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Hello everyone,
Please excuse me if this is the wrong place to post this. [New here, though have used 3CX in the past as evaluation]. This is a long post. For quick reference to the specific questions I'm asking I've coloured them blue
I am now working for a small company and I have set up a phone system using voip.ms. I went with them because they offer pbx-like functionality without having to actually get a pbx. I'm looking for more reliability and a more consistent environment in which to deploy our phone system. Hence I'm looking to 3CX. It takes a lot of convincing the boss and this is a hard-sell so I need to get things in line before I can convince him to open his wallet. I'm thinking of sticking with voip.ms as a sip trunk and to manage our phone numbers and maybe including a trunk for the UK, international lines aren't working very well with voip.ms.
We have 5 Yealink-T28P phones
--three of these phones are at our office
--two of these phones are at remote locations
At home and on the road, I use a Cisco WIP310 phone
Each of us travels and needs to have communication wherever we go. Our smartphones are SIP enabled and we have softphones installed on our computer.
What I would like to do is suggest to my boss that we buy a server with windows 2008 foundation. Co-locate it at a datacentre and use it as AD, File Storage and a PBX. I would then connect our office internet connection to the server via a VPN router, or use individual VPN connections on our laptops.
Is it possible to have the 3CX server at a remote datacentre, recommended?
What would you suggest? Use a VPN router for all net traffic for IP calls or configure each as an external extension?
We do not handle a large volume of calls but we do need something that is reliable. For now, I was thinking using the 8 simultaneous calls licence or possibly convincing my boss to go with 16 (conferences).
when looking at a colocation package, given the number of maximum calls, how much bandwidth should I need 1mbps? 2mbps? Keep in mind that the server will also host AD and act as a back-up file store
Thank you for any suggestions you may have.
E
Please excuse me if this is the wrong place to post this. [New here, though have used 3CX in the past as evaluation]. This is a long post. For quick reference to the specific questions I'm asking I've coloured them blue
I am now working for a small company and I have set up a phone system using voip.ms. I went with them because they offer pbx-like functionality without having to actually get a pbx. I'm looking for more reliability and a more consistent environment in which to deploy our phone system. Hence I'm looking to 3CX. It takes a lot of convincing the boss and this is a hard-sell so I need to get things in line before I can convince him to open his wallet. I'm thinking of sticking with voip.ms as a sip trunk and to manage our phone numbers and maybe including a trunk for the UK, international lines aren't working very well with voip.ms.
We have 5 Yealink-T28P phones
--three of these phones are at our office
--two of these phones are at remote locations
At home and on the road, I use a Cisco WIP310 phone
Each of us travels and needs to have communication wherever we go. Our smartphones are SIP enabled and we have softphones installed on our computer.
What I would like to do is suggest to my boss that we buy a server with windows 2008 foundation. Co-locate it at a datacentre and use it as AD, File Storage and a PBX. I would then connect our office internet connection to the server via a VPN router, or use individual VPN connections on our laptops.
Is it possible to have the 3CX server at a remote datacentre, recommended?
What would you suggest? Use a VPN router for all net traffic for IP calls or configure each as an external extension?
We do not handle a large volume of calls but we do need something that is reliable. For now, I was thinking using the 8 simultaneous calls licence or possibly convincing my boss to go with 16 (conferences).
when looking at a colocation package, given the number of maximum calls, how much bandwidth should I need 1mbps? 2mbps? Keep in mind that the server will also host AD and act as a back-up file store
Thank you for any suggestions you may have.
E