-5070tcp/udb and 12000-35000udp open on the server side firewall. The extension appears as a standard local SIP extension. You can then set up followme to hunt between the SIP extensions and a cell phone. I have one analog line for outbound cell calls, and it seems to work fine.
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meister_sd
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join:2006-01-29
La Mesa, CA
| reply to chipmang
Dump the SonicWall.
I have it at work and it doesn't QoS VoIP well at all even though it has a check box to do so. My suggestion is to test your box (with it's firewall enabled) on the open net and do some quick tests. Then put it behind the sonicwall and try again - maybe it will work better for you. I use one of our open IPs and run TrixBox that way. |
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snowsam
join:2001-04-11
Signal Mountain, TN
| reply to chipmang
I use the * Gui, but am similar in size of deployment (3 phones, three lines) on a debian server that does other stuff as well.
For SIP phones I am using Polycom SoundPoint IP430 phones and am very happy with the phones. The can be configured via their web interface or via the display.
For non-sip phones (ATAs) I use Sipura devices.
For interface to the analog lines I am using a Digium TDM410 card with some OEM and some generic interface modules.
I am not using any external sip services, but do have internal and external sip extensions.
Sam |
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