[Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 17 November 2003 18:56, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > With an analog phone deployment, anything beyond four desksets is
> > best accomplished with T1 card(s) in the Asterisk PC and channel
> > banks to connect the phones (and probably the PSTN).  Whereas the
> > phones could be as little as $10 each, you have to budget the price
> > of the channel bank(s).  If the customer is uncomfortable with
> > eBay, used hardware, channel banks could be north of $3000 each.
>
> I'm not sure what crack you're smoking; 24-port FXS channel banks
> (Adit 600s) are about US$400 on ebay, each.  FXOs are more expensive,
> but that's not what you need here.  And you can probably locate
> higher-density ones should you require it.

It's probably a lot less powerful than the crack you're smoking.  He
covered the eBay base.  Just in case you missed it:  If the customer is
uncomfortable with eBay.  If the customer is uncomfortable with eBay.
If the customer is uncomfortable with eBay.

Surprise, people.  While geeks may be all in favor of used equipment
(and yes, most of it is probably no worse than new equipment), there are
many customers who are uncomfortable with buying used equipment,
probably because many of them have gotten burned in the past.  Given
that you're selling the equipment, not providing an in-house service,
customers may be much happier if you sell them new manufactured goods.
Caveat emptor, as they say.

-Tilghman