new broadband and VOiP

[Janyo]

Hi,

 

I was wondering if anyone out there has been through a very tough process of moving away from local LEA and sourcing new broadband and IP telephony. We are looking at 100Mb broadband with VOiP provider. We have looked at LGfL which has very good price for the services provided. However, it comes without phones! We had a quote from atomwide telephony for £3000 set up (one form entry primary school) + quarterly charges + phone bills.

 

Thanks for helping!

[Ogdos]

Give Wave 9 a call. Very impressed so far.

[SchoolsBroadband]

We are here and can do all you require. Certainly we dont have a £3k setup for VoIP for a small school!

[fiza]

Go with LGfL for broadband and get your telephony from someone else. That is what we did.

[Janyo]

Would it be possible t get VoIp quote from you?

[Janyo]

Go with LGfL for broadband and get your telephony from someone else. That is what we did.

 

Who did you pick for telephony?

[SchoolsBroadband]

Would it be possible t get VoIp quote from you?

 

Of course.

 

I'll PM you by monday at the latest.

 

Dave

[fiza]

Who did you pick for telephony?

We went with Spitfire and 3CX

[gmonks]

My advice would be to split the broadband from the VoIP.

 

You don't want the quality of the phones to be affected if your broadband is being hammered and you also don't want to have both the phones and school broadband to go down at once if there was to be a problem.

 

We've split ours and have 2 different providers to avoid the above.

[Wave9_Lee]

My advice would be to split the broadband from the VoIP.

 

You don't want the quality of the phones to be affected if your broadband is being hammered and you also don't want to have both the phones and school broadband to go down at once if there was to be a problem.

 

We've split ours and have 2 different providers to avoid the above.

 

Each to their own : )

 

My advice would be to have both from the same provider, that way you have one support organisation to call, one bill and no arguments about who is responsible for what. If you deploy QOS properly, then voice quality won't be affected by a busy broadband line. I take your point about potential for both services to fail, but would suggest a second line, with both voice and broadband balanced across the two, so you have resilience for both data and voice.

 

Our packages include free handsets and free calls and minimal set up.

 

cheers