[asterisk-users] AA50 Failover

[Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy]

People hate to wait, as a fact i consider AA50s no suited for redundancy,
and i am not sure that they were made for that.

2008/8/1 Drew Gibson <drew at oanda.com>

> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:10:34PM -0400, Dave Welsh wrote:
> >
> >> If I buy two AA50s can I set them up so that everything runs through the
> >> first one, but the second one will take over if the first one goes down?
> >>    I can see the extensions recovering, because they use ethernet, but
> >> what about the FSO lines? Is there a way they can be spliced to both
> >> AA50s so that no one need to do any emergency rewiring?
> >>
> >
> > Thinking aloud:
> >
> > what happens if you just connect th two units on the same phone line?
> >
> >
>
> Use one of those fax/modem/phone sharing boxes that blocks the other
> devices when one is off hook.
>
> > You basically need a way to prevent the slave unit from answering calls
> > if the master is alive.
> >
> >
>
> Set the primary unit to pick up on, say, 2 rings and the secondary unit
> to pick up on 4.
> If the primary fails, it won't pick up the line and the secondary takes
> over.
>
> You could try having your phones register to both but I'm not sure how
> that would work
>
> regards,
>
> Drew
>
> --
> Drew Gibson
>
> Systems Administrator
> OANDA Corporation
> www.oanda.com
>
>
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