[Asterisk-Users] so many FXS ports :)

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Andrew Latham wrote:

> On 6/23/05, Seamus Abshere <sabshere at isthmusgroup.com> wrote:
> > That's what I'm confused about:
> > * two 4 port FXS cards
> > * one 24 port FXS channel bank
> > both, neither, and if both -- why do you need the dual digium cards?
> > shouldn't your channel bank just take MGCP or SIP or something?
>
> The idea is that the channel bank breaks a T1/E1/J1 in to channels.
> There are newer channel type devices that are just gateways. I am sure
> there are benefits of doing it each way.

By not having any VoIP links you reduce the latency considerably. This 
reuces the risk of perceiving a far end reflection as echo, instead 
keeping it as a normal side tone. 

Peter