[Asterisk-Users] Aasterisk large-scale deployment w/analog phones

[Matt Florell]

Hello,

We had over 100 ATA adapters in production 3 years ago. Now we have
less than 20. They use more power overall than Channelbanks, they are
not designed to be used 12-16 hours a day every day. You must
configure and test every one. They do not last as long as
channelbanks.

Using Channelbanks has saved us time and cost in fixing/replacing
equipment, We have not had to replace a single one of the ten
channelbanks we've had in place for the last 18 months. In the first
year of ATA usage, we had to replace 20% of our ATAs(overheating,
random dying, coffee, soda, other abuse).

As for initial purchase cost, ATA adapters are actually slightly
cheaper per port than channelbanks(if buying new).

MATT---


On 2/15/06, Dovid Bender <asteriskdigium at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I may be missing something here but why wouldnt ATA's
> work ? (other than cost).
> --- maka <icokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hello,
> >
> > I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system,
> > using analog phones. It will
> > consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have
> > access to a VoIP server.
> > I am considering an option to use a couple of
> > asterisk boxes, bundled with a
> > total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.
> >
> > Has anyone on this list done something similar? It
> > would be great to hear
> > some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning -
> > Do you think is it better
> > to distribute resources among multiple (more than
> > two), lower-port-density
> > asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a
> > channelbank for that purpose?
> >
> > Cheers
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