On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Noah Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:noahisaacmiller@gmail.com">noahisaacmiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> > Most small/medium companies have a T1 for all their phone needs.<br>> > Internally there is a need for some analog lines.<br>> > * Fax Machine - FXS<br>> > * Security System (most ask/demand two lines) FXS
<br>> > * Paging - FXO<br>> > * Dialup systems<br>><br>> I think he's asking why both T1 and FXS/FXO need to be on a single card.<br><br>Probably for a small server with only one available PCI slot. Back to
<br>the original question from Arun: I'm pretty sure there are no hybrid<br>PRI/TDM cards. At least, I'm pretty sure there are none that would<br>work directly with Asterisk.</blockquote><div><br>As one with experience with TDM cards, I highly recommend buying a channel bank and connecting it to a T1 card. That way, you can get a 2-port T1 card, a channel bank, and have your T1/TDM environment.
<br><br>I'm not saying you can't do it another way, but I find that my lines connected through channel banks are more reliable than those connected through TDM cards.<br><br>YMMV<br><br></div><br></div><br>