Arturo Ochoa
2008-Jun-20 21:42 UTC
[asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation.
Dear List, I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the cable is CAT 3. Any recommendations on what card to use? TDM24XXP vs Channel Bank? Regards, Ing. Arturo Ochoa N Electrosystems S RL Tel. (656)-6230794 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080620/2a236690/attachment.htm
80 rooms? I guess you and I have slightly differing opinions as to what a "small" motel is. :) If you have 80 analogue channels, then you'd need 4 TDM2400P cards. Unless your server is powered by a small nuclear reactor, you'll be better off with either 3 E1 or 4 T1 channels banks or 2 32 port XR0008 and 1 16 port XR0006 Astribanks. Arturo Ochoa wrote:> > Dear List, > > > > I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to > a Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the > cable is CAT 3. > > > > Any recommendations on what card to use? > > TDM24XXP vs Channel Bank? > > > > Regards, > > > > Ing. Arturo Ochoa N > > Electrosystems S RL > > Tel. (656)-6230794 > > > > !DSPAM:485c27f840251159815309! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > !DSPAM:485c27f840251159815309! >
Jay R. Ashworth
2008-Jun-21 17:32 UTC
[asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:42:28PM -0600, Arturo Ochoa wrote:> I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a > Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the cable > is CAT 3.You might want to consider snagging an FXS channelbank off of eBay (we use the Zhones, which work pretty well for us), and using a multi-port T-1 card. If this is not a business motel, you'll likely get by with 24 trunks, so a quad-T card would support both your incoming lines and 3 channel banks (we seem to pay about $180-240 for them, making this cost effective), assuming "approximately 80" isn't more than 72. :-) If that's not enough ports, then yeah, you'll probably be best served going to a Ethernet gateway; I personally have never liked the idea of stuffing that much FXS inside a PC chassis. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)
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