On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:42:28PM -0600, Arturo Ochoa wrote: > I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a > Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the cable > is CAT 3.
You might want to consider snagging an FXS channelbank off of eBay (we use the Zhones, which work pretty well for us), and using a multi-port T-1 card. If this is not a business motel, you'll likely get by with 24 trunks, so a quad-T card would support both your incoming lines and 3 channel banks (we seem to pay about $180-240 for them, making this cost effective), assuming "approximately 80" isn't more than 72. :-) If that's not enough ports, then yeah, you'll probably be best served going to a Ethernet gateway; I personally have never liked the idea of stuffing that much FXS inside a PC chassis. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
