I don’ t have a NethServer saving as example but it very well could be a NethServer implementation.
A friend of mine is sysadmin at a secondary school. This is a reasonably large school with about 3k students. For the school the were looking for a new landline telephone solution. They asked several providers and companies what it would cost to implement a VoIP solution for around 80 telephones.
The cheapest came with a quote of just under EUR200k,- for the VoIP central and 80 IP Phones.
Yes you read it right: two hundred thousend Euro
He is an opensource enthousiast and he thought, there must be a way to cut the price.
After some investigation and a lot of reading how to set up an Asterisk server, he wrote a plan for the board of the school. He played it ‘safe’ and decided to invest in a fairly large dedicated server of EUR6000,-
On that server he installed FreePBX on it. For another 10k he bought 80 VoIP phones which could directly be plugged into their VLAN capable switch they already had.
Sure he had to spend quite some time, but a savings of almost EUR180.000,- is IMO a great example why opensource can be a gamechanger in small but also in large environments.
Since NethServer can serve Asterisk too this very well COULD have been a NethServer story…
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