[Asterisk-Users] Scaleable Solution for small office

[Miguel Cavazos]

on the 5 to 8 secs of echo if your using on your zapata.conf
echotraining=yes you should get rid of this echo problem

Miguel
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:15, Ryan R. Fligg wrote:
> Hi,
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> Have posted to this list a couple of times and have always received
> great responses and help.  I have a basic * system setup
> 
> Using 3 X100P cards with 6 Snom200 IP phones.  It was a bit of a
> struggle getting everything up and running but have been pretty happy
> with 
> 
> the flexibility and ease of *.  My major problem is one that has been
> discussed on this list many times before.  The echo from the X100P
> cards is 
> 
> completely irritating to my users.  I have tweaked the system as much
> as I can, IE: switching tip and ring, using aggressive suppressor,
> tweaking the TX/RX 
> 
> settings.  There is still echo in the first 0-8 seconds of the call
> while the echo cancellation is catching up.  I understand the problem
> is that you do not hear this 
> 
> echo in analog systems even though it is present and it is only heard
> in the digital system because it is not as fast as analog.  
> 
>  
> 
> So here is my problem.  Our CEO wants me to get rid of the system
> unless I can provide a solution that will expand and work just as good
> as an analog replacement
> 
> PBX.  He came to me with this decision after trying to use the Snom200
> speaker phone for a conference call, not a good idea as we all know
> the speaker on this phone   
> 
> is not a conference phone replacement.  He also was frustrated when he
> tried to patch a call that came to another extension, which
> transferred fine, but was disconnected when the receiving party made a
> switch on their PBX to another extension and it was dropped.  
> 
>  
> 
> Currently we have 4 POTS lines and I have 1 setup for DSL and the
> other 3 hooked into the X100P cards, 2 outgoing and 2 incoming, using
> the DSL as incoming rollover.
> 
> We are planning on expanding our business pretty rapidly and he wants
> a system that will be easy to setup and scale.  I know asterisk and
> VOIP phones are great for this
> 
> but the little glitches in the phones, hardware wise, are not
> supporting my Asterisk decision.  I would like to upgrade to a channel
> bank, and was wondering if anyone has had any echo issues with other
> digium hardware.  I know that the X100P issue comes from not having
> ECAN DSP in the card.  I was also wondering if anyone had any luck
> adding a conference phone such as the Polycom Soundstation Conference
> Phone.  Any suggestions would be appreciated
> 
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> Ryan R. Fligg
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> 
> Secured Digital Storage, Inc.
> 
> 104 SW 4th St.
> 
> Des Moines, IA 50309
> 
> Phone: (515)-244-6290
> 
> Cell:     (720)-841-5802
> 
> Website: www.dstorage.com
> 
> E-Mail: rfligg at dstorage.com
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