[Asterisk-Users] Hardware Recommendations

[Yair Hakak]

if by "digital phone" you mean IP phone like a grandstream or a snom,
then yes, you don't need any additional hardware to connect to *
(except an rj45 cable, of course.)
-yair


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:19:18 -0400, David Ishmael
<dishmael at windwardcg.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I'm sure this has been asked more times than anyone cares to count, but I
> want to make sure I get the right stuff. I'm installing Asterisk at home
> solely to play with and learn VoIP (plus it sounds pretty cool so it has
> that going for it too). Eventually all my phones (~4 of them) will go
> through my Asterisk system. I've ordered my server hardware, here's what
> I've got: 
> 
> Trinity GC-SL 
> Intel 2.66 533MHz 
> 512MB PC2100 ECC 
> WD 160GB IDE 
> 
> And some minor stuff (cdrom, floppy, etc.). Since this is strictly an
> educational platform for one person, I would think that's more than enough
> to handle my small number of calls. So I'm comfortable with that much...it's
> the Digium hardware I'm struggling with. What I'd like to do is connect the
> Asterisk PBX to my PSTN phone line so I think I need an X100P so I can make
> and take external PSTN calls, correct? 
> 
> I don't own a digital phone yet, so I think I also need to get at least one
> IAXy module for one of my analog phones (I'm still trying to figure out what
> kind of digital phone to get, recommendations are welcomed there too). I
> assume that any digital phone I get can talk to the PBX over Ethernet so I
> shouldn't need additional cards for that. Am I way off base on any of this
> or am I going in the right direction?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
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