[Asterisk-Users] FXS or VOIP

[William Boehlke]

A single computer will handle hundreds of telephones. Just get a card with
more ports, or use an external gateway.


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jim Freeze
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXS or VOIP

On 1/11/06, William Boehlke <william.boehlke at signate.com> wrote:
>
> You can save a little money with analog phones however if that saving is
not
> an issue business class VoIP phones from providers like Polycom and Cisco
> have more features and much of the time better call quality.

Thanks William for the response.
That is good news about the phone quality.

>From what I have read, I think the overall cost would still be cheaper
with a voip solution, even if the phones are more.

A 4 line FXS card is about $3-400 (I think). If I understand this correctly,
even if I have only 4 lines incoming, I need an FXS homerun to each phone.
So for 5 phones, I would need 2 cards. And, the O'Reilly book says that
I should not put 2 cards in the same box, so I would need another computer.

I was hoping a single computer could handle up to 10 voip phones. Am I
deluding myself?

Jim

> Hi
>
> I am setting up a phone system for a small office.
> The office will have 5-8 phones and a fax line.
> There are 4 hunt lines coming into the office.
> We have made no hardware purchase yet.
>
> Being an asterisk newbie, before I suscribed to this list I just
> assumed that I would buy voip phones and connect
> all the phones to a private ethernet network.
>
> However, I see many people inquiring about FXS cards.
>
> Is there any reason why I would need to consider using
> analog phones and FXS cards? Seems to me the cheapest
> way is with voip phones and voice quality should be good
> since the phones are on a private network that only has
> voice traffic.
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Jim Freeze
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