Look long and hard before purchase of a TDM400 It doesn't work with many
motherboards, and Digium's anser is "try another Motherboard"
Seriously consider the Sangoma A200
5 year Warranty and works with all motherboards.
John Npvack
Mike Morris wrote:
I'm preparing for my first asterisk install, and would like to ask a
hardware question & confirm my understanding of some basics:
* The Q: I'm looking for 2 FXO ports to have asterisk answer 2
incoming lines. There are single FXO port cards for about
$30... but dual cards, or the Digium "400" cards, are all
several hundred dollars. Why is this? Are the chipsets so
different, or am I missing something?
And here's my plan to teach myself using increasing complexity:
* Starting point is standard PC, standard phone line
* do trixbox install on PC & connect to LAN (no special hardware yet)
* then I should be able to setup IVR and voice mail boxes, and
access them using a "soft phone" from any PC on the network, but
only"locally", using extension numbers, right?
* I could also plug IP phones directly into the network and access
the asterisk box "locally", using extension numbers, right?
* add FXO card(s), and connect incoming lines. Now I can also:
o dialup the voice mailboxes from any standard phone worldwide
o Use any of the IP and/or softphones to send and receive
calls via PSTN, right?
* add FXS card(s) and I can plug standard phones into the asterisk
box and I can use them as extensions, to either access voicemail
locally, or send/receive calls via PSTN ... right ???
* Now for VoIP I just have to order the service from a vendor like
vonage, and I can use any of the soft phones, IP phones or
standard handsets for VoIP... right ??
Do I have any major misconceptions about the above?
Thanks a lot for your patience !!!
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