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Setting up a 100% voip environment is not expensive,<BR>
The cost increases when you need to add hardware to connect to legacy phones, or legacy phone lines,<BR>
To have an idea about voip-phones and the card prices look at voipsupply.com,<BR>
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Almost any oldy will work as a server, and there are many Asterisk distributions that will work well out of the box,<BR>
(I have a trixbox running on a pentium 4 for 5 years at home, and even my android runs an app that hooks as an extension to my home pbx)<BR>
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The installation is very easy for somebody who know linux,<BR>
and the configuration, having a gui interface is painless,<BR>
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As using voip includes contracting with a voip termination provider (I use teliax.com)<BR>
other options are just skipping your box and using their pbx like environment (a la vonage)<BR>
but that might not be suitable if you want to use advanced pbx stuff,<BR>
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If you tell a little more about the environment I could help better,<BR>
(number of extension, pre-existing hardware, availability or not of ethernet wiring)<BR>
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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 15:39 -0600, J. Marsden DeLapp wrote:
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I am looking for some advice on setting up a PBX system that includes VOIP.
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I currently have a proprietary PBX system (Talkswitch 280vs) that could do
VOIP if I add a $500 module to it.
How easy is it to setup an Asterisk based PBX? and what do they cost?
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Mars
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