[asterisk-users] SIP vs Analog lines

[Steve Totaro]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Miguel Molina <mmolina at millenium.com.co>wrote:

> John F. Ervin escribió:
> > Never having actually rolled an Asterisk (Trixbox in my case) system
> > into production.  I was wondering if in most peoples opinion if given
> > the choice would rather have a straight VOIP/SIP system or would
> > rather have a system with normal POTS/analog types lines and something
> > like a digium card?  As far as reliability etc.  Thoughts?
> I'd go VoIP without thinking twice.


Always think twice and always look both ways before crossing the street.
Look left, right, and then left again....


> We are on the 21st century! Many
> technological efforts that have been made through all this years have
> been directed to bring telephony to the IP world.


While true, I also have read that unless major upgrades are done, P2P,
YouTube, other streaming, and tons of other bandwidth intensive apps are
going to bog down the net in many spots.  Hopefully it is not one of your
hops to your ITSP.


> Asterisk has played
> and keeps playing a pretty nice role on the open source market we are
> in. VoIP will be as reliable and good quality as your network is.


Your network, your ISPs, or your provider?  If it is just "your network"
then you must be speaking of TDM.


> The
> savings of not having to make double phone/data cabling and the
> advantages of VoIP are now a standard worldwide, from carriers to small
> home PBXs.
>

Most new cable jobs run cat5 or cat6 regardless of use for almost the same
price.  I actually don't know of any cabling outfits offering cat3.

Most existing workspaces have data jacks already in place.


>
> Analog lines are definitely legacy. The last time I put a T1 channel
> bank into use was more than two years ago, and never had to configure
> another one since then.
>

I "think" he is just referring to a small amount of lines, although he did
not say explicitly.  I don't know about a channel bank (except for a whole
bunch of fax machines)


>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ing. Miguel Molina
> Grupo de Tecnología
> Millenium Phone Center
>
>
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