hy all actually i want to have a setup of five offices having round about 200 extensions ( each office having 35 to 45 ) which will be connected through asterisk. now either i should go for voip phones( hard phones ). or use any interface card to asterisk server to which the analogue phones will be connected. ----- if i use analogue phones in the above case ( we have analogue phones already ) which card should i use.( plzz mention the name of card provided by digium ). ---- i think using some interface cards( for analogue phones and one card for each office) will be cheaper than buying about 200 voip phones. what do u think???? i will be waiting for ur value able suggestion. i have searched alot for this noone has given me a clear suggestion ( mean to say answer at the max 20% of my question ). --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051013/a37bc33a/attachment.htm
I've done exactly this recently. Frankly with hardphones being as cheap as they are I'd buy them. If you are messing about with analogue adapters etc you'll end up with all sorts of potentional echo problems not to mention the cost of the chanel banks etc. A hardphone will enable you many features that an anologue phone would not. Many hardphones have LCD displays and soft keys which you can assign funtions to such as company directories etc. This is possible in the Analogue world through the use of ADSI but an ADSI compliant phone is often more than a hardphone. There are of course network considerations. Can your network sustain the extra traffic the hardphones will add? Do you have the right physical layer at every station (usually CAT5)? Do you want to do Power Over Ethernet or run a small PSU to the wall for each phone? Only you can answer these questions. For my money, witha new install, I'd go all hardphone. I happen to like the Cisco 7960 which goes for about $260. However there are phones as cheap as $50 in quantity. Check out voipsupply.com for prices etc. Mark ishtiaq Ahmed wrote:> hy all > actually i want to have a setup of five offices having round about 200 > extensions ( each office having 35 to 45 ) which will be connected > through asterisk. > now either i should go for voip phones( hard phones ). or use any > interface card to asterisk server to which the analogue phones will be > connected. > > ----- if i use analogue phones in the above case ( we have analogue > phones already ) which card should i use.( plzz mention the name of > card provided by digium ). > > ---- i think using some interface cards( for analogue phones and one > card for each office) will be cheaper than buying about 200 voip phones. > > what do u think???? > i will be waiting for ur value able suggestion. i have searched alot for > this noone has given me a clear suggestion ( mean to say answer at the > max 20% of my question ). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > <http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com
Anyone know where to get a reasonably priced/chat PoE (powered) switch? For about 5-12 ports? -- Michael -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:56 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] what should i select ?????????? I've done exactly this recently. Frankly with hardphones being as cheap as they are I'd buy them. If you are messing about with analogue adapters etc you'll end up with all sorts of potentional echo problems not to mention the cost of the chanel banks etc. A hardphone will enable you many features that an anologue phone would not. Many hardphones have LCD displays and soft keys which you can assign funtions to such as company directories etc. This is possible in the Analogue world through the use of ADSI but an ADSI compliant phone is often more than a hardphone. There are of course network considerations. Can your network sustain the extra traffic the hardphones will add? Do you have the right physical layer at every station (usually CAT5)? Do you want to do Power Over Ethernet or run a small PSU to the wall for each phone? Only you can answer these questions. For my money, witha new install, I'd go all hardphone. I happen to like the Cisco 7960 which goes for about $260. However there are phones as cheap as $50 in quantity. Check out voipsupply.com for prices etc. Mark ishtiaq Ahmed wrote:> hy all > actually i want to have a setup of five offices having round about 200> extensions ( each office having 35 to 45 ) which will be connected > through asterisk. > now either i should go for voip phones( hard phones ). or use any > interface card to asterisk server to which the analogue phones will be> connected. > > ----- if i use analogue phones in the above case ( we have analogue > phones already ) which card should i use.( plzz mention the name of > card provided by digium ). > > ---- i think using some interface cards( for analogue phones and one > card for each office) will be cheaper than buying about 200 voipphones.> > what do u think???? > i will be waiting for ur value able suggestion. i have searched alot > for this noone has given me a clear suggestion ( mean to say answer at> the max 20% of my question ). > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > <http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.y > ahoo.com/unlimited/> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users