[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[Sys Admin]

exactly u bring me to one more anamoly in this industry:
(the first one was IAX being beter then SIP but not yet ready for prime time)

with a sipura 2001 FXS port the company I am consulting with can plug
in very high end quality analog phones each say for $50 offering
speaker phone / cordless phone / answering machine integrated with the
phone which they can hear before they decide to pick up or not etc
etc... So each workstation ends up costing say $90 ($50 for the phone
and $40 for the one FXS port on a sipura 2001)

Now this same feature set if I was to look for in a IP phone, the cost
would be more then $300,

whats up with that ?

t

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:21:16 -0600, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:14:12 -0800, Sys Admin wrote:
> 
> >each of the desks already has two rj45 network ports so it makes sense
> >for me to put a sipura 2001 at each of the deks rather then getting a
> >channel bank and then having to do new cabling,
> >
> >will i be ok with ordering 25 of the sipura 2001 since each one of
> >them have 2 FXS ports. Or  are there firmware/voice quality/asterisk
> >integration issues to use both FXS ports on a sipura 2001
> >simultaneously.
> >
> >t
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:52:48 -0600, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:46:41 -0800, Sys Admin wrote:
> >>
> >> >after two days of experiments finally decided to go with sipura 2001.
> >> >
> >> >I was wondering to support a 50 people call center do i need 25 sipura
> >> >2001 or 50 of these ?
> >> >
> >> >t
> >> >
> >>
> >> For such a large installation you'd be far better of with a channel
> >> bank to provide FXS ports. Much less network cabling and hassle. You'd
> >> use a t-1 connection to bridge between * and the channel bank. The wiki
> >> has lots of detail on this stuff.
> >>
> 
> If you already have all that Cat5 then why not consider low end IP
> phones?
> 
> I shudder to think about having to configure and support all those
> SPAs. All those wall-wart PSUs.
> 
> Seems less than elegant.
> 
> Michael
> 
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