[Asterisk-Users] Digium T100P T1 Card

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 01:01 -0700, Wiley Siler wrote:
> Hello All,
>  
> I could use a recommendation if anyone has a moment. 

It is preferable to not use HTML in email. Just because a font size
looks good on your monitor doesn't mean it is anywhere close to good
anywhere else. Your choosen font size ends up being 1/2 to maybe 2/3 the
size of standard text. In other words, had it not been for the slightly
interesting to me subject line, this would have been ignored as a user
to clueless to bother with.

Also learn about why paragraphs are good.

>  I have the T100P but I have not gotten my service yet.  I want to
> have at least 12 lines of digital voice with DID.  Should I just seek
> out a PRI ISDN provider or is there something else I should look for?
> I want to keep cost as low as possible.  Also, I want to own my own
> router for the phones since it is always a hassle to get anything
> fixed from the tele-company.

This shows you need to learn quite a bit more about phone service. There
is no need for a router on a telephony T1. You will either want to plug
a channelized T1 or PRI into the T100P directly. 

If you want some analog FXS ports, you could also go the route of an
ADIT 600 and plug the T1 into the ADIT and route your incoming 12
channels to the second port of the ADIT and then plug it into the T100P.
The benefit here is you will have 12 channels left over to signal back
from the T100P to the ADIT and have those channels routed to FXS ports.
I used to do something similar to that with a Zhone channel bank before
our company fully trusted asterisk.

>   What is a good and cheap router (Cisco maybe) that I would use to
> interface to the T100P?  I plan to integrate my system to use our old
> analog lines for fax so I will have questions on that later too.

You don't need analog lines for FAX. Follow the directions above for the
ADIT and you will be able to have analog ports to plug your fax machines
and route them out the T1. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>