I have sold and installed many of these systems and without exception, everyone who has bought and deployed one have been more than happy with them. It seems solid, it’s based on Asterisk (Digium), and gives us all of the features available with the Allworx and Digium systems. But as a non-profit, large recurring costs are a very real issue and I’m trying to minimize them where possible.Anyway, with that long winded introduction out of the way, here’s where I’m at: I’ve started looking at FreePBX. I have 2 issues with these systems:1.The huge markup on the appliances despite their lower end CPU, RAM, and HDD specs I can build a server with the same specs as a $5000 appliance for $800-900 worth of parts.2.The licensing costs, recurring software assurance costs, etc.Don’t get me wrong I understand that these companies rely on recurring sources of revenue to remain in business and that their pricing is very competitive with other products in the marketplace.
We like both systems and either seems like it would serve us well.
We plan on keeping PRI at both locations along with a couple of POT lines for redundancy and plan on having 2 PBX appliances one at each location.We’ve looked at Allworx and Digium systems as they are the few commercial offerings in our budget range.
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