-Suppose you require 50 extensions.
-Suppose you own 30 US DID's
-Suppose you hardly ever exceed 30 simultaneous calls.
-Suppose 95% of the calls are to and from US.
-Suppose you have a rock-solid voip trunk provider.
-Suppose that trunk provider would allow maximum of 50 simultaneous calls.
-Suppose you (and the office) are located (far) outside of US.
-Suppose the trunk provider's servers are all over US, but not near your location.
-Suppose the numbers (extensions, DID's, simultaneous calls....) are expected to grow.
= Option A =
Set up a pbx (say, trixbox) locally, and connect to voip trunk provider in US for all inbound and outbound calls.
= Option B =
No local pbx setup. let each ip phone connect directly to the voip trunk provider's server and have them manage the entire 50 extensions (extensions, call routing, vm, ivr,.....).
One person thinks we ought to go with Option A because that's pretty much what everyone else is doing. And it is good to have complete control over the pbx system.
Another says to go with Option B and bypass local pbx server (he says it's another risk). Yes, it may cost some more, but how much can that be? how often the changes will be?
Hmm... Now, what do you say?
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