[Leaplist] low cost Linux telephony?

[Jason Boxman]

Tom Parker wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
>> Anyone using a local Asterix server or an online VoIP solution for handling
>> small business voice communications?  I'm paying Embarq an insane amount of
>> money for two analog lines, call forwarding, caller ID, and voice mail.
> 
> I've had great success with Switchvox (http://www.switchvox.com/).  It
> is Asterisk-based and the company was recently purchased by Digium,
> the primary sponsor of the Asterisk project.
> 
> I've never had a problem with it and it has saved me tons of time in
> setup and maintenance.  Before that I setup my own custom Asterisk
> setup, but it was just too hard to maintain because it was a lot of
> config file editing.
> 
> We use the system on a voice T1 from PAETEC, but that's only because
> we are still under contract with them.  I'm sure there are plenty of
> VoIP providers that can beat Embarq's prices so long as you have a
> solid internet connection.

Interesting.  All of our business is phone driven, mostly, so we'd need 
insane uptime with any VoIP solution.  It'd need to be like the regular 
phone: it always just works (tm).



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