[Asterisk-Users] Channel Banks

[Walt Reed]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:30:14AM -0800, Kostur, Andre said:
> OK, I'm having some trouble finding which equipment I need.... 
> 
> What I'd like to do is take about a dozen incoming analog lines and bring
> them into an * server.  Of course one is going to have a hard time fitting a
> dozen X100P cards in a case, so an alternative would be a channel bank and a
> T100P in the * server.  Now here's where my confusion comes in.  I _think_ I
> need a channel bank that has a T1 interface on one side (to go to the *
> server), and FXO interfaces on the other (to accept the incoming analog
> lines from the telco)?  And are there suggestions out there as to which
> channel banks one should select for this sort of deployment?

If you are getting a dozen pots line from the telco, they may just drop
you a T1(E1) (or PRI) that only has half the channels provisioned. Talk
to your sales rep. It makes it very easy to turn up additional channels,
you get digital quality, decent signaling, and the telco saves pairs.