[Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.

[Rusty Shackleford]

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> brandt Milczewski
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 
> phones wanted.
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> I'm looking at setting up Asterisk for a completely IP 
> environment. All intercompany calls.
> 
> I work for a ski area. I currently use a 3Com Superstack for 
> in our office. And an old small town phone system for up at 
> the mountain. The phone system is dying and I'm hoping to 
> bring IP to replace the old phones. It will be about 100 
> phones at about 20 locations all within about 4 miles of each other.

With a run of 4 miles, it’s a safe bet that some segments will be (as
others have pointed out) beyond the 100 meter limit of ethernet. In
practice, under optimal conditions, you can fudge this a bit (sometimes
a lot) but I wouldn't count on it.

For the longer hauls, you might want to consider point-to-point DSL,
using something like this
 http://www.paradyne.com/products/SNE2000/
Conceivably, if you own the copper, you could do anything you want with
it.

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