On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:22:43PM -0600, James Taylor wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:17:59 -0500, Dorn Hetzel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:16:24PM -0600, James Taylor wrote: > >>On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:43:00 -0500, Dorn Hetzel > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:27:52PM +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: > >>>>Greg Hill wrote: > >>>> > >>>>I am looking for a small device with four FXO and one WAN connection. > >>>>Simple, so that the cleaning woman can make a hardware reset if > >>>>necessary. This device should be connnected to my Asterisk box. The > >>box > >>>>will be used in areas where DIDs are not available yet, and where you > >>>>not even can make ads for it ;-( > >>>>It should be cheap, and it should connect either with SIP or IAX. > >>>>No FXS is needed !!! > >>>> > >>>I'm not sure, but I think your best price/performance solution > >>>might be a very small linux system (1U or smaller) with one > >>>Digium TDM400P+4*FXO daughtercards. At least the the size > >>>point of 4*FXO, this may turn out to be your winner. If it > >>>boots from flash, your cleaning lady can always apply power > >>>cycle for anything you can't fix via ssh... > >>> > >>>By using this solution, you would also get the ongoing > >>>bandwidth benefit of being able to trunk all 4 FXO calls > >>>out in a single IAX frame. This will save you money on > >>>an on-going basis if your bandwidth costs are significant. > >>> > >>>Perhaps Soekris would be a good box for this solution, > >>>but there may be even smaller devices with the needed > >>>1*PCI interface, I don't know. > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>> > >>>-Dorn > >> > >>A MAX 4096 will work. And they're cheap. > >>I'm using the TNT's. > >>Contact me off list. > >> > > > >That seems kind of overkill to service 4 pots lines ... > > > And, you can't do DID on pots lines. > You can use BRI. > or You can use 4 wire trunks. > It's cheaper to do T1's and only use a few channels. >
(a) there are definitely analog DID implementations out there. not saying they're pretty, but they exist... (b) are you really sure it's cheaper with only 4 channels to do a T1? including local loop? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users