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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:42:28PM -0600, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> 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.
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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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I agree with using used chan banks off of Ebay, but I would not touch a
Zhone. I had one and sold it as soon as I could. They are a real PITA
to program and don't pass caller id.<br>
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I have purchased several Adtran chan banks and have been extremely
happy with them and tech support at Adtran. Support from Adtran has
been nothing short of excellent even though they knew I calling about
used chan banks from purchased on Ebay. One note is if the admin/craft
interface has a password on it, you have to call Adtran to reset it.
There is a way to bring up a numeric challenge code and support will
tell you the response to it and you are in.<br>
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Lyle Giese<br>
LCR Computer Services, Inc.<br>
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