Just mentioning we are in the same boat regarding the costs of setting up 
the Asterisk server and supporting hardware.  We purchased a single T1 card 
for our server which and paid $645 USD.  The PC is just a used one we had 
laying around (we may upgrade after testing).  We also acquired two channel 
banks.  The costs do add up - especially if you're just serving 6 people 
with 3 lines.

You may be better off using an off the shelf FXO gateway (D-Link and many 
others make them up to 16 lines in) for a couple hundred.  That's assuming 
you will just get analog lines into your facility and just VOIP between 
offices.  The other better option is using someone else's service.

Aaron




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at camo dash route dot com>
To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:50 PM
Subject: [m0n0wall] Re: OT: Multi-line VOIP service


> Aaron with Morad wrote:
>> We are in the (slow) process of setting up an Asterisk server here.  We
>> will be providing VOIP over a wide area broadband network to very rural
>> customers (remote industrial facilities with poor to no cell coverage).
>>
>
> Thanks for your answer, but I'm not sure how that is supposed to help
> me?  You want to offer me your services or you suggest me to set up an
> asterisk server?  What are the costs involved in this kind of setup?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ugo
>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at camo dash route dot com>
>> To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:34 PM
>> Subject: [m0n0wall] OT: Multi-line VOIP service
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm in Canada and I'm thinking about going to VOIP here at the office.
>>> I'd like to have the opinion of people on this list.
>>>
>>> We'll be ~6 users but we'd probably need only 3 phones.  I think
>>> setting up an asterix server just for that might be overkill.  So I
>>> called Vonage and asked about corporate, multi-line environment and they
>>> weren't really helpful.  The phone adapter they use can manage 2 phone
>>> lines, so if I need 6, I'd need 3 phone adapters (hence 3 times the
>>> trouble).  Now I'm talking with voip.net.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking about maybe using www.teliphone.ca instead.  They seem to
>>> be providing an ip (wifi)- cellular bridged service.
>>>
>>> Anyone facing the same dillema?  I'd love to set up my IP phone service
>>> myself, but I'm not sure it is worth it for only 6 users.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any suggestion and feel free to e-mail
>>> me directly if you don't want to clutter the mailing list.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ugo
>>>
>>>
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