By the time you purchase PCI cards for you extensions (FSO ports)you would be better off purchasing SIP phones like Grandstream GXP 2000 this will give you a fully featured PBX IP phone for about the same cost or less than FSO ports. Asterisk will have no problem running 25 or more SIP phones Personally I would reduce the incoming analog lines to 4 (FXO) ports and add some DID lines. This way you will only have to buy one PCI board with 4 FXO ports
Henry L.Coleman CEO *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355 Toronto Ontario Canada > Maybe you should try this > http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/aadk.php . > Is very heavy loaded if 9PCI cards at a server. But is possible but not > encourge. Maybe you can consider to have digital extension with IP phone. > THis is my opinion. > > :-) good luck > > On 11/14/06, Jason Flatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello all. >> >> My company currently has an older Executone PBX system that we are >> outgrowing. >> Rather than wait until the last minute to make a hasty decision, I >> thought >> it >> would be a good idea to do some research and compare options first. My >> expertise is in computers and networking, and telephony systems are >> mostly >> foreign to me. >> >> What we currently have are 5 incoming POTS lines and 25 stations and are >> wanting to add 1 or 2 more stations. I think we might have added at >> least >> one more incoming line, except that the phones we have only support 5 >> lines >> (so I'm told). Our PBX system has room for 5 more stations, then it's >> time >> to buy a new one. >> >> I'm assuming I need to add some hardware in order to make Asterisk work >> with >> our existing setup, but I'm not entirely sure what. Based on the >> reading >> I've done so far and my limited understanding, if we wanted to use it in >> place of our existing PBX system, I would need to get an "analog >> interface >> card" (several, actually), like Digium's TDM400P, like so: >> >> 2 - Wildcard TDM04B cards for FXO and >> 7 - Wildcard TDM40B cards for FXS >> >> -or- >> >> 1 - Wildcard TDM04B card for FXO and >> 1 - Wildcard TDM22B card for FXO & FXS and >> 7 - Wildcard TDM40B cards for FXS >> >> I might as well use the top configuration for future expansion. >> >> If I am correct, that is 9 PCI cards in a PC. I don't know of any >> motherboard >> that supports that many cards, so either I'm wrong, or I'll need >> different >> cards, or I'll need to utilize 2 or more PCs in conjunction with each >> other. >> I haven't yet found any mention on the last two options, so I'm assuming >> I'm >> wrong and I need a little enlightenment. >> >> Thank you for any information that will help me better understand this. >> >> >> -- >> Jason Flatt >> Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 13; Cramer, 11; >> Travis, >> 9; Angela; Harry, 5; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) >> Linux User: http://www.sourcemage.org/ >> Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> --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 >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sharon Lim > > *Good memories are to be folded neatly and tucked away into the back > pocket > * > _______________________________________________ > --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 > _______________________________________________ --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
