[Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

[Andy Hamilton]

And then you'd need to purchase 700 VoIP phones; not a small investment.
With all due respect to Mr. Schelin, I think the analog method may be
best, unless you plan to expand the services that you offer to the
guests. If the rooms did have cat3, you could eventually expand your
offering to include internet access for the guests, advanced phone
features (on the IP phones), etc...
I stray from the topic.

You'll be facing some sort of hardware investment aside from the
server, I think, and that is either IP Phones or a lot of hardware to
support the analog lines, per Rusty's suggestion.

Granted, this will be a large project, I think it would be wise to
weigh the benefits of going to IP Phones now that will most likely go
mainstream in the near future or support an aging but solid analog
technology.

-Andy



On 4/15/05, Michael D Schelin <mike at shelcomm.com> wrote:
> If your rooms analog phones are wired with cat 3 cabling you can do 10
> Mb over it.  Convert all the rooms to Ethernet  and use large switches.
> One Asterisk box should do the trick. Remember not every room will be
> using  the phone  system at the same time.  This should work for you.
> 
> 
> shane fowler wrote:
> 
> > we are looking at the ability of being able to convert large phone
> > system over to asterisk or if it's possible at all.  The building is
> > two sections containing a large office section (with data cabling) and
> > the second section is a hotel with no data cabling.  The first section
> > is a no brainer with sip hard and soft phones but the hotel part is
> > where the problem lies.
> >
> > The current count of rooms in the hotel is about 600...that's at a
> > minimum 600 analog connections.  Some rooms have 2-3 phones so as a
> > rough number i'm saying 700 total.  I see where some people use the
> > Adit 600 to do up to 48 analog connections that trunks over 2 T1
> > connections back to asterisk but for 700 phones thats 15 Adits with 30
> > T1's....how in the world would you do that??  just several asterisk
> > servers with 2-3 Adits per server?  is there any other way?  I'm open
> > to suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks..
> >
> > Shane
> >
> >
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