Hello Claudius:
Philip's response was based on the assumption that you are going to use your T1
as a "T1 Trunk" for voice/phone services from Bell. Your regular T1 transmits
and receives at 1.544 Mb/s. Strictly speaking the telco language, the T1 is
capable of 24 voice circuits, that is "channels". Assuming you had your T1
strictly for voice/phone services, you could technically have a total of 24
incoming and/or outgoing calls.
So Philip is correct assuming you are trying to use a combination of both Data
service & Voice service through your T1.
Now here is the beauty. Your:
T1 è Cisco Router è Switch èweb server
èAsterisk box
technically speaking IS possible... using your current Cisco Router...
assuming that you will use your Asterisk box as a 100% VOIP server. This
would mean that you are subscribing to VOIP service through some VOIP provider
like Unlimitel.
To make things simple, get yourself another IP address & configure your Cisco
router appropriately, so that your Asterisk box can use a free IP.
If you don't want to use your Asterisk box as a true 100% VOIP server, but wish
to process voice services from Bell directly, then you would of course need a
T1 card from Sangoma or Digium.
Hope this sheds some light from two different perspectives.
Cheers!
