Cisco vs. Polycom - Phone System
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
All great points, and we'll back to doing what they want because they can fire us, and it's rarely worth caring more for our jobs than the company does.
Right, that's the biggest deal. If you are confident with your boss, a quick "I've heard that VoIP and Asterisk could save us a large fortune and protect the school long term" and see if that is met with a "oh, let's dig into this" or "never mention this to anyone" stare.
Oh man... my boss at the K12 would give me that stare all the time. I know it well.
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LOL - my friend started working for a small district about 3 years ago. Almost on day one he had to find a vendor to install a new server for them...
He shelled out over 20K for a one server SAN solution... and to top that, it only have one VM on it.
I laugh my ass off every day I hear about that.. glad it's in another state wasting their money... If it was local and I KNEW about it.. I'd report it to the news.. see if they'd make a story out of it.
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This is the kind of thing I often point to about how schools aren't short on money at all. They spend it lavishly all of the time. In places where it does no good. Schools might be short on education, but if they are cutting programs it is because they want to not because they lack financial resources. The money is flowing out of them like crazy and no one cares.
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To add some on topic input. Last year I ported 50 lines from TDS Telecom ($25k/year for hosted PBX with metered use) and it took almost three months to port all of our numbers. In the end we ended up being unable to port some, namely ones that had been previously ported from Vonage to TDS. Now we run FreePBX in house with all Polycom IP450 (found a lot of them going for $35 each) and spend far less than that.
My point here is, even if you get approval to move forward, and for the political reasons outlined above I wouldn't poke the bear, it will likely be an uphill battle with TDS.
