On the very small side you can slap an FXO port or two in your server and your 4 SIP phones can share without much of a problem. As I see it, the issue comes with the installs just above this. When you need 4 or 6 FXO ports and you also want a some FXS ports, now you are looking at trying to stuff 3 loaded PCI cards into a box. Installing a mux for 9 ports seems like a bit overkill but is really your only option in many cases. The other problem is that, between the T100P and the mux, your bill is getting fairly large (I do not personally know where the $100 channel banks are, especially with a mix of FXO and FXS ports).
An Ethernet channel bank would be great, especially to fill this niche. I think the post below hits it on the head. IAX2 back to the server, modular ports, various sized cages...wow. The SBC availability or SNMP monitoring would just be icing on the cake. A dumb box-o-ports is really all that is necessary.
IAX2 over Ethernet is the new T1!!
Please, take my e-mail address and let me know when I can pre-order ;-)
James
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Ethernet Channel Bank idea From: "Michael Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:52:33 -0600
...SNIP...
I think that one real opportunity, perhaps of many potentials, is the smaller installation. We suffer the lack of small format, reliable FXOs. If the proposed hardware was DSP based, modular and supported up to say 8 (?) FXOs in addition to however many FXS ports then I'd be willing to pay 2x the cost of existing small FXO adapters like the Sipura SPA-3000 on a per port basis.
Also, unlike the SPAs, we're targeting * installations. Therefore, don't bother putting a whole lot of complex dialplan stuff into the firmware. Just presume to act as appendages to the * server.
Support IAX2 over ether as your connection back to *. Make the cage in a couple of sizes such that I can deploy a small one standalone at a remote location.
If you wish to get fancy, put a SBC style PC into on a card that fits into the cage. That way I can put my * server right in the box for SOHO installations.
Michael --
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