<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 26/10/2012, at 10:09 AM, jon pounder <<a href="mailto:jonp@inline.net">jonp@inline.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 10/25/2012 05:01 PM, Steve Totaro wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">That is just silly. You mean to say that the Adtran and the Adit<br>units are not as reliable as these new devices. No way.<br></blockquote><br>I have had channel banks fail yes, and I stick by my assertion that failing a small $50 box is a lot less painful on the wallet and users than a channel bank with most of the extensions on it, this changes as the scale goes up though.<br><br>I would only use a channel bank where the size can justify at least 3 of them, and I would never use a T1 based one again I would use the ethernet to FXS ones.<br><br>I use a combination of analog and voip phones and there are various reasons for each being the type it is, one solution doesn't always fit everything, even within a single system.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote>The Xorcom product range are pretty handy for this. You can plug in to your box via USB and they look like Dahdi extensions, so you can see state change etc.</div><div><a href="http://www.xorcom.com/telephony-interfaces/telephony-interfaces.html">http://www.xorcom.com/telephony-interfaces/telephony-interfaces.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I had some issues with the latest kernel, but other than that they are great in the hotels</div><div>They are externally powered and have modules within the chassis so you can get a large chassis then add lines</div><div><br></div><div>We are using a 32 port in one hotel happily. </div><div><br></div><div>I find the SPAs horrible to debug if there is an issue to do with actual call. They do work, but if something is not quite right with a call its really hard to see whats happening. </div><div><br></div><div>I prefer to be able to see everything on the CLI</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Duncan</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>