On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:13:58 -0500, Jon Pounder wrote: > >Well for those of you living under fear of the phone cops :
Personally, not me, BUt unless there is the appropriate c-tick (australian approval) we can't even legally sell a telephone related product in this country & how can we convince a customer to buy an "unauthorised" piece of equipment ? >1) I can't see how you need any sort of permission to hook up an fxs port - >it does not connect to anything more than a telephone. Same way the phone >company has no jurisdiction over your mouse, the phone is just another >peripheral. (with longer wires) Agreed on this one actually. >2) for the fxo ports, why not just get something like the fxs -> fxo >converter being talked about on here lately - get one that is approved in >your country and you keep the phone cops happy since that is what is >plugged in your line. Yes, it does sound like an interesting device, but again it would require "approval" plus does it have capability ? I refer to caller-id pass thru etc. >While I agree this idea has merit - its already been done - look at >dialogic for example ... the higher density cards are much cheaper per port >than the voicetronix stuff. not that much support around here for dialogic either.... >At 01:54 PM 3/29/2003 +1000, you wrote: >>On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:13:01 +1000 AEST, Jim Gottlieb wrote: >> >> > >> >> Consider a card which could be configured as selectable fxo or fxs and >> >> 12 to 20 ports. >> > >> >Sounds to me like a channel bank. >> > >> >>Ah, but its not !! >> >>See the problem is that you guys are thinking wrong (in my opinion) and >>very local based. >> >>Consider that for the moment such devices as channel banks DID NOT >>exisit. Then consider that in many parts of the world they dont !! >> >>Why not have a PCI card with configurable ports (FXS/FXO) ? >> >>Yes voicetronics do have one, but lets be honest, its not support in >>asterisk and it is quite overpriced (especially for the local >>australian market).... Why spedn $USD2k = roughly $AUD4k plus 10% local >>tax when you can go out an buy a key system for less ?? >> >>Channels banks are not the answer either, you still need another card >>(e1/t1) to drive it. >> >>With what I am suggesting, you AVOID the need of a channel bank and a >>t1/e1 card especially when you only have normal analogue PSTN lines >>available. If you do have PRI/BRI then the appropriate card is >>available. >> >>Now of course if such a card became available and it was designed/built >>correctly we could even get local approval and actually use "legally" >> >>Gary >> >>PS: don't forget cut down versions on same board = approval as well, so >>more for the same cost >> >>. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Asterisk-Users mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users . _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
