Aaron Joyner wrote:
Consider replacing each extension with a Budgetone phone at ~$60 per phone(1), and you're looking at $720 for handsets, then $15 or so for an
Grandstream phones are crap. Trust me. Avoid them unless you enjoy collecting broken plastic. Buy Polycoms or Ciscos. You won't be disappointed.
Never before have I heard Asterisk ruled out because of its cost. :) No matter what you replace your dead system with, you're going to have to buy phones. This is the biggest expense with an Asterisk system. Sometimes the only expense.
The Digium Wildcard cards are quality hardware. I haven't played with their multi-port (24+) cards yet but have high hopes for them. I *do* have TDM04B cards for multiple FXO (incoming) lines and am very pleased with them.
I don't know if you need to keep that many extensions around but if not, FXS devices like the Linksys PAP2 or Packet8 DTA-310 terminal adapters can tie the phones together using a single extension or two. Those terminal adapters can be had for ~ $50 for 2 ports (plus analog phones to go with them).
Nothing beats a SIP phone, though. Just don't buy Grandstream. :) Cheers! Mark Turner, Asterisk freak www.siteseers.net www.markturner.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
