Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-18 Thread Rich Adamson
Surprise, people. While geeks may be all in favor of used equipment (and yes, most of it is probably no worse than new equipment), there are many customers who are uncomfortable with buying used equipment, probably because many of them have gotten burned in the past. I probably shouldn't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-18 Thread Stephen R. Besch
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:34, Steve Murphy wrote: Hello-- I've been asked an interesting question, and I'm too ignorant to answer it authoritatively (yet). Can anyone help me? Question: If I'm going to implement a somewhat small (10-80) phone system, and I have a choice of using VOIP phoneset

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Leif Madsen
Steve Murphy wrote: Hello-- I've been asked an interesting question, and I'm too ignorant to answer it authoritatively (yet). Can anyone help me? Question: If I'm going to implement a somewhat small (10-80) phone system, and I have a choice of using VOIP phoneset (like SNOM or Grandstream or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Howard White
bottom response = on On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:34, Steve Murphy wrote: Hello-- I've been asked an interesting question, and I'm too ignorant to answer it authoritatively (yet). Can anyone help me? Question: If I'm going to implement a somewhat small (10-80) phone system, and I have a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Monday 17 November 2003 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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Steven Critchfield
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,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP phonesets vs. cheap Analog touch-tone sets with Asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
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