asterisk users - Feb 2006 - Aasterisk large-scale deployment w/analog phones

hello,

I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system, using analog phones. It will
consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have access to a VoIP server.
I am considering an option to use a couple of asterisk boxes, bundled with a
total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.

Has anyone on this list done something similar? It would be great to hear
some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning - Do you think is it better
to distribute resources among multiple (more than two), lower-port-density
asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a channelbank for that purpose?

Cheers
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Hello,

If you are doing that many analog extensions you might want to
consider 4 channelbanks and a quad T1 card instead(or two 2-port cards
in two servers). Four TDM24XX cards will draw a whole lot of power and
would be much harder to replace than an exterior channelbank if
something goes wrong with one of them. Cost should be about the same
overall(depending on which channelbanks you buy), except you will be
able to use a much smaller server case with the quad T1 card.

The most we have done is two channelbanks off of a quad T1 card in a
single machine and it works just fine.

MATT---

On 2/15/06, maka <icokan@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system, using analog phones. It
will
> consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have access to a VoIP server.
> I am considering an option to use a couple of asterisk boxes, bundled with
a
> total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.
>
> Has anyone on this list done something similar? It would be great to hear
> some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning - Do you think is it
better
> to distribute resources among multiple (more than two), lower-port-density
> asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a channelbank for that purpose?
>
> Cheers
>
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I may be missing something here but why wouldnt ATA's
work ? (other than cost).
--- maka <icokan@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system,
> using analog phones. It will
> consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have
> access to a VoIP server.
> I am considering an option to use a couple of
> asterisk boxes, bundled with a
> total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.
> 
> Has anyone on this list done something similar? It
> would be great to hear
> some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning -
> Do you think is it better
> to distribute resources among multiple (more than
> two), lower-port-density
> asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a
> channelbank for that purpose?
> 
> Cheers
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I would've expected a channel bank or two to be the definitive solution.
With a T-1 connection or two back to the * server.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Aasterisk large-scale deployment w/analog
> phones
> From: Dovid Bender <asteriskdigium@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, February 15, 2006 3:58 pm
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
> 
> I may be missing something here but why wouldnt ATA's
> work ? (other than cost).
> --- maka <icokan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > 
> > I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system,
> > using analog phones. It will
> > consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have
> > access to a VoIP server.
> > I am considering an option to use a couple of
> > asterisk boxes, bundled with a
> > total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.
> > 
> > Has anyone on this list done something similar? It
> > would be great to hear
> > some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning -
> > Do you think is it better
> > to distribute resources among multiple (more than
> > two), lower-port-density
> > asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a
> > channelbank for that purpose?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > 
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> 
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> 
> interesting
> 
Please trim your posts esp. if you are replying with just one word!

Consider also a set of AudioCodes MP124s. These are 24 port ATAs. Work well 
for us.

Four of them would give 96 ports.

No zap hardware needed to connect the channel banks.

</edg>

--On Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:14 PM +0200 maka <icokan@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am planning a fairly large hotel VoIP system, using analog phones. It
> will consist of about 100 analog phones, that must have access to a VoIP
> server. I am considering an option to use a couple of asterisk boxes,
> bundled with a total of four TDM2460E cards, and one TDM2451E card.
>
> Has anyone on this list done something similar? It would be great to hear
> some comments regarding a smilar setuyp/planning - Do you think is it
> better to distribute resources among multiple (more than two),
> lower-port-density  asterisk servers? Or is it better to use a
> channelbank for that purpose?
>
> Cheers