Originally Posted By: JustinH
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: JustinH
Wow, your cisco solution was implemented the wrong way.
I admined a Nortel/Avaya system for about 500 users for a few years as part of my job, now I admin a Cisco phone solution as part of my job.
You need a high availability virtual server setup, and you need a fiber connection with some kind of a cable backup.
Also on top of that you need cisco network gear hooked to a single analog line to allow for 911 calling, as well as emergency phone calling if everything goes down.
In theory, if the network goes down, the cisco system will use a single pots line to allow users to make calls.
Larger companies have phone admins whos only job is to do voice and chat servers.
Cisco phones are not cheap either, neither are the licenses that go with them. I think its the cadillac of enterprise voip.
It varies location-to-location as to the requirement for analog failover, it's not required here in Canada, we can use cellular failover through the same provider (Rogers) but I agree, your points are similar to mine with respect to this setup
Interesting. I have a few LTE setups on small offices off the main campus, but never thought of doing LTE as a failover. We just pay ATT for a single pots line. The costs may be similar, I think we pay 40 for a VZW LTE connection. Pots phone line is probably similar.
All the POTS here is owned by Bell, I think it is roughly $50/month for a Bell line, which Rogers would need to lease from Bell. So they generally recommend using their cellular network as failover, which is a bit cheaper (albeit not much).