linuxworld.com — SHSU is in the process of moving its 6,000 students, faculty and staff off of Cisco CallManager IP PBXs and a legacy Nortel Meridian PBX over to Linux servers running Asterisk, which includes call processing, voicemail and PSTN gateway functionality. The driver for this project was cost.
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weeblerSep 16, 2006
I work at a school board in Ontario Canada and we now have an Asterisk box in 3 schools. They are awesome, well worth the switch.
anonatronSep 16, 2006
my company did this a couple of years ago, Cisco's proprietary hardware and software was horrible to manage.
2point0Sep 16, 2006
And we're supposed to care about this because?
nodrenSep 16, 2006
i was put in the same boat as you, having to configure asterisk with out knowing anything about it. thankfully my boss defended me against the insuing onslaught of people who wanted my head because they dropped an important call.we managed to fix the problems and now the system works quite well
anglerSep 16, 2006
Yup!
raindog469Sep 18, 2006
You can, but if you want to run phones off of it you'll need either IP phones or the analog phone interface cards sold by Digium (makers of Asterisk) and others.
noairbagJul 20, 2009
This was 2006, now 2009 - good idea to follow-up:The Asterix system had failed and the school quietly moved back to the Cisco system. This is good to map against those MAC vs. PC commercials: you see people being offered money to pick out a laptop that meets their needs. They look over the MAC and cry about the cost and end up picking up some HP/DELL laptop for much less.I say: Not the best idea to hype product/technology - let's talk to those people 2 years later. Has anyone ever received a medal or a raise when they saved their company money?