RE: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Rusty Shackleford
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > shane fowler > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:10 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk > 600 analog connections. Some rooms have 2-3 phones

RE: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread William Boehlke
ssion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shane > fowler > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:10 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Harry McGregor
As others have already posted about methods to reduce the number of T1s into your Asterisk box, I will look at some other issues, and a differnt angle. On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:09 -0500, shane fowler wrote: > we are looking at the ability of being able to convert large phone system > over to aste

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Michael D Schelin
Oh one more thing. There is a 300 foot limit to Ethernet. Also the minimum number of wires is 4. shane fowler wrote: we are looking at the ability of being able to convert large phone system over to asterisk or if it's possible at all. The building is two sections containing a large office se

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Michael D Schelin
If your rooms analog phones are wired with cat 3 cabling you can do 10 Mb over it. Convert all the rooms to Ethernet and use large switches. One Asterisk box should do the trick. Remember not every room will be using the phone system at the same time. This should work for you. shane fowle

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Hamilton
And then you'd need to purchase 700 VoIP phones; not a small investment. With all due respect to Mr. Schelin, I think the analog method may be best, unless you plan to expand the services that you offer to the guests. If the rooms did have cat3, you could eventually expand your offering to include

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread John Novack
Andy Hamilton wrote: And then you'd need to purchase 700 VoIP phones; not a small investment. With all due respect to Mr. Schelin, I think the analog method may be best, unless you plan to expand the services that you offer to the guests. If the rooms did have cat3, you could eventually expand you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Joseph Gutowski
How does his choice of analog or ethernet/SIP phones in the rooms make a difference for E911? They'd still be interfacing with the same Asterisk box and using the same outgoing trunks. And if the setup handles E911 properly for one (which I don't believe would be possible), it would do it for the o

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Lyman
*snipped I'm not saying its a bad idea, but some information about what they're hoping to gain, the type of clientelle they have, and how much they're willing to spend (i.e. would they see a benefit to tying this into wiring ethernet to all the rooms for guest use and giving higher-end business cli

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-16 Thread Michael D Schelin
Good point. Here is another Suggestion. Why not use the existing analog phones to their PBX and go out to channel banks for their phone line trunks. Then go to Asterisk for the rest. They don't have 700 trunks. This will save on equipment costs and you will get some of the benefits of Aster

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-16 Thread Andy Hamilton
The cat 3 issue depends on your phone, if you went with VoIP phones, you would need to make sure that it could be set/forced to 10Mbps. I have only used Cisco phones, and, save the 7910 and 7902 (may a few others), they all are fully capable of doing 100Mbps because of their internal switch (you ca

Re: [Asterisk-Users] large analog to asterisk

2005-04-16 Thread C F
The way to do this in my opinion is to stay with analog phones in the room and *not* ip phones for a couple of reasons: With Cellphones the way they are right now, you will never recover and/or justify the costs ($60 per phone plus wiring for IP, vs $5 per phone and no wiring for analog). Over comp