[Asterisk-Users] Want to use Asterisk instead of existing MeridianNorstar system ... need some help

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Joe Dennick wrote:

> You can use the same six lines for both inbound and outbound calling
> just like you do now.  The 'roll-over' will start on line 1 and move up.
> You'll have to configure your outbound calls to start on line 6 and move
> down.  If you ever get to the point where all six are consumed, you'll
> want to expand.

What's the reason for configuring the outbound zap group in reverse order
of the incoming rollover?

> You probably can NOT use the existing Meridian phones because they are
> digital phone sets, not standard analog ones.  You can purchase 5
> TDM400P cards (assuming you have 5 available PCI slots in your Asterisk
> Server), and configure two with FXO ports (making 8 total) for the POTS
> lines and the other three with FXS ports (making 12 total) to connect to
> regular analog phone lines.

I'd be a little worried about the 5000 interrupts/s those boards would
generate.  Are people actually running systems with that many wcfxs cards?

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