Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-17 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: [ DELETED] > Realistically, how cheaply can you put together a box with a T-1 card > and a channel bank with 24FXS ports (even disregarding G.729 > transcoding, which would add to the cost)? $700? $800? more? I can't say > for sure, but if you wante

Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Boehm wrote: (for us at least, subtract the price of the TE110P cause all our T1's come to us on DS3s, and we already have DS3 routers in place and paid for.) I'm confused: why would you terminate a T1 from a provider using a channel bank, rather than directly into an Asterisk server?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-14 Thread Matthew Boehm
> Realistically, how cheaply can you put together a box with a T-1 card > and a channel bank with 24FXS ports (even disregarding G.729 > transcoding, which would add to the cost)? $700? $800? more? I can't say > for sure, but if you wanted to use a decent speed machine, I'd expect > that the PC+TE

Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Boehm wrote: If it costs less for me to buy an adtran and another asterisk box to handle the encoding/decoding of that adtran, then there is no point to buying an S240I. That may be true in some very specific cases, but I can think of lots of reasons why an Ethernet-connected "channel bank

Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Boehm
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Matthew Boehm wrote: > >> I'd like to see an S200I, a S600I, a S120I and a S240I. But the >> S240I needs to be cheaper than an Adtran channel bank off ebay. > > Really? You think that an Ethernet-connected 24-port FXS channel bank > with built-in codecs and all that should

RE: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-13 Thread Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)
Matthew Boehm wrote: --- > I'd like to see an S200I, a S600I, a S120I and a S240I. But the S240I > needs to be cheaper than an Adtran channel bank off ebay. Really? You think that an Ethernet-connected 24-port FXS channel bank with built-in codecs and all that should be cheaper th

Re: [Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Boehm wrote: I'd like to see an S200I, a S600I, a S120I and a S240I. But the S240I needs to be cheaper than an Adtran channel bank off ebay. Really? You think that an Ethernet-connected 24-port FXS channel bank with built-in codecs and all that should be cheaper than raw channels via a us

[Asterisk-Users] S100I - competitive price?

2005-04-10 Thread Matthew Boehm
I'm sorry, I don't mean to knock on digium but this quote "at a highly competitive price." is just wrong, and for some reason, it struck a nerve. I guess they are saying this because its IAX and not SIP? Its not competitive because I can buy a PAP2-NA for $50. Granted, the PAP2s don't speak IAX, b