On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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> 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
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?
> 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
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
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
Matthew Boehm wrote:
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> 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
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
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