On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Ivan Ochoa wrote: > I am totally new to this PBX/asterisk/telephony world. welcome, *'s a beauty
> I understand that what I need between the T100P/E100P and the POTS > analog lines is a channel bank/multiplexer? right, since E1 channel banks are bloody expensive, and you're dealing with POTS anyway, then the best bet maybe to just buy a T100P, which'll give you 24 ports to be broken out using a channel bank built for a T1 which are much cheaper and much more readily available > Another newbie question: can I use this channel bank/multiplexer (or > any other you recommend) and have X number of the analog lines ports for > incoming lines from the POTS and the remaining ports for extensions > within the office? in a perfect world, all the ports on a channel bank should be configurable to be FXO (incoming lines from the POTS) or FXS (lines for extensions) [crudely put]... in real life, this may or may not come true... it depends on the channel bank, but with any decent hardware, you should have some sort of options, like 4FXO/12FXS or 12 FXO/4FXS or 2FXO/14FXS or some other option... this may be configurable as jumper switches, eeprom settings, or pluggable modules providing the fliexibility - wasim _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
