[Asterisk-Users] newbie questions

[Chris Wade]

Fred Blaise wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:48 -0600, Chris Wade wrote:
>> janvb at caselaboratories.com wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>>> My second question: for a branch office of about 20 people, which E1
>>>> card do you advise? Would the TE210P be a good choice? (number of
>>>> concurrent calls would be max 10 for now) Why?
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> An E1 has 30 lines, so you would be perfect with a TE110P. Connecting an 
>>> E1 to a company PABX is however an expensiveoption, so you might want to 
>>> compare the prices with 10 analogue lines or maybe 5 BRI lines. I would 
>>> not  let the price of hardware decide this because  you  will need to 
>>> pay a fixed cost per month for PSTN lines, so check these prices first. 
>>> Asterisk is scalable in the sence that you can add more later if you 
>>> have an available PCI slot.
>> Even though they don't appear to be shipping yet, don't forget the 
>> TDM2400P's from Digium.  Up to 24 FXO or FXS ports per full length PCI card.
> ok. So, with this in mind, if I was to acquire that 24 ports, 1 FXO
> modules, the rest FSX modules. I could have 1 public telephone number to
> the PSTN (3 wasted for this example), 20 analog phones inside the
> company's branch, each phone having its extension in Asterisk? Or could
> I have just the smaller card allowing me 1 FSO and 3 FSX and some kind
> of "hub" to connect some number of analog phones (let's say 20)? If so,
> does the number of FXS limit the number of my simultaneous telephone
> calls?
> 
> Sorry for the dumb questions, but your answers are highly appreciated.

Sorry, but there is really no such thing as a "hub" for telephone lines. 
  Each analog phone must be plugged into its own FXS port.

-- 
Christopher L. Wade, CCNA, CCDA, CQS-CIPCES, CQS-CWLSS