[Asterisk-Users] Phone interface hardware

[VoIP Newbie]

If it is expensive to get a separate LAN connection for analog phone
adapters, you can get one with 2 ethernet port and 1 FXS port such
that
it can connect your PC and analog phone over a single cable to the
network. It is not difficult to find such kind of analog adapters for
around US$50 or lower. There is also models that provide a FXO port
for connecting to PSTN.


On 8/6/05, MF Hulber <asterisk-admin at hulber.com> wrote:
> Without having said why you want to connect the phone through the
> computers I have a hard time understanding why you want to do that.  As
> someone else has suggested, either buy IP phones and connect them
> directly to your LAN or buy analog adapters and use your existing phones.
> 
> I don't see the S100U listed on the Digium site as a current product.
> You can get a bunch of SPA 1001's for under $60 each.  If you start
> getting cards for all of your computers you now have to support the
> installation and maintenance of those everywhere.  Most of the analog
> adapters support remote administration.
> 
> MARK.
> 
> Raja Chidambaram wrote:
> 
> >--- Raja Chidambaram <raja_chidambaram82 at yahoo.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT)
> >>From: Raja Chidambaram
> >><raja_chidambaram82 at yahoo.com>
> >>Subject: Phone interface hardware
> >>To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> >>
> >>Hello All,
> >>
> >>We are in the process of putting together an asterix
> >>based phone network in our office. The office would
> >>only have a LAN (i.e. no phone cables around). The
> >>users would use soft phones from the PCs (running
> >>linux). We would also like the have the ability to
> >>connect analog phones to these PCs and use these
> >>through asterix. It would be really good if we can
> >>connect these phones through some device connected
> >>to
> >>the USB interface. If not we would like to connect
> >>through a PCI card.
> >>
> >>Is that this type of asterisk setup is possible? If
> >>so, what are the hardware that we can use for
> >>connecting analog phones to the PCs (through USB or
> >>PCI)? If this is not possible do you have any
> >>suggestion for alternatives?
> >>
> >>We also heard about S100U, a FXO to USB converter.
> >>Do
> >>you think we can use this for what we need? Is that
> >>S100U is reliable product to buy? Most of the mails
> >>we
> >>could see on S100U are older than 2 years. Is this a
> >>currently supported product?
> >>
> >>Note once again we need this hardware for providing
> >>an
> >>analog phone interface on a machine that does not
> >>run
> >>asterisk. This phone would need to communicate with
> >>the Asterisk running on a different server.
> >>
> >>Rajaram
> >>
> >>
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