[Asterisk-biz] Any advise on replacing an existing analog installation with Asterisk

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, smbPBX wrote:

> The customer wants to replace the existing PBX but not the phones and
> existing wiring; primarily becuase of the existing investment in analog
> phones AND no LAN wiring in place for IP Phones to connect.
> 
> A single Asterisk server would require one T1 for 24 incoming trunks and
> 9 T1 and 9 channel banks to serve 200 analog phones!!!
> 
> I am sure some of you have dealt with situation - any general ideas how
> to go about accomplishing this?
Three Digium or Sangoma quad-port cards. 

-alex