I would just guess that the PCI bus would be pretty busy, with 3 T1 cards. Couldn't that be a problem?
Jon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John covici Sent: 30. november 2006 12:07 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] 200+ analog phones connected to FXS modules You could put at least two Rhino quad t1 cards and that would give you 8 times 24 ports and I heard of one with those cards plus a dual t1 card which is 240 extensions on one server. this would take up 3 pci slots. on Thursday 11/30/2006 Jon Schøpzinsky([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > I think It would be cheaper to use dedicated VoIP PSTN Gateways, such as > audiocodes or similar (audiocodes is actually a bad example, as their not > that cheap). But dedicated ATA hardware with 24 or more ports. > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vieri > Sent: 30. november 2006 10:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [asterisk-users] 200+ analog phones connected to FXS modules > > I am trying to find out the best way to replace one of > our hardware PBXs. It currently has 200+ analog phones > connected to it. The idea is to take advantage of the > already installed phone cables (big building) so I'm > trying to avoid the use of ethernet adapters (if > possible). However, I'm realizing that it's an > expensive setup and will definitely require two or > more cooperating Asterisk servers (cluster) mainly due > to PCI slot availability. > > I am aware of the TDM2400P card. One could put 6 FXS > uqad-modules and would serve 24 analog phones. > > However, I would need at least 9 of these PCI cards > which could be placed in 2 or 3 servers. > > Is there another way of doing this (hopefully cheaper > and more convenient)? > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > Vieri > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
