Agg, I felt bad about being pedantic. How about splitting the load and reducing the single point of failure? Instead of one big ATA how about a number of smaller ones (two port) split between your switches?
j On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > > > I would be more worried about the ATA gateway failing than the switch, as > you have found yourself. How about two gateways and two phones on > everyone's desk :) > > j > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Adam Moffett wrote: > >> I don't know of any ATA like that except the grandstream. >> >> The service provider grade way to do this would probably be a Cisco (or >> similar) with a T1 interface and a channel bank to break the T1 into 24 >> FXS ports. >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking for an 8+ FXS ATA gateway (at least 8 ports but preferably at >>> most 24 ports) with 2 ethernet interfaces for network/switch redundancy. >>> >>> So far I've only found the Grandstream GXW4008. >>> >>> I've searched similar brands such as Linksys and higher-end brands such as >>> Quintum, but they all seem to have just one NIC. So, if the switch the ATA >>> is connected to fails then I'm out of business (at least until I replace >>> the switch but that's usually too long for a busy system). >>> >>> The GXW4008 device is very useful for this scenario. It has 2 RJ45 ports >>> (called WAN and LAN) and I've set them up in two local subnets. Not only >>> does the ATA keep working without human intervention if one of the switches >>> goes down but if both switches are up it can load balance between the two >>> (simply by using DNS SRV with the same weights). >>> >>> Unfortunately, Grandstream in general doesn't seem to be very reliable >>> although the latest GXW4008 firmware has proven to be quite stable in my >>> case (previous releases were buggy). >>> >>> So I'm looking for alternatives to the GXW4008, even if it has to cost me >>> more money. Does anyone know of an 8+ FXS ATA brand/model with 2 ethernet >>> interfaces? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Vieri >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >>> >>> asterisk-users mailing list >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
