For a single-span T1 card, get the Wildcard TE110P from digium. Froogle for it, should come out to <$600 (afaik, digium no longer sells them directly).
Channel Banks (or T1 Multiplexers) go for hundreds to >$1,000 on ebay. I believe CAC and Adtran 600 are known to work. I'd venture a guess that most of these are configured with FXS (not FXO, as you'd need), but once in a while you should find a good mix. Below is a link to what looks like one heck of a deal -- and it looks like the bidder knows asterisk: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51271&item=578460 8313&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW If that whole thing is a bit rich for your application, you could consider using eight Sipura SPA-3000 and for $600-$700 would get 8FXO ports (and some fun failover capabilities!) thrown in. It's a bear to administer though, unless you get the proper tools from Sipura. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Gamble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:27 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] New Setup with Analog Phone lines > > > Any chance you could drop some product names for me to > further research on the T1/channel bank solution? Preferably > something I can get from a vendor in the Texas, USA area -- > or is this off-topic? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Bryce Chidester > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:19 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] New Setup with Analog Phone lines > > > I think the easiest way to accomplish that would be through a > channel > bank which could rackmount as well, and interface via T1 to the > computer, thus only one PCI card and room to grow to 24 > channels, FXO > and even FXS. > That or go with a 2U rackmount computer. > > Regards, > Bryce Chidester > Rhino Equipment Corp. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 (480) 940-1826 x305 IAX: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/305 > > > On Jun 30, 2005, at 14:53, Chris Gamble wrote: > > > I am looking for hardware recommendations for a new asterisk setup. > > I want to connect 8 analog phone lines (I think the term used is > > POTS?), to an asterisk server similar to the way the Wildcard > > TDM400 with FXO cards would. However, The Asterisk server is rack- > > mount lacking the needed PCI ports, so I need something that is > > standalone. What is a good solution for this? > > > > Thanks, and please forgive my uncertainty of terminoligy. I am very > > new to the VOIP / PBX worlds. I thought elves made the phone ring! > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster> isk-users > To > UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
