Re: alternative to voip gateways

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

The Calix and Occam systems are web based. I find the Occam interface easier, but I've used it longer. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Nick Edwards" <nick.z.edwards () gmail com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 5:06:28 AM 
Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways 

Thanks, this seems far more cost effective. 
But what about configuration, is it easy enough to configure? 

I'm told it must be simple to config and understand and if possible 
web based (im told because I may not always be available they want 
their basic IT staff to be able to understand and if need be make 
changes - which that alone scares me none of them understand anything 
other than windows) 

Thanks for all the suggestions 

On 5/3/20, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote: 
> If you were to outfit them with three chassis of Calix\Occam B6-252s, you'd 
> be under $25k for the whole thing and get ADSL2+ speeds. You would need most 
> of a rack to do it. 
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>
> Other platforms may or may not be more cost effective or a better solution. 
> Just throwing the idea out there. 
>
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
>
> Midwest Internet Exchange 
>
> The Brothers WISP 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> From: "Nick Edwards" <nick.z.edwards () gmail com> 
> To: "Jeremy Austin" <jhaustin () gmail com> 
> Cc: nanog () nanog org 
> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:21:17 AM 
> Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways 
>
> The huts or cabins whatever you want to call them, are right behind 
> the admin building at entrance, so first is about 300 meters and the 
> furtherest is just under 1 mile 
>
> Cost will be an issue, Im sure I will have no problems if I have to 
> install a full rack of gateways and another full of dslams if it costs 
> 150K, over something 1/5th the size in one rack that will cost 200k - 
> since the company is not charging them for internet or voice. 
>
> On 5/2/20, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin () gmail com> wrote: 
> > What’s the average loop length? Grandstream is probably OK to 5+ kfeet but 
> >
> > you will lose CID before that. 
> >
> > As the low cost option don’t expect them to be trouble-free (or have 
> > particularly good vendor support), but they might work in your application 
> >
> > if cheap is what makes sense. 
> >
> > My $.02 
> >
> > Jeremy Austin 
> >
> > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:11 PM Andrey Slastenov <a.slastenov () gmail com> 
> > wrote: 
> >
> > > Look at MSAN solution. Like Huawei UA5000 or similar solutions from other 
> > >
> > > vendors. 
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards, 
> > > Andrey 
> > >
> > > > 2 мая 2020 г., в 07:21, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards () gmail com> 
> > > написал(а): 
> > > > I'm looking at a new sister company we just took over, their remote 
> > > > village has 1700 analogue phone lines to the workers huts, but they go 
> > > >
> > > > nowhere past the MDF. 
> > > >
> > > > The office runs voip, now i'm told i have to get phones to the workers 
> > > >
> > > > because the <lots of explicit words> AKA previous owners of that 
> > > > business stopped the build when they ran into financial problems. 
> > > >
> > > > So my plan is to utilize the existing many miles worth of copper pairs. 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at throwing them into Versa Dslams that use pppoe pass 
> > > > through, throw in a mikoTik 1036 as pppoe server, and we got spare 
> > > > R710 i can use as radius server, and by my limited knowledge this 
> > > > works. 
> > > >
> > > > OK data done, but... now all those pots out lines need to go somewhere 
> > > >
> > > > that can handle 1700 or more lines, I am looking at either grandstream 
> > > >
> > > > 48 port FXS gateways or sangoma vega 50 ports (which Ill use as 48 so 
> > > > theres a 1:1 match with dslams) the vega 3050 probably wont be used 
> > > > because they are more than twice the price of grandstream. 
> > > >
> > > > But this all results in a sh1te load of 48 port gateways (power is not 
> > > >
> > > > a concern), but wondering if there is another solution that is more 
> > > > cost effective? Seems the regular NEC's Siemens and so on might have 
> > > > an option but I can imagine it will be far more expensive than a bunch 
> > > >
> > > > of individual gateways. 
> > > >
> > > > This project is in my mind workable, but i've not done such a thing on 
> > > >
> > > > a large scale. 
> > > > Those who have experience in this field care to chime in? is my method 
> > > >
> > > > acceptable or not for such a project size? 
> > > >
> > > > most pbx's I've done are only few hundred analogue lines where 
> > > > gateways are more suited and definitely more cost effective, at all 
> > > > our locations we use freepbx which works perfectly, and we know the 
> > > > beefyness of the box we'll need to install to handle this load, thats 
> > > > not a problem if we go down the gateway method. 
> > > >
> > > > thoughts? 
> > -- 
> > Jeremy Austin 
> > jhaustin () gmail com