[asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:42:28PM -0600, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>    I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a
>    Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the cable
>    is CAT 3.

You might want to consider snagging an FXS channelbank off of eBay (we
use the Zhones, which work pretty well for us), and using a multi-port
T-1 card.  

If this is not a business motel, you'll likely get by with 24 trunks,
so a quad-T card would support both your incoming lines and 3 channel
banks (we seem to pay about $180-240 for them, making this cost
effective), assuming "approximately 80" isn't more than 72.  :-)

If that's not enough ports, then yeah, you'll probably be best served
going to a Ethernet gateway; I personally have never liked the idea of
stuffing that much FXS inside a PC chassis.

Cheers,
-- jra
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