[Asterisk-Users] Phone interface hardware

[Raja Chidambaram]

--- Raja Chidambaram <raja_chidambaram82 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Raja Chidambaram
> <raja_chidambaram82 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Phone interface hardware
> To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> 
> Hello All,
>   
> We are in the process of putting together an asterix
> based phone network in our office. The office would
> only have a LAN (i.e. no phone cables around). The
> users would use soft phones from the PCs (running
> linux). We would also like the have the ability to
> connect analog phones to these PCs and use these
> through asterix. It would be really good if we can
> connect these phones through some device connected
> to
> the USB interface. If not we would like to connect
> through a PCI card.
> 
> Is that this type of asterisk setup is possible? If
> so, what are the hardware that we can use for
> connecting analog phones to the PCs (through USB or
> PCI)? If this is not possible do you have any
> suggestion for alternatives?
> 
> We also heard about S100U, a FXO to USB converter.
> Do
> you think we can use this for what we need? Is that
> S100U is reliable product to buy? Most of the mails
> we
> could see on S100U are older than 2 years. Is this a
> currently supported product?
> 
> Note once again we need this hardware for providing
> an
> analog phone interface on a machine that does not
> run
> asterisk. This phone would need to communicate with
> the Asterisk running on a different server.
> 
> Rajaram
> 
> 
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