Hi,

i’m managing a voip system in the company where i work (i inheritted the system). We have a freepbx system running on an old pc which sounds like it’s going to give up anytime soon. also i don’t like how slow and limited the machine is (takes 5+ min to access the web gui, freepbx not activated, no admin console and overall i never worked with freepbx). first idea was to get a new machine and run 3cx self-hosted, but their yearly subscription went thru the roof recently. i was managing 3cx before and i know to admin it, but pricing is uff.

so option 2 is a hardware dedicated voip central - grandstream ucm6301 sounds like what we need - we have 30 extensions, a few call groups, a simple IVR with 5 selections, work hours and out of work hours recording and routing, plus a few rules for internal calls going out thru the gsm gateway.
all extensions are 3 digit, cisco and yealink ip phones. no analog phones. 2 sip trunks to provider. No mobile phone app needed.

i’d buy 2 and use them in HA mode.
also we have a video door phone that works well with a yealink phone, so not sure if i need a grandstream that supports video, but the price difference between ucm6301 and ucm6300A (audio-only model) is not big…
system is running on it’s own subnet on a vlan. trunks are connected to a provider directly with no internet connectivity (dedicated voip port on the ISP gateway).

any advice on this ? IS this a good choice of hardware and overall upgrade?

thanks

  • Igorrr52OPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    we’d like to have this in-house like we had till now. cloud pbx is not an option, as we need telephone service in case of internet outage, and we have them. infrastructure here is what it is. it’s also a reason we have gsm gateway. we can’t depend on internet for telephony. (we also run our servers locally and nothing is online because of internet instability).

    i don’t see the pbx system as security issue if the system is completely offline from internet. for telephony we do and always will depend on ISP to provide numbering and trunks, it’s a business agreement that we have to keep landline internet, voip and mobile phones on them to get an overall cheaper service. we’re a business client and have SLA with them too.

    so nobody wants to go cloud, but i’d like something that is easy to maintain. i was considering engaging an outside company to make the move from freepbx to grandstream and afterwards i’d only be managing it from time to time, setting up holidays on the machine and changing extensions when people come and go, like i do now.
    why would grandstream ucm be a bad idea? 30 ext, max 5 cc… i saw yeastar centrals for triple the price and while working on a s20 i didn’t see it’s offering anything more than a grandstream, except maybe softphones, which we don’t need.