[Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations

[Kerry Garrison]

You need to separate lines from call appearances. Asterisk has lines (actual
phone lines) and phones have call appearances (number of simultaneous calls
the phone can handle). You could have 1000 lines going into your Asterisk
box but the typical user doesn't need more than 2 - 4 simultaneous calls.
On the flip side, you could have 4 "lines" coming into your asterisk server
and have 100 phones with 4 call appearances each. By using Asterisk to
manage the lines, you don't need 400 phone lines to support 100 phones w/4
call appearances each.

Kerry Garrison
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dane Reugger
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:09 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations
> 
> If you have 16 call appearances or lines - how do you get to 
> line 16 - type in some code?
> 
> 
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:00 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> >   
> >> Polycom SoundPoint 601 has 4 'lines'. :)
> >>     
> >
> > Actually, it has 6 'lines' :)
> >
> >   
> >> 	Needing a 4 line phone is going to decrease your 
> choices of phones.
> >> 	
> >> 	Why do you need 4 lines?
> >>     
> >
> > He probably hasn't worked out the difference between 'call 
> appearances'
> > and lines yet.... Even a polycom 301 (with 2 'lines' can 
> handle loads 
> > of calls, I think the limit is something like 16 per line, 
> > configurable in the xml file).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adam
> >
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