Steven wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We will be changing offices over the next month or two. Our current
> phone gear is leased from the owners and won't be coming with us. It's
> ISDN using Avaya kit; we use 10 lines on there.
>
> We were thinking about a move to VoIP. Is this feasible for a business
> with a measily 10 lines or so, or is the business world not quite ready
> for that? I accept there'd be a risk of broadband going down, but with
> POTS fall-over from the VoIP provider we could live with that... IF
> there'd be benefits elsewhere.
>
> The features we'd like are:
>
> * 10 IP Phones
> * Ability to receive calls on 10 DDI's
> * Voicemail
> * Internal/ External Call transfer
> * Route a DDI to a teleworkers phone at home or mobile
> * The box to run everything (Preferably an all-in-1 solution, and maybe
> look into something like Asterisk later.)
>
> Easily achievable, or should we stick with ISDN?
As a busines user, I'd echo what others have said here. Stick with ISDN
and use the VOIP for LCR. We have all our calls coming in via ISDN with
outgoing to mobile and international going via VOIP.

We use an Asterisk box with FreePBX on the front.