On 1/11/06, William Boehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can save a little money with analog phones however if that saving is not > an issue business class VoIP phones from providers like Polycom and Cisco > have more features and much of the time better call quality.
Thanks William for the response. That is good news about the phone quality. >From what I have read, I think the overall cost would still be cheaper with a voip solution, even if the phones are more. A 4 line FXS card is about $3-400 (I think). If I understand this correctly, even if I have only 4 lines incoming, I need an FXS homerun to each phone. So for 5 phones, I would need 2 cards. And, the O'Reilly book says that I should not put 2 cards in the same box, so I would need another computer. I was hoping a single computer could handle up to 10 voip phones. Am I deluding myself? Jim > Hi > > I am setting up a phone system for a small office. > The office will have 5-8 phones and a fax line. > There are 4 hunt lines coming into the office. > We have made no hardware purchase yet. > > Being an asterisk newbie, before I suscribed to this list I just > assumed that I would buy voip phones and connect > all the phones to a private ethernet network. > > However, I see many people inquiring about FXS cards. > > Is there any reason why I would need to consider using > analog phones and FXS cards? Seems to me the cheapest > way is with voip phones and voice quality should be good > since the phones are on a private network that only has > voice traffic. -- Jim Freeze _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
