[cisco-voip] VG350 Gateway ... anyone deployed this yet?

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Definitely something to consider. I usually consider five years into the total cost of ownership. I don't think the VG224s are going anywhere though.

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On 2013-04-21, at 8:59 AM, "Heim, Dennis" <Dennis.Heim at wwt.com> wrote:

> I wonder what the smartnet pricing delta is between the 224 and 350.
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> From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
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> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] VG350 Gateway ... anyone deployed this yet?
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> Even when you look at 4pack prices?
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> On 2013-04-20, at 1:10 PM, Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It's cheaper per-port than the VG224, by about 10-15% last time I ran then numbers.  Plus you get less management points. The cards also have some nice features - passthrough FXO, some higher voltages on certain ports, etc.
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> The snag a few people have hit is that it requires 8.6.2, there's no .cop file to apply it to 8.5 and previous versions.
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> -nick
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> Has anyone deployed a VG350 gateway recently? I believe it was announced only last summer. It's a high density analog gateway, part of the VGXXX family. It's a 3900 series router with high density voice modules on it.
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> I still have to do a port cost analysis, but thought I'd ask about experience. Some advantages I see are one device configuration and only one (or two with redundancy) uplink ports needed. Power savings may be a wash, not sure yet. Of course, with one device, comes one point of failure. 
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> Any thoughts would be welcome.
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> Lelio
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