[LUAU] University dumps Cisco VoIP for Asterisk

[808blogger]

I drank beers with the network designer for that setup during the recent
astricon, as I run a local "ITSP" (or whatever the heck they are called)
voip network that i have designed and built running asterisk. There were
many factors, for their conversion... The irony of the story is that they
were going to keep the cisco phones simply for the feature that they allowed
dual sip registrations (or a hot backup) to 2 distict sip servers. almost no
other phone does this, currently even the polycom ip650's (the top of the
line polycom with hdvoice) cannot even do this. I just love the irony of the
backend just vaporizing and turning into open source and the end user/phone
wont even know!!

asterisk is the next true killer application. I think its powers are very
understimated currently.


Sean

On 1/2/07, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>
>
> I just saw this at network world news and thought it might be of
> interest.  Its a bit dated, and we all know that Hawaii is a bit
> behind the curve when
> it comes to technology, but perhaps this bodes well for the future.
>
> <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/091206-von-sam-houston.html>
>
> University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk
>
> Sam Houston State University replaces Cisco CallManagers, Nortel PBXs
> with Linux-based VoIP and messaging servers
>
> Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX
> platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing
> compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south
> Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP
> platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk.
>
> [...[
>
> "We thought that it will be more cost effective in the long run to go
> with an open source solution, because of the massive amounts of
> licensing fees required to keep the Cisco CallManager network up and
> running,"
>
>
> <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/080906-asterisk.html?prl>
> Asterisk maker preps for growth with $13.8 million investment
>
> By Tim Greene
>
> Open source IP PBX vendor Digium is about to launch a calculated
> marketing and packaging campaign it hopes will land its Asterisk
> software and products based on it in the networks of carriers, large
> corporations, small businesses and even consumers.
>
>
> Jim
>
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