On Mar 13, 2012, at 21:04, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Evening
>>
>> Hello Kerich,
>>
>> Your requirement doesn't sound quite clear to me. Could you please start
>> over again and present a clear picture of what you need to achieve?
>> I did not understand this "I require phone lines in various offices outside
>> within and outside Nairobi". "Outside within and outside" doesn't make
>> sense to start with. Then saying you "require phone lines" and going ahead
>> to rule out Telkom/Orange Wireless, then also ruling out GSM further
>> doesn't make sense - at least I think so, because that leaves you with
>> almost nothing. Look, you have ruled out CDMA and GSM. What remains??
>> Landlines??? Then again, you go ahead (below) to say you require pilot
>> numbers where external calls can be routed. Wait a moment - Zuku has some
>> phone system within their Triple-play, and so is KDN (spit!) with something
>> that used to be called Izzytalk (
http://www.izzytalk.co.ke/). I must admit
>> that I don't know how both technologies work because I haven't bothered as
>> yet.
>>
>> If you have several offices spread out geographically, you can do either of
>> two things:
>> 1. (a) Have your own IP PBX in the HQ. Also have a VPN concentrator (Cisco
>> 28xx or the ASA-series can do this)
> Something like Asterisk would do it, if he need a pilot line, with E1,
> it will have to be a box in his office as there are physical cards
> that will be needed to accomodate E1. That rule out VPS. Wonder if
> there is hosted PBX providers with presence in Kenya? I am not
> certain how the E1 would be handled without local office. He can set
> a ssh tunnel and run a SIP truck between PBX across the offices. If
> only one PBX is to ne used, a VPN for the SIP clients would be
> necessary
>> (b) Have VPN phone(s) ( IP Phones with built-in VPN) at the other
>> offices, configured to authenticate via the VPN
> Interesting, did not know such a phone exist
>> concentrator at HQ and having the Call Server as the HQ PBX.
>> 2. (a) Have an IP PBX at HQ, with any good grade Cisco router or any other
>> router that supports VPN tunneling
>> (b) Install similar routers at the branches and configure VPN tunnels
>> of your choice to HQ router
> Wonder what would be cheaper, a single trunk between office and get
> the SIP client to connect to the local office PBX. That way, he do
> not need to invest on VPN if he do not not have one already
>
>
>
> Good project though, good luck
>
> William
>> (c) Install IP Phones at the branches, configured with Call Server as
>> the HQ PBX
>>
>> If you'd like to have "Pilot" lines, you can have them at the HQ and route
>> calls as you need. You can easily do the same using an E1 circuit from
>> Safaricom/Airtel/Orange and have DIDs for each of the offices. With enough
>> channels on the E1, you can even partition the channels in blocks for each
>> of the offices. Those are logical partitions, achieved by call routing!
>>
>> YMMV, but that is what I'd do.
>>
>> Again, I am not at all pretending that I understood your
>> questions/requirements, so my advise could as well be quite vague!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:57, Andrew Kerich <
andykerich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, I will also require pilot numbers where external calls can be
>>> routed. I will then need to integrate this to the HQ IP Telephony.
>>> Safcom said they dont provide PBX solutions just the value added services
>>>
>>> Kerich.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Collins Areba <
arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> get a vps somewhere and host asterix, then get good internet from more
>>>> <reliable> service providers to each of the sites and voila!
>>>>
>>>> by the way, how about Safaricom?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Kerich <
andykerich@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I require phone lines in various offices outside within and outside
>>>>> Nairobi. Telkom wireless is not an option due to poor service. Also
>>>>> not GSM for now.
>>>>> What options are there?
>>>>> I am currently looking at hosted PABX solution at MTN. Ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rgds
>>>>> Kerich
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