Logicwrath Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 We will be pitching our services to school's and I suspect one issue that might arise will be what happens when the power goes out etc..I suspect this questions might come up.Is there some kind of edge device that will keep local extensions and paging working in an emergency?Any plans on building a Raspberry PI type device that syncs with the cluster for this type of thing? I suspect that would be a huge undertaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FASTDEVICE Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Never used, but hear CradlePoint is a good solution for high availability incorporating 4G LTE failover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Stallknecht Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 While what you are mentioned would be cool, I think the best option is LTE failover. We always do POE back to a POE switch or main injector when doing installs, and we always put those devices on a UPS. Combine that with LTE failover and you're probably going to be rock solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logicwrath Posted April 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Yea, maybe that is the best option. I was thinking about using 3G/4G modems in my Mikrotik firewalls and just creating rules that only allow VoIP devices to use the connection if the main Internet is down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuly Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Or you can use the new 2600HZ Mobile hotspot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logicwrath Posted April 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Yes, I thought about using the 2600hz mobile product for dual WAN implementations. I probably won't sell more than 50 devices of mobile anytime soon and the monthly access fee turns me off of it.If dual WAN is the best answer here I will start investigating those options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Robbins Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 Logicwrath - we built a pretty sweet survivable solution for a restaurant client recently. (They already have a Cradlepoint 4G backup but that wasn't enough). - Yealink phones, Grandstream GS-UCM6102 which is an inexpensive PBX. The phones register to 2600 and we also register account 2 to the local PBX but we don't display a button on the phone. So it's always registered but only used if line 1 is down (hosted PBX). This device takes 2 POTS lines and we have their inbound set to failover to these POTS lines if all phones are down at the site. We're also integrated with their Valcom paging system using a Grandstream ATA - works great in failover. Contact me if you want the details - it works really well for <$200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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