Erick, Consider trunking your Meridian to the Asterisk via an E1 card on the Nortel. That way you'll be able to maintain your proprietary Nortel phones and won't need a channel bank.
Your implementation would be something like this: Cable & Worthless E1(or whoever)-->Asterisk(Sangoma port 1)-(Sangoma port 2)-->Meridian--->Nortel Digital phones suerte, -M On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:37 -0500, Erick Perez wrote: > Update to myself: > So in terms of equipment I will need: > Sangoma a102 E1 (two E1 ports) plus a E1 crossover cable > a channel bank with 8 FXS ports > > sounds expensive for just 8 analog ports. Any ideas? > > > > On 8/31/05, Erick Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Im about to start shopping parts for an * box. We are migrating > > from a Meridian Norstar+ Modular ICS > > > > Here are the customer details: > > a) Meridian with 8 analog lines card and 32 nortel digital phones and > > voicemail. We will interface * to the meridian using the analog ports > > so we dont loose the phones. > > > > b)half E1. The * box will get half E1 (with DID) for connecting to the > > local telco. > > We need two recepcionist/operator phones (sip or whatever) > > > > So in terms of equipment I will need: > > Sangoma a101 E1/PCI > > an 8 port analog card > > a channel bank? > > > > Can someone tell me if i really have to buy an analog card? or maybe > > link me to a web site that explains (with images) how a t1/e1 is > > managed? > > > > Thanks, and I apologize for this completely newbie question. I've > > never seen images or instructions on how to handle this. Im not even > > sure im using the right terms in Google. > > > > -- > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > Erick Perez > > Linux User 376588 > > http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) > > Panama, Republic of Panama > > > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
