asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Any 24 (or 30) way FXS PCI cards?

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 17:53 +0100, Rob Scott wrote:
> It seems to me silly to have a T1/E1 card to connect to a channel bank
> when you could just have a 24/30 way FXS card in the slot in the first
> place.
> 
> Does such a thing exist?
> 
> Wouldn't Digium have a lot of customers if they could produce one for
> say < $1000 retail?
Trouble is power. Unless there is more power made available, you may not
be able to drive the ring voltage of several consecutive lines at once. 

Take for instance the Adit 600, it has a 130w power supply for just 25
ren capability. Think of the troubles that would cause trying to be
regulated through your standard PC PSU of 300w. Won't you just love
trying to diagnose random reboots right after a phone call comes in and
over draws your PSU capacity and it goes into short protection where it
begins pulsing power.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

It seems to me silly to have a T1/E1 card to connect to a channel bank
when you could just have a 24/30 way FXS card in the slot in the first
place.

Does such a thing exist?

Wouldn't Digium have a lot of customers if they could produce one for
say < $1000 retail?

Rob Scott wrote:
> It seems to me silly to have a T1/E1 card to connect to a channel bank
> when you could just have a 24/30 way FXS card in the slot in the first
> place.
Don't be surprised if you see something like that soon.

> It seems to me silly to have a T1/E1 card to connect to a
> channel bank when you could just have a 24/30 way FXS card in the
> slot in the first place. 
Wouldn't a "SIP channel bank" be better - something that has
multiple
FXS and FXO ports but hooks up to Ethernet. I know Wasam (ala Farfon) is
try to build something like this using IAX, but is anything currently
available?

Nabeel

I haven't used their 24 port gateway, only the four port gateway, but they
have
been excellent. 

http://www.mediatrix.com/products_devices.php?prodid=3

Paul

Paul Mahler
www.signate.com

Voip supply has a few 24 port gateways that are FXS based. The biggest
one for FXO is 10 ports. They are not cheap the both cost about $2000
USD.  a Channel bank with a T1 card will cost you about the same at
least with a FXS ports.  

FXO costs more usually because that is typically the Office station side
that has much lager power requirements. Where FXS is the phone/customer
side of the Communications. .

Just found a 12 port single card with opensource drivers

12 user configurable FX0/FXS analogue ports for $1,680 at asterisk mall
( http://www.asteriskmall.com ).

I am not sure how well this card works with asterisk.  Has anyone used
these cards?
>
> Voip supply has a few 24 port gateways that are FXS based. The biggest
> one for FXO is 10 ports. They are not cheap the both cost about $2000
> USD.  a Channel bank with a T1 card will cost you about the same at
> least with a FXS ports.
>
> FXO costs more usually because that is typically the Office station side
> that has much lager power requirements. Where FXS is the phone/customer
> side of the Communications. .

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:53 -0700, Max W Blackmer Jr
wrote:
> Just found a 12 port single card with opensource drivers
> 
> 12 user configurable FX0/FXS analogue ports for $1,680 at asterisk mall
> ( http://www.asteriskmall.com ).
> 
> I am not sure how well this card works with asterisk.  Has anyone used
> these cards?
Compared to a Channel bank(Rhino from asterisk mall, $1249) and T1
card($500) to get 24 FXS ports? $1749 - $1680 = $69 to have a more
expandable system.

Of course you could look around ebay for cheaper channel banks too.
> > Voip supply has a few 24 port gateways that are FXS based. The biggest
> > one for FXO is 10 ports. They are not cheap the both cost about $2000
> > USD.  a Channel bank with a T1 card will cost you about the same at
> > least with a FXS ports.
> >
> > FXO costs more usually because that is typically the Office station
side
> > that has much lager power requirements. Where FXS is the
phone/customer
> > side of the Communications. .
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>