Another option is to tie in a legacy 2-wire PBX with Asterisk instead of going
pure analog
This allows you to reuse your single-pair infrastructure, while achieving MOST
of the functionality of a pure-ip endpoint deployment with only a very moderate
incremental cost over a pure-analog deployment. The upside is that you can get
things that the analog devices can't give you, such as network time, paging,
speakerphones, talkback and lots of hardware buttons for "1-click access" to
limitless asterisk features. Any legacy PBX is also going to be compatible
with your analog devices such as mailing machines (modems) and Faxes (if you
still use them) via their 'synchronous' (not-packetized) ATA's or analog
'ports'.
Consider how cheap SOLID STATE Norstar equipment is for example. A few hundred
bucks for a perfectly good PRI-equipped decommissioned system that is DISKLESS
& FANLESS (read high availability) along high-quality speakerphone endpoints
for virtually nothing (on eBay), or dirt-cheap 'refurb' equipment that is
tested & warranted.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer the power & flexibility of a POE managed switch &
IP endpoints, and without a doubt a pure-analog system is far simpler, but if
you have cost constraints or physical constraints, and want more functionality
that pure-analog can give you, an asterisk-equipped legacy PBX is a powerful,
flexible option that should not be overlooked.
-Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Begumisa
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 24 FXS Port Voip Gateway and Asterisk
And not to mention the need for power over ethernet switches to avoid having
many power adpaters lying all over. Don't get me wrong, I'm for IP Phones,
however, in this specific scenario that I have, getting an FXS to SIP gateway
with 24 ports makes more sense.
Thanks for all the pointers.
Best Regards,
Joseph
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Andrew Latham <[email protected]> wrote:
And to add to this, analog is useful for its distance when running
wall phones in a large warehouse setting...
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sometimes you need to look at the cost to pull new wire too, not just the
cost of the phones. There are a few cases where the channel banks + analog
phones make sense, especially when the analog devices are already there.
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