Hi everyone! Diving into Asterisk sub-reddit I found this post about Best SIP Trunks Providers
http://www.reddit.com/r/Asterisk/comments/1xt3tj/best_sip_trunk_providers_of_2014/ Regards Luciano 2014-02-13 13:18 GMT-02:00 Chris Manly <c...@cornell.edu>: > I think it's going to be hard to find a high-quality outsourced voice > solution for a small account, especially if you have an sophisticated > needs. In my previous $job, where I was working for a small financial > firm, I often described our needs as "small enterprise" because we had many > of the complex needs of an enterprise (segmented/segregated networks, > complex backups, complex phone needs, etc) without the scale that helps > amortize the cost of that complexity. It's really hard to find good > solutions in that space. > > Voice is hard, in part because you've got a long legacy of pre-VoIP tech > that's heavily regulated, and then the VoIP world that's very capable and > flexible, but largely unregulated. People have come to expect the > reliability of the former, but want the flexibility and price advantage of > the latter. At a small scale, the only way you're going to get that is to > have a local system with someone who really understands the local need and > can tune the system for it and cares enough to get it right. For an > outsourced provider to care enough, they'd have to charge more than it was > worth to people. > > -- > Christopher Manly > Coordinator, Library Systems > Cornell University Library Information Technologies > c...@cornell.edu > 607-255-3344 > > From: Jon Young <j...@network-plumbers.com> > Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM > Cc: "discuss@lists.lopsa.org" <discuss@lists.lopsa.org> > Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Virtual PBX's? > > Not fonality, worst implementation experience I've been through. > > For my small $work with 20ish people spread across 5 offices and lots of > travel, we've been looking for something more appropriate but with a strong > eye towards integration with office365 and hosted lync. Lots of problems > and I'm not really finding anyone that does that for small organizations. > A significant portion of my consulting work is helping large organizations > (mostly universities with project costs in the millions) through this same > problems and there are excellent options in the enterprise space but I'm > finding few reasonably priced options in the small business space. > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < > lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > >> > From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- >> > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Derek Balling >> > >> > If someone suggests 8x8, smack them hard across the face. >> >> ehhehehhe, I work at a company right now that uses 8x8. I have >> considered moving off them before, and I'm sure there are better >> alternatives out there, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort. >> Not that much to gain. When I saw Matthew's OP here a few minutes ago, I >> momentarily considered responding, but couldn't make up my mind if I would >> have positive versus negative feedback, and decided not to post, until I >> saw this. Overall, I think I would have a *slightly* negative review, but >> the above position is too extreme to be fair, so I have to come to the >> defense of 8x8 and say, they're not that bad. They have a moderate feature >> set, at moderate pricing, and moderately good support and sales. Nothing >> special, nothing horrible. Yes usable. No complaints from either my users >> or finance dept. If I make a change it's because I'm trying to make an >> improvement, in terms of feature set or price, and there just simply isn't >> enough at stake to motivate me over the risk >> . Anything I could gain will not be amazingly impressive, but if I >> screw up and choose a new provider that *does* elicit complaints from >> users, the fault will be entirely mine. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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