[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[Michael Graves]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:14:12 -0800, Sys Admin wrote:

>each of the desks already has two rj45 network ports so it makes sense
>for me to put a sipura 2001 at each of the deks rather then getting a
>channel bank and then having to do new cabling,
>
>will i be ok with ordering 25 of the sipura 2001 since each one of
>them have 2 FXS ports. Or  are there firmware/voice quality/asterisk
>integration issues to use both FXS ports on a sipura 2001
>simultaneously.
>
>t
>
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>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:52:48 -0600, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:46:41 -0800, Sys Admin wrote:
>> 
>> >after two days of experiments finally decided to go with sipura 2001.
>> >
>> >I was wondering to support a 50 people call center do i need 25 sipura
>> >2001 or 50 of these ?
>> >
>> >t
>> >
>> 
>> For such a large installation you'd be far better of with a channel
>> bank to provide FXS ports. Much less network cabling and hassle. You'd
>> use a t-1 connection to bridge between * and the channel bank. The wiki
>> has lots of detail on this stuff.
>> 

If you already have all that Cat5 then why not consider low end IP
phones? 

I shudder to think about having to configure and support all those
SPAs. All those wall-wart PSUs.

Seems less than elegant.

Michael

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