I purchased a $299 kit from the VOIP Connection http://www.thevoipconnection.com/store/catalog/product_16215_Asterisk_St arter_Kit.html
It comes with a install CD, book about Astrerisk, a quad line card, and a VoIP phone. Seems like a reasonable price to pay to sample it. I will be installing it to a desktop computer and creating four analog lines to use on the line card. If all goes well we will then move to build a Asterisk system to handle 1500 lines (including 650-700 of those converted back to analog). The cost of doing this is way less than bringing in another Nortel , Cisco, or Avaya PBX. Of course my concern is to create a redundancy type system. With Nortel I am use to their failover system. Larry Gyrion Telecommunications Administrator Manchester College 604 East College Ave North Manchester, IN 46962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] simple over view of the process Hello All, Please forgive the lack of understanding as of yet but I have been trying to follow the mailing list messages over the last few days and would like to know if someone could wither point me into the right direction or possibly give me a brief overview of the complete process. Basically, I see that the Asterisk PBX systems can run on linux and seems to offer the engine base that is needed for the SIP clients to connect. Additionally, it seems that the various hardware (of which I have no idea) if installed into the server will allow the SIP clients to communicate with analog lines. What inexpensive hardware is need to set up a basic system? Thanks, -Lonnie _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
