[Asterisk-Users] Cisco MC3810

[Steve Szmidt]

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On Monday 02 August 2004 11:09 am, Wayde Nie wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm new to asterisk and trying to get together the hardware to run a few
> POTS phone extentions and one or two POTS lines for starters. For these low
> port counts, I could just go with FXS and FXO cards, but...
>
> I can get a Cisco MC3810 with a mixture of FXO and FXS ports, the MC3810
> comes with a built in ethernet port and I believe it does SIP too...
>
> Will this mean that I won't need a T1 card and dedicated channel bank? ie.
> Asterisk connected over ethernet with the MC3810 and the POTS lines and
> stations connected to the MC3810? Does it work that way? Any other
> limitations or gotcha's with this approach? (I'm new to this and want to
> confirm before I go too far down this path...)
>
> I found a couple of posts in the archive, but I wasn't sure if they were
> using a T1 card in the MC3810 or not.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Wayde Nie.

It's really kinda silly to have a great box like Asterisk and not use VoIP 
with it. Whenever you use a VoIP phone all you need is the network 
connection. That is the best way of using Asterisk.

There's a good idea to have a Digium card as some Asterisk functions require a 
clock signal, from one of their cards.

You can always use s/w to generate the clock but h/w is more solid.
- -- 
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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