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I know that this has been replied to, but, where I work, We use the
Carrier Access Group Adit 600 Channel banks.<br>
It supports two T1's and my boss tells me that we can get the for about
400-800 dollars.<br>
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They use 8 port c\expansion cards, so you can three groups of ports,
say 16 FXS (2x FXS) and 8 FXO ports (1x FXO).<br>
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These units are programmed using a crossover cable and a serial port.<br>
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They have a lot of other features that I don't know how to use, but
they work grate for us.<br>
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I hope this helps.<br>
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--<br>
Christopher Dobbs<br>
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Shoval Tomer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Can you recommend a channel bank make and model that will support all
(or most) of Asterisk's features and can be installed by a newbie?
I'll search for it on ebay
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From: Steven Critchfield [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:critch@basesys.com">mailto:critch@basesys.com</a>]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:22 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] pc
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:09 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote:
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From: Steven Critchfield [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:critch@basesys.com">mailto:critch@basesys.com</a>]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:39 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] pc
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 18:07 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm going to install asterisk with four digium cards.
Can anyone mention a brand that carries boards with 4 compatible
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<pre wrap="">slots?
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<pre wrap="">What 4 cards are you thinking of installing? Most people seem to
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<pre wrap="">into trouble after the second concurrent card.
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I was thinking one 4 port FXO card
Two 4 port FXS card
And the fourth with one FXO and three FXs
For a total of 11 FXSs and 5 FXOs (for five POTS lines and 11 analog
extensions).
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<pre wrap="">You would be far better off going with a channel bank and T1 card.
Immediately you get room for expansion as you won't be limited to just
16 ports. As for cost, 4x $305(I think that is the current price) =
$1220, $1220 - $500(t100P) = $720, or enough left over to get taken on
parts from ebay a couple of times before you reach level costs.
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<pre wrap="">What trouble should I run into?
Define trouble? Hard to configure, or impossible because of IRQ
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<pre wrap="">issues or whatever?
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<pre wrap="">Trouble being 4 x 1000 interupts per second on the machine. Lack of
expansion, interupt sharing, any number of annoyances.
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<pre wrap="">Anyways, almost all motherboards put 4 PCI slots on the board as
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<pre wrap="">not much extra and expected on anything non entry level.
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<pre wrap="">I thought so. Apparently most of them only come with three.
I was hoping to locate a motherboard that has five so I'll have room
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<pre wrap="">expand, but four will be great.
Anybody knows if PCI express technology is compatible with
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Steven Critchfield <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:critch@basesys.com"><critch@basesys.com></a>
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