[Asterisk-Users] small office

[Dante Alzamora]

Thanks Andrew & John,

What about the suggestion for the SOHO?

1) What is the best cost effective solution for a small office: I need 3 FXS
& 2 FXO.
2) Can I hookup a TDM400P (3FXS) and 2 X100P (FXO) on the same computer?

TIA

-----Original Message-----
From: John Congdon [mailto:john at ultimatevitality.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:07 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Cc: DA at McfsCorp.Com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] small office


beware, I bought one of these phones and there is no documentation.
I do not think their IP = the IP you want in a phone.

I still have not found out what it means, but It surely doesn't look like
what we need.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Gillham [mailto:gillham at vaultron.com]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:11 PM
To: Dante Alzamora
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] small office


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:09:13PM -0400, Dante Alzamora wrote:
> What is the best cost effective solution for a small office:
> I need 3 FXS & 2 FXO.
>
> Can I hookup a TDM400P and 2 X100P on the same computer?
>
> Also, I saw some IP phones for $25.99
>
http://www.wosmile.com/cgi-bin/view_store_item.cgi?pid=4424&sid=5&category=1
> Can I use them with asterisk? will they be able to do the same as the
> TDM400P?

Those are not "IP Phones" in the sense of TCP/IP.  I believe the term IP
in this case is something like 'initial prefix' or similar.

I've seen these on eBay, and looked into them.  From what (little) I could
find, it appears that you can configure the phone to dial some pre-defined
number when you pick it up, or before dialing the entered numbers.
(like it can do '9' or '10-10-321' or whatever)

It is simply not an H.323, MGCP, SCCP, SIP or anything IP phone.

I would say look into the Grandstream phones.   http://www.grandstream.com/

> I read that to run the conference app Meetme you needed a Zaptel driver.

You can use the ztdummy driver that uses your USB controller for timing.

-Andrew