[Asterisk-Users] 8 lines - best approach

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 23 January 2004 12:18, Paul Mahler wrote:
> On Friday, January 23, 2004 at 8:04 AM, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:30, Darren Martz wrote:
> > > I have 8 lines coming into an existing PBX system and am looking
> > > for a cost
> > > effective way to replace the existing system with Asterisk. We
> > > need some of
> > > the features in Asterisk, including its ability to support remote
> > > offices (long distance savings).
> > >
> > > At first glance this appears to require a T100P card and a channel
> > > bank, but
> > > that seems rather expensive. My estimated price on that would be
> > > roughly $2600 for 8 lines given that system - perhaps my estimate
> > > is way off????
> > >
> > > Is there another way that is more cost effective?
> >
> > That number sounds about right. It is likely that it will be less,
> > but budgeting that much for hardware is a good start.
> 
> Do you have to continue to use the existing handsets? You should look
> at replacing the existing phones with SIP phones.

He did say "cost-effective".  Last I checked, 24 SIP phones (unless they
are Grandstreams) will cost far more than a channel bank.

-Tilghman