[Asterisk-Users] simple over view of the process

[Gyrion, Larry M.]

I purchased a $299 kit from the VOIP Connection
http://www.thevoipconnection.com/store/catalog/product_16215_Asterisk_St
arter_Kit.html

It comes with a install CD, book about Astrerisk, a quad line card, and
a VoIP phone.  Seems like a reasonable price to pay to sample it.  I
will be installing it to a desktop computer and creating four analog
lines to use on the line card.  If all goes well we will then move to
build a Asterisk system to handle 1500 lines (including 650-700 of those
converted back to analog).  The cost of doing this is way less than
bringing in another Nortel , Cisco, or Avaya PBX.  Of course my concern
is to create a redundancy type system.  With Nortel I am use to their
failover system.

Larry Gyrion
Telecommunications Administrator
Manchester College
604 East College Ave
North Manchester, IN  46962
lmgyrion at manchester.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: lonnie at outstep.com [mailto:lonnie at outstep.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:13 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] simple over view of the process

Hello All,

Please forgive the lack of understanding as of yet but I have been
trying
to follow the mailing list messages over the last few days and would
like
to know if someone could wither point me into the right direction or
possibly give me a brief overview of the complete process.

Basically, I see that the Asterisk PBX systems can run on linux and
seems
to offer the engine base that is needed for the SIP clients to connect.

Additionally, it seems that the various hardware (of which I have no
idea)
if installed into the server will allow the SIP clients to communicate
with analog lines.

What inexpensive hardware is need to set up a basic system?

Thanks,
-Lonnie