Marc Carrafiello wrote:
Good afternoon. I guess I'm looking for some community suggestions on what
hardware I should use if I've got 2 analog lines that I need to hook into my
Asterisk PBX. They aren't used under normal circumstances, the pilot
numbers from my PRI are redirected to them when my PRI goes down. So they
really are just for emergency purposes. I'm running a Sangoma A101DE, so I
could either go with another PCIe Sangoma card (A200E/A200DE), or possibly
some other manufacturers card, or is there some external box I could use to
convert the circuits to SIP or IAX? In the server, I don't have PCI at my
disposal, just PCI Express. Also, I'm not adverse to any suggestions that
have me buying 4 ports instead of the 2 I need (if the price & solution is
the right one).
You either need a analog telephony card from Digium or Sangoma or an
analog telephone adapter (ATA). The card at that number of ports are
analog and can come with echo cancellation. You will be able to get just
2 ports in that configuration and scale up to either 4 or 8 on a single
card (for the low end cards).
The ATAs are network connected devices. I use one from Sipura (now owned
by LinkSys, then Cisco). I like it. It's less expensive than a card and
it's worked well.
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