> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:15 AM > 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)
--- Dovid B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can get a basic VOIP phone for the same price > that it will cost you for > a FXS port. As far as wiring you can go with a bit > more expensive phone and > get a dual port with POE (if they have an existing > computer network). It all depends. http://www.icstel.com has an interesting product. It'a a 48-FXS-port VoIP gateway (product name TopGate). It interfaces with the Asterisk server through ethernet so it looks better than other solutions posted on this list (such as the USB2 product Astribank from Xorcom http://www.xorcom.com/astribank/features-32.html). Mainly because I trust a gigabit ethernet more than USB2 on Linux. Unfortunately there isn't much information on the 48-port TopGate product. So as far as prices are concerned, I found that a 48-port TopGate should cost at most 2500 euros with vat. With 4 of these we could handle 192 of our analog phones. The total cost would be 10000 . A basic IP phone costs 80 euros (hard to find a cheaper and "still decent" phone). So the cost would be 192 * 80 = 15360 euros. 5360 euros is a 50+% increase. And besides we already have the phone cabling infrastructure set and it would be too bad if we couldn't recycle it somehow. However, I don't know if these VoIP gateways are really effective. Has anyone already used something similar? Thanks ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --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
