On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 18:56, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > > With an analog phone deployment, anything beyond four desksets is best > > accomplished with T1 card(s) in the Asterisk PC and channel banks to > > connect the phones (and probably the PSTN). Whereas the phones could be > > as little as $10 each, you have to budget the price of the channel > > bank(s). If the customer is uncomfortable with eBay, used hardware, > > channel banks could be north of $3000 each. > > I'm not sure what crack you're smoking; 24-port FXS channel banks (Adit > 600s) are about US$400 on ebay, each. FXOs are more expensive, but that's > not what you need here. And you can probably locate higher-density ones > should you require it.
Please reread what is in that first paragraph. Then I think you may wish to issue a retraction for that crack smoking comment. If you notice, Howard says "if your customer is uncomfortable with eBay". This means if you can't sell a piece of eBay equipment to your customer, than you may have to budget $3k or more to purchase one from a equipment vendor. Howard is a good, and trustworthy business person who would be upfront with his customers about the sourcing of some parts that may not then have a warranty. BTW, I do not work for Howard, nor do I have a business relation with Howard. He is just my friend. > > With a net-phone deployment, channel banks are out but more and better > > ethernet switches _may_ be chosen (specifically taking advantage of > > QoS/ToS) or separate voice-IP networks installed alongside data-IP > > networks. For ten desksets, probably not but for eighty??? > > Also factor into the cost of additional (re-)wiring of the existing network. > It's doubtful you'd want to mix heavy voice and data networks together, and > you would also probably want power over ethernet on those phones to avoid a > mountain of wall warts. I don't know about you but I think that being able > to use the existing copper plant for analog phones, buying channel banks > and ~$100 ADSI phones would give you a far more robust network... > > There are arguments for both sides, as you are pointing out. :-) Now you came back to earth and had relevant comments to add and fully understood what was being put forth in the first place. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users