[Asterisk-Users] Help - is voip good for in-house calls?

[Francis Augusto Medeiros]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:03:49 -0300, Nicolas Gudino <nicolas at house.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi Francis,
> 
> If you already have the analog telephone wiring in place, and you are on
> a budget, I recomend you to use sipura spa-2000 adapters. They are a
> whole lot better than GS phones. You can have 3way conferences and
> attendant transfers. With GS you cannot do that. The price is as good
> for the sipuras as the GS phones, about $50 per FXS port, plus a cheap
> analog phone and you will be all set.

The thing is that it's a new office, so we can choose what kind of
wiring to use...

> > My concerns are most latencies. Our network will be a switch with lots
> > of ports, all 100mb/s, with VERY low traffic.

> Internal calls (SIP to SIP) will sound great. You will probably
> experience some echo when going to POTS. I did not try the Sipura
> SPA-3000 yet, but it seems to be a cheap alternative to a gateway,
> providing you with one FXO and one FXS for $130 or so. the echo
> cancellation in the sipura works well for fxs, it might work well to for
> fxo.

Gracias Nicolas! I'll really give it a look... Too bad that with this
option I'll loose the LCD's, but, what the heck... ;)

Cheers,

Francis