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

[Herman Webley]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 02:54 +0000, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:43:57AM -0500, Herman Webley wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> used on ebay usually is what they are referring to.
> 

I saw these zhone channel banks on eBay. $199 new open box.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Channel-Bank-24-FXS-T1-Asterisk-PBX-Plug-and-Play_W0QQitemZ5877144663QQcategoryZ51271QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


I don't think I'm interested in them, but maybe someone else?

Best regards,
Herman Webley