On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:39 am, Ed Greenberg wrote: > OK, here's my simple explanation... > > Incoming service, called FXO... that is, telephone offices (lines): These > need to be terminated in your asterisk box. Digium sells a variety of > hardware for the purpose. I use a TDM400 card which takes four little > modules. I have two FXO modules for my two lines. what exactly do you call modules? is it hardware or software? sorry for knowing so little :)
> Incoming service via VOIP. Many VOIP services can terminate directly in > your asterisk box. Some require that you use THEIR hardware (like Vonage). > If the latter kind, you will have to use another FXO module or change VOIP > providers. I can plug my VoIP directly into a regular phones right now so I guess it should be ok. > Analog telephone sets are terminated in FXS ports. Again, Digium makes > several options. I terminate two sets in my TDM400 card. One is a cordless > phone. The other is a regular telephone. > > Digital (voip) phones need to be added to the network. Most of these are > expensive, even on eBay, but heck, we are doing this for fun, not to same > money, right? You can plug these phones into your hubs or plug them into > wifi with an ethernet to wifi bridge. I haven't tried this, but I am going > to work on it over Thanksgiving unless we go away. I'll certainly post my > results. > > If you have a free PCI card in your Debian box, you could install a TDM400 > with one FXO and three FXS cards. You could wire your analog line and your > analog phones to the back of the Debian box. You could also buy some IP > phones. I looked on http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=wildcard_tdm400p2 but I didn't really get it. I have to buy a TDM400 PCI card and then I need add other FXO or FXS cards to this PCI cards? so i need to buy several other cards for it (which wouldn't be a problem, I'm just a little confused)? > Feel free to question on this. another newbie question, if i want to use a regular cordless phone, can I plug it into my TDM400 digium card (in addition to my 2 phones lines)? I guess that's how it works right? I think I'm gonna go this way cause wifi VoIP phone are a bit expensive right now although I might want to try them later :) thanx for all your answers Pat _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
