> I disagree with PaulH on this one. Cheap IP phones makes for *cheap* > phone, cheap sound, and cheap features. The cheapest IP phone you can > get will come to around $60.00 USD, which multiplied by 150 makes > $9,000.00. While a channel bank (ADIT 600) with 6 FXS cards (48 ports) > runs around $1200.00 multiplied by 3 (3 * 48 = 144 the closest I can > get without overbuying) makes for $3600.00, each QuadT1 card runs > around $1,500.00 or $2,500.00 with echo can, multiplied by 2 makes > $5,000.00 at the most, Total = $8,600.00 at the most, and you already > have the phones, and I'm telling you that it will be cheaper. Also, > you might have to rerun wiring for VoIP, beside the fact that for > cheap VoIP phones you don't get POE, which also means you need outlets > where you are going to put phones, as well as in featurewise; you can > do much more in the DP with ananlog phones (or VoIP since it's in the > DP), then *any* VoIP phone under $100.00 can do without the DP, and > even a Cisco or Polycom cannot do much without some fancy programming > from the phone itself with no DP.
The digium 24 port card will also add another option to this.... PaulH _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users