Ignoring SS7, why exactly are you setting up several boxes ? there are quad E1 cards no ?
This is way out of my league, but I just want to understand.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Michel Hiver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 12:19
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can Asterisk replace Cisco 5350?


Linuxnizer The Mesmorizer a écrit :

Hi,
We are using Cisco5350 as a gateway with 2 E1 cards (part# AS535-DFC-2CE1) to terminate calls. We need 2 more gateways, my question is can we save some money and use Asterisk + PCI E1 cards?

I've had the same issue lately. I need to set up a 4E1 / g.729 solution.


Asterisk way
========

- 4 asterisk boxes with 1 E1 card (approx $2k each)
- 120 g.729 licences ($1.2k)
- 1 SER box to dispatch the calls on the 4 asterisk boxes ($1k)

Total: 4 * 2 + 1.2 + 1 = 10.2


In the end, I went on voipsupply.com and saw that they offer Audiocodes mediant 2000 (4 E1 version) for about $10k. Since this box also does SS7 (which is nice if you want to properly interconnect some day), can scale up to 16 E1 and is conveniently packed in a 1U rackable unit, I have decided to go with Audiocodes.

Since I am not set up yet, I can't tell wether it is a good decision or not. I will let you know :)


Cheers,
Jean-Michel.

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