asterisk users - Apr 2006 - Looking for input on which way to go with smallbusiness setup

If you use a Sangoma T1 card, (A10x) card you can send both voice and
data down the same T1 and have the Sangoma card split it for you.

If you are talking about non-hobby usage, stay away from FXO adapters
and go with a T1.. You'll be much happier in the long run. For a
fractional T1, don't worry about hardware echo, asterisk will handle the
echo fine.

I would seriously consider shelling out for a decent phone. For example,
the Polycom 301 is an entry level phone that isn't too expensive.  Your
users will hate using an analog phone for transferring and forwarding. 

If you decide to run analog phones, then you may as well get a multiport
FXS to T1 device and then buy a 2x T1 card like the A102 from Sangoma,
or the Digium equivalent.

I would suggest that the 768k/s fractional T1 will cost you more then a
3Mb/512Kb DSL line, so go with the DSL if your SLA can live with the
occasional outage.

Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of T. Shaw
Sent: April 27, 2006 4:09 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Looking for input on which way to go with
smallbusiness setup

Hey guys!
I'm the past week and a half, I have really learned a lot from the
mailing list and the wiki's posted online.

Now I have a question regarding different ways I can setup my asterisk
server for a small business with 12 extensions in the office. Cost is a
great concern, so I know cheap analog phones at the desks is what we are
looking at. My question is, should I go do a fractional T1 for voice
only, and the get a Internet Service provider for their data needs, get
some sort of ATA and run the 12 analog phones to that OR go with what
SBC/AT&T (in my
area) is offering, and do the "Integrated T1" option and have just the
12 channels for voice, run some ATA between * and the phones and use the
768 up and down for data? Anyone use this "Integrated T1" with
asterisk
before?
What hardware did you use?

Thanks for your input!


Terrelle
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