[TriLUG] [OT] Recommendations for hosted VoIP

Brian Henning bhenning at pineinst.com
Wed Aug 4 10:59:50 EDT 2010


Hi List,

Our small company is evaluating options for moving from POTS to a hosted
VoIP solution.

I recall some time ago there was a fairly active TriLUG list member who
worked for FeatureTel.  That led me to consider popping the question here,
and looking for some folks to offer suggestions.

I'd be very appreciative of any input, preferably off-list, from both
vendors and consumers of hosted VoIP solutions in the Triangle area.  I'm
looking for pros and cons, so that I can make some sort of rational choice.

Here's some more about our company:

+ We are located off Triangle Drive (across US-70 from The Original Mattress
Factory).
+ We have four full-time in-office employees, and two part-time
mostly-from-home employees.
+ We currently have BellSouth DSL which, according to a dslreports.com speed
test I just ran, gives us about 6Mbps down and 384 kbps up.
+ We make relatively routine use of Skype's voice and video features to talk
to folks in our parent company office in Grove City, PA.
+ We also have a VPN setup to Grove City using SonicWall hardware endpoints.
The VPN sees medium-to-low traffic.

We are interested in evaluating solutions that either use our existing ISP
or involve other public and/or private WAN technologies such as T1s, etc.
(e.g. FeatureTel's FUSION service).

I'll probably cross-post most of this to triangle internetworkers, so
apologies to those who are on both lists and see this message twice. :-)

Cheers!
~Brian

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          Brian Henning, Software Engineer

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