Case Study: Emit achieves scalable telephony and $1,000+ monthly savings with Digium's Asterisk

Asterisk Provides Engineering Firm an Expandable Telephony Solution and Thousands in Monthly Cost Savings

Emit, Inc., a 35-person engineering firm with offices in Nashville and Austin, was constrained by a 12‑year‑old Avaya IP Office system running on two T1 lines. The aging TDM setup prevented adding extension modules, cost about $800/month, and a new hosted or capex phone system was out of budget — prompting the team to seek help via Twitter.

With guidance from Computer Business Solutions, Emit installed Asterisk on an existing PC using Digium cards and a TE820 card and managed it with FreePBX. They replaced the T1s with SIP trunks ($120/month), deployed softphones and Polycom phones, added firewall and backup hardware, and completed the rollout in under a month — cutting capital costs, saving well over $1,000/month, removing extension limits, and achieving a reliable, scalable VoIP solution.

Emit

Brian Harris

Sales Manager