asterisk users - Jan 2004 - Disturbing trend of * production boxes that shouldn't be

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Gary Franczyk
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:37 AM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Basic Asterisk capabilities question
> 
> 
> Whaaa?? So, to allow 24+ lines of dial in access, how would I 
> configure it?
> 
> Would I need to purchase or lease a voice-over-ip box to 
> connect our T1 or phone lines into?  And then from there send 
> the VOIP to the linux/Asterisk box for recording?
> 
> (forgive me, Im new to telephony, but I need to make this work) :-)
This is a disturbing trend....people who don't know much about Asterisk
and/or Linux and/or telephony who "Need to make these things work" or
"need to know how to update [their] production box installation...sorry
I don't know Linux at all".

Asterisk is great, but to maintain it and especially to repair things
when they've gone wrong, you need to know what you're doing.  Its your
job (the people I'm talking about know who they are), so do as you wish,
but I sure would install something I know little or nothing about and
call it production.

Daryl G. Jurbala
BMPC Network Operations
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how do you spell Teleecooomm again?


daryl@introspect.net wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com 
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>>Gary Franczyk
>>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:37 AM
>>To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
>>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Basic Asterisk capabilities question
>>
>>
>>Whaaa?? So, to allow 24+ lines of dial in access, how would I 
>>configure it?
>>
>>Would I need to purchase or lease a voice-over-ip box to 
>>connect our T1 or phone lines into?  And then from there send 
>>the VOIP to the linux/Asterisk box for recording?
>>
>>(forgive me, Im new to telephony, but I need to make this work) :-)
>>    
>>
>
>This is a disturbing trend....people who don't know much about Asterisk
>and/or Linux and/or telephony who "Need to make these things work"
or
>"need to know how to update [their] production box installation...sorry
>I don't know Linux at all".
>
>Asterisk is great, but to maintain it and especially to repair things
>when they've gone wrong, you need to know what you're doing.  Its
your
>job (the people I'm talking about know who they are), so do as you wish,
>but I sure would install something I know little or nothing about and
>call it production.
>
>Daryl G. Jurbala
>BMPC Network Operations
>Tel (NY): +1 917 477 0468 x235
>Tel (MI): +1 616 608 0004 x235
>Tel (UK): +44 208 792 6813 x235
>Fax: +1 508 526 8500
>INOC-DBA: 26412*DGJ
>
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I am real close to finalizing my hardware selection for my Asterisk test
machine.   I am going to use the following hardware:

Dell 400SC w\Red Hat 9.0

1 - 4 Port TDM40B Card (FXS)
3 - Wildcard X100P Cards (FXO)


Are there any known conflicts using this setup in this machine?   I will be
occupying all the PCI slots for this configuration.   Also, is it worth the
trouble to tie Asterisk into our present system which is a Panasonic D816
Hybrid System, or should I just dump our current Panasonic system all
together?   

Thanks,

Charles Alvis
Internet Technology Group, Inc.
Redmond, WA









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