Thanks for all the advice, everyone. Noted the FXS power issue. As for cost of channel banks versus PCI cards, I was looking rather at something like the Rhino board:
http://www.voipon.co.uk/rhino-r24fxxec-24-port-analog-pci-card-base-board-wec-p-568.html Fully loaded with 12 x dual FXS, that works out at under £1000 (= ca $1370). However, given the interrupt problem, I can see this is not going to work. Three channel banks is going to work out about the same price as 60 SIP handsets, so I still have to make my mind up. Not finding the Draytek 24-port ATA for sale in the UK, but would be interested how that compares in price. I also wondered about possibly having mutiple asterisk boxes - say, one per 24-port FXS PCI card, but again, the price is probably going to end up being about the same. Thanks also for the advice re: the net5501 and PRI. I should clarify - although the office has a PRI, it has only 8 channels. Does this mean the 5501 might be able to handle it, or is it still too much? Thanks again Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
