> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Callum McGillivray > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:29 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP Gateways & Asterisk
> We are planning to do an * install in an apartment building, this > building is going to require somewhere in the vacinity of 20 E1 lines > (each with 30 voice channels). > > Short of buying 20 Servers with Digium cards, what are my options in > having the E1 lines terminate on some other hardware and then > having the > calls passed through to Asterisk to perform the PBX type > functionality ? First of all, one has to ask why you need PBX functionality at all? As this is an apartment building, won't the tennants be looking for PSTN dial-tone, rather than local (PBX) dial-tone? Assuming that there is something missing here... You could treat this as a "hospitality" (hotel) type environment, but would certainly have to allow for a lower station:trunk ratio. Still, the thing to do would be to deploy channel banks (Adtran, Adit, etc.) that would be aggregated into the number of E1 ports on your * box required to handle the projected traffic. In other words, you will not encounter a condition where every station will be in use at the same time, so you don't need that many DS0's (channels, if you will) at the PBX. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 04/25/2005 _______________________________________________ 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