On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Kim Culhan wrote:
> There seems to be a little confusion in this thread.. The original posting > asked about using 4 TDM4xx cards to get ~90 FXS ports. > I think Jeff meant TE4xx cards which are T-1/E1 interfaces. > As for the TDM400P on FreeBSD, this should be no problem. > Just use the zaptel-bsd drivers on FBSD 6.0-RELEASE or 6.0-STABLE. > If anyone needs any help getting the source of this and compiling, let me > know. Actually I did mean 4 x TDM400P to get ~90 FXS ports :) I was wondering if anyone had attempted this in one chassis... I am considering bidding on a hotel's phone system upgrade, and cost per port is very important, obviously. I think I see three ways to reach their 90 rooms with existing cabling and analog phones. I can use T1 interfaces and channel banks, and with some of the pricing I have dug up so far this seems to be around $100 / port. I can use 4 x TDM400P (?) and get it down to $60. Then a perhaps hoky idea was to use around 50 dual FXS ATA devices, which potentially gets it down to $35. I say potentially because I haven't used many of these devices, and don't know if the sound quality of an inexpensive ATA is sufficient? Also this only makes sense if PoE is possible, which is something I haven't seen in literature on ATAs. I saw Kim's earlier post about drivers for TDM4xx, which is what prompted the question, actually. So, are the drivers for FBSD6 production stable? Would I be giving myself headaches to install this for a client? I would hate to fall back to Linux, but stability is primary... Thanks! j _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
