Digium releases new AA300 Appliance to replace AA350NR
June 26th, 2008 | Published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Digium has just announced the release of their new AA300 Appliance. This new appliance replaces the AA350NR and have a few additional advantages over its predecessor. According to Digium, here are some of the highlights:
* More Versatile: The AA300 can be rack mounted or wall mounted. Please note that the AA300 ships with rack handles only. Rails and wall mount kits are sold separately.
* Less Expensive: The AA300 & Switchvox SMB bundle price remains the same, but the extended warranty and cold spare costs are lower.
* Capacity: The AA300 has a smaller form factor but can still handle the same number of calls and users as the AA350NR.
The AA300 will retail with the Switchvox SMB 10 user license at $4,240…. no change here over the AA350NR.
The big price change is with the cold spare which dropped from $2,295 for the AA350NR to $1,895 for a AA300NR.
As of this date, you will no longer be able to purchase the AA350.
I’m probably a bigger fan of Switchvox than any other Asterisk based IP PBX…. partially because they’re owned by Digium and partially because it’s a very solid product for the SMB market. We’ll still keep deploying our raw Asterisk systems to large enterprises but when that SMB pops by every now and again, Switchvox it is.
July 18th, 2008at 4:36 pm(#)
FYI, the AA350NR was replaced by the AA300 not the AA350. The Appliances offered are the AA60 (small), AA300 (medium, replaced the AA350NR) and the AA350 (large).