On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am looking at going down the same path, looking/playing with asterix. And there seems to be a familiar choice.
1) to either cable every thing back to a PC (make it into a PC/PABX), with digium cards or 2) Buy voip phones, that connect directly to ethernet or 3) Buy converters like the supuria spa3000 to convert analogue lines into voip (ethernet) I think option 1 is probably the way to go for a small business, nice and simple to replace a pabx, the old cable would probably work. But I see that it is limited by the number of slots in the machine and how dense the digium cards can be made - is the current 4 ports to a card the highest density available ? option 2 mean a whole new investment on phones and probably new wiring as the old telco wiring isn't cat5 compliant, some place it is, most house it wouldn't be option 3 seem like the simplest way forward, the path I have tried out at my parents (quick and dirty entry into voip), the spa3000 has voip and pstn access. And it looks like you can connect it to a asterix server (yet for me to do). But what it has allowed me to do, is get easy access to voip, simply unplugged the phone cable from the wall and place the spa3000 in between the phone and the wall. also connected it to the network, done. My next step is to actually get some voip phones, I noticed recent there are wireless handsets (802.11b/g) becoming available this interests me? Can somebody maybe enlighten me why people have chosen option 1 Also I believe somebody was trying to set up a VOIP mailing list Alex > > > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > >What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with > >Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks > >about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent? > > The GS Budgetone is available in AU from Australian Technology > Partnership http://www.austechpartnerships.com/atp/ > > I have one and I also have the GS GXP2000, also available from ATP. > Although this is more expensive I believe it is better especially for > corporate use. > > If you're going to get the GS BT then get the 102, not the 101, as the > former has a builtin 10mbps Ethernet hub so you can put the phone in > line with your PC. I see that there is also a BT200 model, there is > also a video model in the GXP range if your pocket is deep :) > > > > >What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with the > >POTS? The book mentions "Digium X100P". > > I use the Digium TDM400P. It will allow 4 daughter modules which can be > any mix of none/FXS/FXO. You will need an FXO (red) module for each > incoming analogue line and an FXS (green) module for each > fax/cordless/analogue phone you wish to use on your local system. > > > > >I know I don't need both; I want to experiment. > > With the GS GXP2000 it has the ability to be programmed as a router in > addition to being a phone so you can have a whole intranet running off it. > > I attended the SLUG talk > >on VoIP - back then a lot of it didn't make sense so I didn't take notes > >:-) > > When you have sorted out your mail server you can contact me off list if > you want more info. :) > > > > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > -- > Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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