[Asterisk-Users] newbie questions

[janvb at caselaboratories.com]

You can put analogue phones in series, but I am not sure how many phones 
a FSX connection will drag and I don't think the cards are designed for 
it - don't know. Sounds to me as you would benefit from downloading 
Asterisk and play around with a few softphones first and maybe buy 
Digiums starter kit, cause you need to take into mind that Asterisk is 
not realy a Plug & Play environment, it do require people who are 
comfortable with the command prompt on Linux and have the time to fiddle 
around with this (or money to pay someone to do so)

jan


Chris Wade wrote:

> Fred Blaise wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:48 -0600, Chris Wade wrote:
>>
>>> janvb at caselaboratories.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>>> My second question: for a branch office of about 20 people, which E1
>>>>> card do you advise? Would the TE210P be a good choice? (number of
>>>>> concurrent calls would be max 10 for now) Why?
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>> An E1 has 30 lines, so you would be perfect with a TE110P. 
>>>> Connecting an E1 to a company PABX is however an expensiveoption, 
>>>> so you might want to compare the prices with 10 analogue lines or 
>>>> maybe 5 BRI lines. I would not  let the price of hardware decide 
>>>> this because  you  will need to pay a fixed cost per month for PSTN 
>>>> lines, so check these prices first. Asterisk is scalable in the 
>>>> sence that you can add more later if you have an available PCI slot.
>>>
>>> Even though they don't appear to be shipping yet, don't forget the 
>>> TDM2400P's from Digium.  Up to 24 FXO or FXS ports per full length 
>>> PCI card.
>>
>> ok. So, with this in mind, if I was to acquire that 24 ports, 1 FXO
>> modules, the rest FSX modules. I could have 1 public telephone number to
>> the PSTN (3 wasted for this example), 20 analog phones inside the
>> company's branch, each phone having its extension in Asterisk? Or could
>> I have just the smaller card allowing me 1 FSO and 3 FSX and some kind
>> of "hub" to connect some number of analog phones (let's say 20)? If so,
>> does the number of FXS limit the number of my simultaneous telephone
>> calls?
>>
>> Sorry for the dumb questions, but your answers are highly appreciated.
>
>
> Sorry, but there is really no such thing as a "hub" for telephone 
> lines.  Each analog phone must be plugged into its own FXS port.
>