Yeah. The Linksys/Sipura SPA equipment could do that. You’d get a device with the FXO port on one end (I think SPA3000) and then an ATA at the other end.
I don’t think that feature set survived the transition to Cisco…..I’m afraid I don’t know the modern equivalent. Adtran Total Access can do that too, but that’s an expensive solution for a gift shop. Asterisk boxes with an FXO card on one end and FXS card on the other…..a little creativity with the dialplan and you’re off to the races. That might be cheap enough, but this may not be practical for everyone. I’m pretty certain it would work, it would just burn a lot of your time. I’d hope somebody here knows the current good/cheap option, but I’m afraid I don’t. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Craig Baird Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2022 12:48 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] POTS line over IP network? Is anyone aware of a device that will take a POTS line from the telco, convert it to IP, and then somewhere on the network convert it back into a normal analog POTs line to plug into an analog handset? Basically, I have a customer who owns a gift shop. They have a restaurant in a separate building behind the gift shop. Currently, they have a POTS line that is strung from the demarc, and across the ceiling of the gift shop. At the rear, it exits the gift shop and makes its way into the restaurant where it eventually plugs into a phone. They want to get rid of the wire that runs across the ceiling because it looks crazy stupid. Unfortunately, there's a reason the wire was originally run that way--there isn't really another way to get it to the restaurant without tearing a bunch of stuff apart (lack of attic and crawlspace). However, I do have an ethernet network in place between the two buildings, and can relatively easily get a wire from the demarc to a network switch. So, what I'm envisioning is a pair of boxes. One of the boxes plugs into Ethernet has an FXS port to plug in the POTS line. The other box, also plugs into Ethernet and has an FXO port to plug in the phone. They see each other over the IP network, and magically transport the POTS line to where it needs to be. Do such devices exist? Craig
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