[asterisk-users] Newbie Questions . . .

[Henry.L.Coleman]

By the time you purchase PCI cards for you extensions (FSO ports)you would
be better off purchasing SIP phones like Grandstream GXP 2000 this will
give you a fully featured PBX IP phone for about the same cost or less
than FSO ports. Asterisk will have no problem running 25 or more SIP
phones
Personally I would reduce the incoming analog lines to 4 (FXO) ports
and add some DID lines. This way you will only have to buy one PCI board
with 4 FXO ports


Henry L.Coleman CEO
*VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355
Toronto Ontario
Canada


> Maybe you should try this
> http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/aadk.php .
> Is very heavy loaded if 9PCI cards at a server. But is possible but not
> encourge. Maybe you can consider to have digital extension with IP phone.
> THis is my opinion.
>
> :-) good luck
>
> On 11/14/06, Jason Flatt <jason at flattfamily.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> My company currently has an older Executone PBX system that we are
>> outgrowing.
>> Rather than wait until the last minute to make a hasty decision, I
>> thought
>> it
>> would be a good idea to do some research and compare options first.  My
>> expertise is in computers and networking, and telephony systems are
>> mostly
>> foreign to me.
>>
>> What we currently have are 5 incoming POTS lines and 25 stations and are
>> wanting to add 1 or 2 more stations.  I think we might have added at
>> least
>> one more incoming line, except that the phones we have only support 5
>> lines
>> (so I'm told).  Our PBX system has room for 5 more stations, then it's
>> time
>> to buy a new one.
>>
>> I'm assuming I need to add some hardware in order to make Asterisk work
>> with
>> our existing setup, but I'm not entirely sure what.  Based on the
>> reading
>> I've done so far and my limited understanding, if we wanted to use it in
>> place of our existing PBX system, I would need to get an "analog
>> interface
>> card" (several, actually), like Digium's TDM400P, like so:
>>
>> 2 - Wildcard TDM04B cards for FXO and
>> 7 - Wildcard TDM40B cards for FXS
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> 1 - Wildcard TDM04B card for FXO and
>> 1 - Wildcard TDM22B card for FXO & FXS and
>> 7 - Wildcard TDM40B cards for FXS
>>
>> I might as well use the top configuration for future expansion.
>>
>> If I am correct, that is 9 PCI cards in a PC.  I don't know of any
>> motherboard
>> that supports that many cards, so either I'm wrong, or I'll need
>> different
>> cards, or I'll need to utilize 2 or more PCs in conjunction with each
>> other.
>> I haven't yet found any mention on the last two options, so I'm assuming
>> I'm
>> wrong and I need a little enlightenment.
>>
>> Thank you for any information that will help me better understand this.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Travis,
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