[Asterisk-Users] Minimum budget question ...

[Tan Aks]

Hi,

We provide asterisk-based solutions to customers based in the uk. One of our
customers (9 users) is trialling our low-end solution which comprises of a
box with 2 x X100P (analogue line) cards installed, and a voip carrier for
outgoing calls. This customer intends to have 13 extensions in his "live"
scenario. The way to use multiple analogue phones is:

        1) get a T100P card and use a T1 channel bank sourced from the US
        2) use a couple of TDM400P cards to give 8 extensions, and use IP
phones for the other extensions
        3) use a voip gateway to provide up to 24 x analogue extensions per
IP address. VoIP gateways are commonly available and convert analogue lines
into a SIP/H323 VoIP stream.

You can get an E1 terminated with an RJ45. If you have a coax  termination
then you can use a balun to get rj45 connectivity.

Hope that helps.
Tan (telappliant.com)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Powell" <andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Minimum budget question ...


Tim,

a good comprehensive answer to the question...certainly gave me a few things
to think about. I do have a few questions though, since I'm in Europe.

Has anyone in Europe set up something equivalent to what Tim suggested?

What sort of prices did it work out at?

How did you solve the channel bank 'issue' in Europe?

I keep reading that E1 lines are coax terminated, is this correct or do you
usually get a choice from your teleco?

Were there any other issues to contend with?

I'd certainly be interested in the experiences of anyone in Europe...

Thanks

Andy




On 30/06/2003 at 10:55 tim.mcqueen at qualisys.biz wrote:

>If this is for commercial use, especially if you are going to be selling
>this solution, I would suggest that you don't even offer the choice of
>analog lines except in the smallest of offices.  Unless you like to
>spend a lot of unbillable time supporting them :)
>



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