3cx
3cx is a solid platform. Been using it for about 15 months now. Fsx lines are really simple within this system. Easy as pie to administer as well. Good documentation available also.
Is Asterisk still a thing?
Edit: Indeed https://www.asterisk.org/
It is but that is only config file. Asterisknow has merged into Freepbx and that has been claimed by some central body. I looked through their wiki a bit and everything is monolithic thus not kubernetes friendly with no advanced trials.
Digium was purchased by Sangoma, and its all freepbx/switchvox now
I worked there and a buddy still does, awful place to work(Digium).
Just learn asterisk, its not that hard. and its written in c++ so theres that.
Setting up schools with voip is big biz and if you get the job you should charge them out the yazoo.
Better yet, call a reseller and pretend you want to setup your school and get them to tell you the setup they'd use.
When a reseller at Digium sold a school, we saw pictures of the trucks being loaded, 100's of thousands of dollars worth of gear.
In reality, those phones cost about 10 bucks to make and are mostly plastic and the pbxs are $200 linux servers that get sold at $12,000 each.
Then we charge em for the licenses, per extension, which cost us nothing.
WHATEVER YOU DO, do NOT offer to manage their network, make them do that or they will lay it on you.
sry - its rare anyone asks about something I actually know about. I agree, fuck ringcentral.
I set up a few pbxinaflash many years ago. It had autoprovisioning but was a pain in changes. Mitel is nice but pricey.
My friend is looking around and knew I had some voip experience. I hadn't done anything with voip systems in awhile.
I checked the pbxact hardware and it's not really impressive. My friend got a quote from them and it was the licensing that got him since freepbx is more about the feature.
Well, hate telling folks stuff they already (especially when I'm wrong) but I tried. Good luck!
freepbx (asterisk) works well. I am running it at 4 locations, connected together with IAX2, supporting ~75 phones
Is that 4 servers connected together? How is there endpoint manager or do you use it?
4 separate servers. All are virtual machines. You can use extensions between them as well as forward calls etc.
asterisk supports 'peering' them, its a basic type of connection, setup on both pbxs
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