[asterisk-biz] Anyone experienced in cable telephony?

[Steve Totaro]

If in fact you are going to use IP as the transport, I think to offset
some of the startup costs, I would offer customers an option to buy or
upgrade to a router with FXS ports.  Call it "Digital Phone Service",
not "VoIP Service".  Now you only have two pieces of equipment at the
customer's location.

Also, don't "sell" the equipment, rent it for a small monthly fee.  My
mother has three cable boxes that she uses even though she has cable
ready TV and that has been going on for at least fifteen or twenty
years.  She has been paying $5 a month for each box even though it is
an extra part.

This will help tremendously in cutting support issues and costs as
well, since the router/ATA is on a public IP (I assume) so no NAT on
the customer's side for the ATA.

Thanks,
Steve

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, C. Savinovich
<c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
>
> Analog POTS?... don't think so because that would imply having to use dslams
> (pardon me if I am wrong)... they already purchased the cable modems and lo
> and behold, the cable modems don't have telephony ports.  Definitely the
> medium is IP, where we can probably use 3 devices (one router, one cable
> modem, and one ata).  The part where I am not too clear is on the provider
> side, what equipment handles the partitioning, et al.
>
> CS
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:49 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Anyone experienced in cable telephony?
>
> C. Savinovich wrote:
>
>> I have an opportunity to provide telephony to a small cable provider in a
>> foreign country... about 500 subscribers.  Will anybody know what
> equipment
>> is necessary on the provider side to provide asterisk based telephony?
> Any
>> links or pointers where to find info will be appreciated.
>
> That depends on what the intended medium and transport is.  Are they
> looking to provide analog POTS (i.e. FXO ports broken out of RJ-11
> jacks)?  Are they looking to get it to the customer as IP or use some
> sort of voice-over-RF contraption like some cable MSOs in the US use in
> certain parts?
>
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
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