At 12:05 23/01/2008 +0100, Jonathan GF wrote: >Analogue lines are inexpensive because (A/S/V)DSL connections involve a >free landline number without any montly cost, doesn't matter how much you call
Yup, it's usually called "triple-play". My ISP also offers this, but I don't need a connector to my phone plug because it also offers direct SIP access to their telephony server, which means I can just configure Asterisk to connect to the server directly, and avoid the digital-analog-digital conversion between the Central Office (CO) and the Asterisk box. Americans usually don't care as much because local phone calls have been free or very cheap for about 20 years now. Don't know if that's true throughout the US or just the major cities. >(Euro) ISDN is becoming inexpensive with the pass of the time and it >provides a lot of channels (24 in Europe) with just one card. Almost all >down-to-earth companies have ISDN at office. I don't know the %, but the vast majority of standard PBX (ie. not IP PBXs using regular PC parts) are connected to the phone network with ISDN. It's pretty hard to find a PBX that supports analog lines. But then, ISDN lines are of a better quality and offer additional services, so it's worth it for companies. >My idea for the future once AstLinux is at least in version 1.0 is to try >use it on servers with a reiser card for production environment. reiser = riser? http://www.orbitmicro.com/images/risers/right_riser_card_example_large.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
