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

[Herman Webley]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:28 -0400, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> I beg to differ. Channel banks are a dime a dozen (500$ ish), quad cards 
> are 1500$ish list, complete setup 500*9+1500*3=9000$. Replacing phones 
> with IP phones is at least 125$ for not-completely-ghetto-phone each - 
> meaning at least 25k$ for the phones, not to mention necessary rewiring 
> from cat1 to cat5.

Where can one get channels banks for $500?

Best regards,
Herman