The New and Smarter Way of Communication

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Do you like to be free and independent ?
The New and Smarter Way of Communication Dr.
Daniel Ali Aman, CTO MCSB Group of Companies
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Customer is asking
Cisco ..?
Why should is use
My answer
I also don't know !
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Why enterprises like Asterisk
Inexpensive Deployment compared to traditional
hardware PBX
Reduced Maintenance cost
One Wire to Desktop
Flexibility
Richness of Features
Multiple Office and Remote User Integration
Easy to manage
Good feeling to add new phones and don't need to
pay for a license...
Stability
It's openness, no need to say can not be done...
To be different, changing something !
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Why some enterprises don't like Asterisk
Afraid of the new
Afraid of failing
Internal politics and standards
Support not expensive enough
What is cost effective cannot be good
System Integrators experience
Where is Asterisk heading
Do you prefer to fail with Cisco or Asterisk ?
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Biggest problems so far.....
Coordination and Communication
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Support, Support........
How many times you called Microsoft or Cisco last
year ?
How many times i called Microsoft or Cisco last
year for my clients ?
Who is providing you the support ?
Your system integrator......
How many people help each other with commercial
solutions ?
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Support, Support........
And there is always......
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What is the right setup ?
There was and is still a lot of confusion out
there.
What is Cisco, Avaya etc. doing better ?
Everyone has his own idea about the best setup.
I like to share with you my view and my experience
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Do you need Trixbox ?
No !
My opinion is that why should you use a
distribution maintained by a company which is
not substantially contributing anything to the
community.
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What do you need for a company with 200
extensions?

• 2 Servers for Asterisk cluster

• Debian 4
• Asterisk 1.2
• FreePBX 2.3
• Munin
• Webmin
• phpMyAdmin
• Nagios

• 3 Network cards in each server

• 1 Switch for your PSTN-Network
• 2 Redfone FoneBridges
• 1 Workstation / old server for Nagios

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What do you need for a company with 200
extensions?
What do you need for a company with 200
extensions?
Nagios
ETH2
ETH2
ETH1
Master
Slave
LAN RAID Heartbeat
ETH 0
ETH 0
200 IP-Phones
Telekom
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Monitoring your Asterisk-Servers

• CPU
• Memory
• Hard-Disk
• Network-Traffic
• Services (Asterisk, mySQL, Apache etc)?
• Heartbeat
• DRBD
• RAID
• SIP / IAX calls
• and many more....

www.nagios.org
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How much does it cost?
a little less than 50,000 USD
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Live Demo Asterisk-Cluster and Monitoring
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Some new Solutions adapted by our clients
Deskphone - Replacement
Level 60, Twin-Towers
Asterisk
Level 59, Twin-Towers
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Some new Solutions adapted by our clients
all communication between MOPU and HQ are done
via Asterisk and satellite links
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MAUG Malaysian Asterisk User-Group
www.maug.com.my
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Enjoy the ride ! You can contact
via daniel.ali_at_mcsb.com