[Asterisk-Users] Hints on hardware to use
Hello, I have to deploy an Asterisk PBX with this requirements: - 1 or 2 ISDN lines in input/output - 14 internal analog phones (yes, I know, analog ones... ;( ) - Billing interface for the operator (for usage of analog phones) For the external interface I'm thinking about Beronet Quad Span ISDN/BRI Card TE/NT (BN4S0). I'm in trouble about the internal interfaces: the first thought was about Digium card (4 x TDM400P with 2 x S100M modules each), but it's difficult to find a MB with 5 PCI, and I'll have no chanches for future expansions. Does anyone of you know a PCI card with 8 FXS port that SURELY works with Asterisk? I'm ready to examine any other piece of hardware with 8 or more FXS ports, too... By the way, for billing operations I'm going to check AstBill sofware; did anyone positively try it with asterisk in operational environment? Any hint will be greatly appreciated... ;) Thanks Jonathan ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hints on hardware to use
Hello, I have to deploy an Asterisk PBX with this requirements: - 1 or 2 ISDN lines in input/output - 14 internal analog phones (yes, I know, analog ones... ;( ) - Billing interface for the operator (for usage of analog phones) For the external interface I'm thinking about Beronet Quad Span ISDN/BRI Card TE/NT (BN4S0). I'm in trouble about the internal interfaces: the first thought was about Digium card (4 x TDM400P with 2 x S100M modules each), but it's difficult to find a MB with 5 PCI, and I'll have no chanches for future expansions. Does anyone of you know a PCI card with 8 FXS port that SURELY works with Asterisk? I'm ready to examine any other piece of hardware with 8 or more FXS ports, too... By the way, for billing operations I'm going to check AstBill sofware; did anyone positively try it with asterisk in operational environment? Any hint will be greatly appreciated... ;) Thanks Jonathan For your internal analog extensions why not get a Digium T1 card and a channel bank. I only have experience with Adtran 600E but they work extremely well and can be had used on ebay for about $600 regularly (if you are lucky you may be able to get it much cheaper.) I read the Rhino channel banks are much cheaper and work well with asterisk but have no personal experience. With the Channel bank solution, you are looking at $500 for the T1 board and another $600 for the channel bank with 24 FXS ports. Its a solid solution and gives you tons of room to upgrade from 14 FXS ports to 24 by simply adding phones. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hints on hardware to use
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15:34, asterisk wrote: Hello, I have to deploy an Asterisk PBX with this requirements: - 1 or 2 ISDN lines in input/output - 14 internal analog phones (yes, I know, analog ones... ;( ) - Billing interface for the operator (for usage of analog phones) For the external interface I'm thinking about Beronet Quad Span ISDN/BRI Card TE/NT (BN4S0). I'm in trouble about the internal interfaces: the first thought was about Digium card (4 x TDM400P with 2 x S100M modules each), but it's difficult to find a MB with 5 PCI, and I'll have no chanches for future expansions. Does anyone of you know a PCI card with 8 FXS port that SURELY works with Asterisk? I'm ready to examine any other piece of hardware with 8 or more FXS ports, too... By the way, for billing operations I'm going to check AstBill sofware; did anyone positively try it with asterisk in operational environment? Jonathan For your internal analog extensions why not get a Digium T1 card and a channel bank. I only have experience with Adtran 600E but they work extremely well and can be had used on ebay for about $600 regularly (if you are lucky you may be able to get it much cheaper.) I read the Rhino channel banks are much cheaper and work well with asterisk but have no personal experience. With the Channel bank solution, you are looking at $500 for the T1 board and another $600 for the channel bank with 24 FXS ports. Its a solid solution and gives you tons of room to upgrade from 14 FXS ports to 24 by simply adding phones. Thanks, Steve Totaro It's surely a better way than mine to solve the problem... But how can I integrate Adtran 600E with Asterisk box (apart the phisical connection with the two T1 ports)? How changes the configuration of Asterisk files? Is it like a bridge across two T1 lines or what? I'm not so expert about this type of Asterisk configurations: can I find hints or docs somewhere? I've also googled a bit, and I've found the MOSA3716 box: 16 FXS and 2 ethernet ports, for about 1.200$ at bobascom. What do you think about it? It seems * compatible, and with ethernet ports it wouldn't need anything else than 1 ISDN card for inbound/outgoing calls... It could be completely transparent to * box and the analog phones... Have you ever heard something about it? Thanks in advance Jonathan ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
