[Asterisk-Users] Phone interface hardware

[MF Hulber]

Without having said why you want to connect the phone through the 
computers I have a hard time understanding why you want to do that.  As 
someone else has suggested, either buy IP phones and connect them 
directly to your LAN or buy analog adapters and use your existing phones.

I don't see the S100U listed on the Digium site as a current product.  
You can get a bunch of SPA 1001's for under $60 each.  If you start 
getting cards for all of your computers you now have to support the 
installation and maintenance of those everywhere.  Most of the analog 
adapters support remote administration.

MARK.

Raja Chidambaram wrote:

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