[Asterisk-Users] 8 lines - best approach

[David Liu]

What card would that be?  I would be interested to test it out.


David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asterisk" <thisemailaddressisbogus at risehigh.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] 8 lines - best approach


> How about a 16 port FXO/FXS card (your choice of FXO/FXS modules or any
> mix of them) for $999. Will that be a good option?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman
> Lesher
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 5:35 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 8 lines - best approach
> 
> 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
> 
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