[Asterisk-Users] New Setup with Analog Phone lines

[Jay Milk]

For a single-span T1 card, get the Wildcard TE110P from digium.  Froogle
for it, should come out to <$600 (afaik, digium no longer sells them
directly).

Channel Banks (or T1 Multiplexers) go for hundreds to >$1,000 on ebay.
I believe CAC and Adtran 600 are known to work.  I'd venture a guess
that most of these are configured with FXS (not FXO, as you'd need), but
once in a while you should find a good mix.  Below is a link to what
looks like one heck of a deal -- and it looks like the bidder knows
asterisk:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51271&item=578460
8313&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

If that whole thing is a bit rich for your application, you could
consider using eight Sipura SPA-3000 and for $600-$700 would get 8FXO
ports (and some fun failover capabilities!) thrown in.  It's a bear to
administer though, unless you get the proper tools from Sipura.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Gamble [mailto:Chris.Gamble at cpbinc.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:27 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] New Setup with Analog Phone lines
> 
> 
> Any chance you could drop some product names for me to 
> further research on the T1/channel bank solution? Preferably 
> something I can get from a vendor in the Texas, USA  area -- 
> or is this off-topic?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of 
> Bryce Chidester
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:19 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] New Setup with Analog Phone lines
> 
> 
> I think the easiest way to accomplish that would be through a 
> channel  
> bank which could rackmount as well, and interface via T1 to the  
> computer, thus only one PCI card and room to grow to 24 
> channels, FXO  
> and even FXS.
> That or go with a 2U rackmount computer.
> 
> Regards,
> Bryce Chidester
> Rhino Equipment Corp.
> bryce at rhinoequipment.com        SIP: 305 at rhinoequipment.zapto.org
> +1 (480) 940-1826 x305                IAX:  
> guest at rhinoequipment.zapto.org/305
> 
> 
> On Jun 30, 2005, at 14:53, Chris Gamble wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for hardware recommendations for a new asterisk setup.
> > I want to connect 8 analog phone lines (I think the term used is  
> > POTS?), to an asterisk server similar to the way the Wildcard  
> > TDM400 with FXO cards would. However, The Asterisk server is rack- 
> > mount lacking the needed PCI ports, so I need something that is  
> > standalone. What is a good solution for this?
> >
> > Thanks, and please forgive my uncertainty of terminoligy. I am very
> > new to the VOIP / PBX worlds. I thought elves made the phone ring!
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