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This company has a horrific rating. States they changed. Now I see some recent reviews 10/07 after the change indiciating bad experiences. This site appears to be comprehensive, but not much up to date info. 7-8 reviews in the last year??

I have two wifi systems running in the house. One Cisco Aeronet, the newest is a Xirrus Wifi Lan Array.
Each unit has 4 active radios and can handle up to 50 users (or 6 voip phones). There is a unit
on each floor of my home. These are 802.1g orthogonal phased array so you can get 6 channels out of them (802.1g is normally only 3). This is professional office gear, but I am a network engineer.

I picked up a few wifi phones and the linksys WIP300's do very well and are inexpensive.
Wired phones connect to a central Cisco WS-C2950C-24 in the basement, upper floor
has fiber inlay with MMF connection to upper floor WS-C2950C-24. VOip sets are
not auto discovered, but are set up for DSCP 46, (EF) and mapped to a Strict PQ.
My outbound connections are Verizon Fios (30Mbs/10Mbs), and backup is Cablevision
enhanced (30Mbs/5Mbs). (Sounds overkill, but the Fios has gone out on me, while I can't
recall in the last 5 years I lost the Cable internet. So need a backup... (used to be Cable
and 3Mbs/768Kbs DSL before Fios). Firewall is a Sonicwall 2040 set up to load balance by session
and QOS enabled. (Current system is a 4 line Panazsonic wireless system on it's last legs)
I am replacing 4 Verizon pots lines and 1 fax line and so far the wireless VOIP phones,
computer access, and wired phones are clean on my network with QOS enabled.

I picked up a 6"x6"x2" Digital Extreme 945, Pentium M 2.0Ghz, 1GB ram, 32GB Flash
Ram, and have asterisk running on Fedora core. (This is kind of cool as the unit casing is
a large heat-sink itself and hence has no fan requirement, and with a small linux kernel on there the 32GB Flash Drive means there are no moving parts in this little 6"x6"x2" computer except
the CD-RW/DVD-RW, but that was only used to load s/w, and to write data out once in a while
to a cd or DVD.

Now I need a company that supports asterisk and this looks like it has most of the features I want.
Others seem to support Asterisk even more, even have configs, but are missing basic things
I cant live without like Caller-ID. It is surprising to me how many do not support "Forward
line when network unreachable", that is something I know Vonage, Verizon, AT&T all support,
but none of the main BYOD guys seem to, which from this site seems to be Vonics, BBTelsys, Via:Talk, and callCentric.

Anyone have recent experience with Asterisk and this new BBTelsys??
I don't mind being a pioneer, but i want the provider to have redundancy and
professional equipment. I do!

Thanks in advance.