[asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Drew Gibson wrote:
>  > www.citel.com
>  >
>  > I used them a few years back in a pilot install with legacy Nortel
>  > phones and it worked well. I gather they have grown tremendously from
>  > there. I'm in North America, don't know how well they support UK stuff.
>
>  Citel are, are they not, the company that specializes in "FXS" channel
>  banks specific to legacy digital phones?  Do they do analog-POTS banks
>  as well?
>
>
>  Cheers,
>  -- jra
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Citel is the worst product I have ever dealt with, worse than
Grandstream but for different reasons.

Anyways, for smaller port density I love the Quintum Tenor AX 24 port
FXS,  They may make a 48, I am not sure.  This is a SIP connection,
and there are probably a multitude of other products that do the same,
Quintum blew me away with the sheer amount of options and
configuration (that you will probably never use).

I have heard people suggest MaxTNT for high port densities, which
looks great, I just have no experience or need for such a device yet.

The other option is a channel bank that connects via T1 or I guess E1
(although I have never seen an E1 30 port channel bank, I am in the US
so it is not surprising)

Thanks,
Steve Totaro