I would look at the cost of the channle banks vs. selling the analog phones and getting very basic voip hardphones. --- Conrad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any recommendations on how to > connect 160 analogue > phones to an asterisk PBX? > > Background information: > A client wishes to replace their current PBX with a > new VoIP system. > Currently they have 2 PRIs. > I intent to set up 2 asterisk PBXs with Debian > GNU/Linux on raided > drives. These drives will be mounted only read-only > to recover > gracefully from power-cycles. I am considering 2 > ISDNGuards in front of > the machines. > More to the point: The client has 160 existing > analogue telephones which > they don't really want to change right now, because > a) they are very > cheap b) the users don't need to re-train. > > I have thought of Rhino Channelbanks, but then > realised I need to use 7 > of them and connect each with a T1. I don't really > want to run 7 T1 + > the 2 PRIs into one asterisk box for performance > reasons. > > Ideally, several 48-Port SIP->FXS channelbank woulds > be ideal I > guess ;-). Does such thing exist? Or how do others > do this? > > Conrad > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com > -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users