Originally posted by escomm12:
Looking for low cost ideas at this point.
From your description of the scenario it looks like the customer has been looking at "low cost" from the start. Whatever the outcome with the hosted it is not going to get them the features you mention, that will only successfully be deployed using IPO's at each site, or remote VoIP phones off of the main IPO at least. And further, it will not end up to be low cost because it will not work like they want and end up costing way more time and money than they are being proposed to make it work 1/2 the way they are desiring.
If they insist on going the hosted route I would walk away. Nicely let them know that you do not think they will be happy with the outcome and that you will be there for them when they decide to deploy a system that will work to their full satisfaction.
With that in thought, why not host the remote sites off the main site? It will work better than them having hosted systems at each site with NO tie into the main site. Then if they are not getting good sounding service they can always install a local IPO at the remote sites without having to toss the SIP telephones from the hosted company.
Steve
