[Asterisk-Users] newbie questions

[Fred Blaise]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 01:09 +0100, janvb at caselaboratories.com wrote:
> You can put analogue phones in series, but I am not sure how many phones 
> a FSX connection will drag and I don't think the cards are designed for 
> it - don't know. Sounds to me as you would benefit from downloading 
> Asterisk and play around with a few softphones first and maybe buy 
> Digiums starter kit, cause you need to take into mind that Asterisk is 
> not realy a Plug & Play environment, it do require people who are 
> comfortable with the command prompt on Linux and have the time to fiddle 
> around with this (or money to pay someone to do so)
Thanks to all. I have a better idea now.

Linux is not the issue, I know it quite well. However, I know _nothing_
about telephony (traditional or voIP)... in a process of getting onto
that learning curve...
> 
> jan
fred
> 
> 
> Chris Wade wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
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