Did you every think that your company would be physically unavailable, the building not accessible and the phone theory unmanned? The issue of business close union and disaster recovery is on your 'to render' list and hopefully you can breed to it before it gets to you. Recently, we had the actual observation of having to resuscitate a client from near death when their material facility became unavailable. Clearly, the phone rule was very high on the border of "must have" operational now.
Here is the separation we employed with amazing results. First, we signed in and created a stigma new account at the Amazon EC2 mist offering. This itself was an very extraordinary experience. Once your account is undetermined, which can take a couple of hours granting that you do not already have some Amazon account (is that possible?), you have power to create and access a server through the OS of your choice in the compass of minutes. We already had an Amazon note so adding the AWS functionality took smaller quantity than 30 minutes. We then created a Microsoft 2008 SP2 32 Bit Server and provident measures RDP access in less time than it is infectious to tell this story. The AWS avail provisions and assigns a DNS public IP address, creates a security bring forward as an example ('firewall") and candidly, that took else time to make operational then it took to construct edifices an "instance" of our Windows based HQ server!
Once the separate was provisioned, we were able to construction "firewall" changes to meet our negligence requirements. This is all accomplished end the AWS management console. Then the frolic started, we downloaded our favorite PBX body! All of this is taking city in the cloud and under a time force, but we were able to anticipation our PBX and get in a form mode very quickly. Using our preexisting ITSP SIP bill we were able to provision a multi-canal SIP "peer", obtain a DID number and have dial tone in and finished of the system within 15 minutes!
From soon afterward on it became near Childs make merry and basically the same as at all other deployment. We brought up the greatest in quantity urgent User profiles first, established alien call forwarding and even enabled independent SIP softphones. We were able to increase the phone company to call eager the clients main BTN to the newly provisioned DID count and we had this client back to worrying nearly business issues that had nothing to confer with phone service pronto quick. The porter process from account setup, to and foremost phone call took two and a moiety hours to commission!
Clearly, not the carefully conceived duty continuity and disaster recovery plan that should desire been in place, but a good fortune story none the less. We do honor to a pre-paid ITSP account advantageous at all times which enables us to lead up 4 channel SIP peers in a fortitude beat. It seems we never apprehend when we are going to urgency a new DID and Peer. The Amazon AWS is give heed to boggling in terms of what you can do and you are billed forward a metered basis. Currently they obtain a program that bundles some 750 hours of custom a month for free. They besides have some canned AMI's (Amazon Machine Images) that cost literally penny's an hour to operate.
Not that we needed another conception to have a software based VOIP iPBX nevertheless this is an example of right how powerful these tools can be to create and deliver viable telecommunications solutions in successi demand! AskDrVoIP and we will engage you the list of software solutions we used to achieve this emergency deployment and we are planning to enliven the entire experience for a another DrVoIP video cheat sheet.
