Voip System For Office

[kudroz]

I'm setting up my office here in Chiang Mai, and I was wondering what solution I should go with for the phones. I could get a few TT&T lines and then pay for the installation of 24 phones in the office; or

Would it be possible to find some kind of Thai VoIP provider that could provide me with a few Thai telephone numbers, and then I would just have to install a software phone on each computer to receive calls and to dial out as well. Would it possible to transfer calls and have voicemail too?

What should be my budget for this, how much does it cost to get this going? Anyone has experience with this?

[stumonster]

maybe Asterisk could be a solution for you

its open source

http://www.asterisk.org/

[klikster]

maybe Asterisk could be a solution for you

its open source

http://www.asterisk.org/

Or Callweaver. Lots of info here on Callweaver, Asterisk, et.al.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CallWeaver

[tjo o tjim]

We finally got Asterisk working in our office with one of the analog cards. Happy to have all the flexibility that it offers, but it took us most of 8 months of farting around with it to make it work. We were faced with an installation/set-up charge from one company that was just too high... and another that was just too low to end up with something that would make us happy.

It's a great thing to use, but if you do hire someone to set it up, I would suggest reading through the configuration files (dialplan) first to help understand what options are available.

The asterisk now disks worked fairly well out of the box, until you wanted to manually modify the dialplan (outside of the gui).

[photojourn]

Why didn't you ask?

You forgot to say that your office is Mac based.

Hhmm, try these. These are all VoIP solutions:

Express Talk VoIP Softphone (available for Mac or Windows) free for the basic system http://www.nch.com.au/talk/sip.html

Loudhush - but it requires Asteriks PBX - http://www.loudhush.ro/

X-Lite, Brie or Eye beam (Mac and Windows) http://counterpath.com/index.php?menu=Prod...amp;smenu=xlite

There's a bunch of applications that work with standard hard-wired telephone's and offer caller identity, call recording, voice mail, etc. But from the original post I think the above are what you are looking for.

Thailand VoIP providers listed here: http://www.myvoipprovider.com/Directory/Vo...VoIP_Providers/

Anything else??