Are the Aastra PTXXX phones ADSI? How compatable are they with asterisk? I see some PT450s on eBay for reasonable prices, and I just may be tempted to pick one up for fun. Is it worthwhile? Thanks! Pat
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXO cards > 6 incoming lines, 1 fax, DSL. 8 phones max, will provably start with 5 > to save money. > I had thought of using a channel bank, but what a pain in the ass that > is becoming. For one, they are expensive, and I then have to buy the > T1 card for the phone server. I though, why not go with an FXO card. Is there any particular reason that Aastra PT350/390/450 phones won't do the job of these other (4x the price) phones you've looked at? I find these phones are very good and cheap, too. I would strongly suggest the channel bank (Adit 600) and T100P. It'll save you headaches in the long run and the cost is minimal, especially once you factor into account all the screwing around with IRQs and echo settings and so on you're going to have to do with the X101P and TDM400P cards. The T1 card is what, $500 and the channel bank will probably run you $900 after you manage to find a couple of quad FXO cards for it. That's still way cheaper than the $6k proprietary system you've been mentioning. You don't need a crazy quad xeon processor to handle this kind of load and four nine's availability (down less than a day a year) is trivial to attain with standard hardware. If you're serious about your system I would spend the money to have hardware available to swap out when something dies. This includes the channel bank and T1 card, although you don't need the chassis for the channel bank, just the processor/FXS/FXO modules and power supply. It'd be cheapest just to buy the cheapest adit600 on ebay for spare parts. I seriously doubt you have the need to fully hot-swappable hardware, although the channel bank is fully hot-swap. :-) Regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
