Sometime this winter we want to move our company to asterisk from a very old comdial executech phone system. At this point I have a system setup at home that we've been using for several months. I've tried the grandstream bt101 but have had problems keeping it working - some days the message waiting indicator works sometime it doesn't and caller id display is questionable also I'd like to try the gxp2000, I've heard it can auto answer. I also have a sipura 841 but the speaker phone is terrible on that, and I haven't found a way to setup auto answer for paging or transfer announcement. So I need suggestions on phone that can auto answer for paging - to let people know a call is waiting for them. They also need a good caller id display. Also we are out in the country so a T1 is out of the question price wise. We currently have 4 phone lines and would like to increase that to possibly 8. What hardware would you suggest to connect up to 8 phone lines into the asterisk server?
You could use a Digium TDM2422B, which has 8FXS and 8FXO, and leaves you 8 ports past that for future FXS or FXO expansion. That card, with a normal Asterisk rackmount or tower server, and a mini patch panel and amphenol cable I would think would do the trick. For phones, I would suggest the Linksys SPA-941 or something from Polycom or Snom. Get yourself a decent APC, Tripplite or other battery backup unit as well. Cory J Andrews Partner / Purchasing +++++++++++++++ VOIPSupply.com - Everything you need for VOIP 454 Sonwil Drive Buffalo, NY 14225 +++++++++++++++ tf voice - 800-398-VOIP X22 l voice - 716.630.1555 X22 f - 716.630.1548 e - Cory@VOIPSupply.com AIM - b2Cory Tim Litwiller wrote:> Sometime this winter we want to move our company to asterisk from a > very old comdial executech phone system. > > At this point I have a system setup at home that we've been using for > several months. > I've tried the grandstream bt101 but have had problems keeping it > working - some days the message waiting indicator works sometime it > doesn't and caller id display is questionable also > I'd like to try the gxp2000, I've heard it can auto answer. > I also have a sipura 841 but the speaker phone is terrible on that, > and I haven't found a way to setup auto answer for paging or transfer > announcement. > > So I need suggestions on phone that can auto answer for paging - to > let people know a call is waiting for them. > They also need a good caller id display. > > Also we are out in the country so a T1 is out of the question price > wise. We currently have 4 phone lines and would like to increase that > to possibly 8. > > What hardware would you suggest to connect up to 8 phone lines into > the asterisk server? > > _______________________________________________ > --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 > >
My experience has been to avoid trying to support anlogue phones altogether - not worth the trouble. Things here got much better when we abandoned anlogue and went purely with SIP phones. The Grandstream 100s weren't that good (poor sound quality), but we have been mighty impressed with the Polycom Soundpoint 501s. I got a 301 as well, but it doesn't provide power over Ethernet so it's not as good for our purposes. You'll definitely want to reference http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Polycom+Soundpoint+IP+501 when configuring. Obviously you'll aslo want a router that supports QoS. We're using Sveasoft in a Linksys WRT54G and it works well. You need to be careful when buying the Linksys because version 5.0 saw a move from Linux, which runs Sveasoft's Talisman firmware, to VxWorks, which does not. You can tell the version from the s/n: CDF0 = WRT54G v1.0 CDF1 = WRT54G v1.0 CDF2 = WRT54G v1.1 CDF3 = WRT54G v1.1 CDF5 = WRT54G v2.0 CDF7 = WRT54G v2.2 CDF8 = WRT54G v3.0 CDF9 = WRT54G v3.1 CDFA = WRT54G v4.0 CDFB = WRT54G v5.0 (runs VxWorks, not Linux) CGN0 = WRT54GS v1.0 CGN1 = WRT54GS v1.0 CGN2 = WRT54GS v1.1 CGN3 = WRT54GS v2.0 CGN4 = WRT54GS v2.1 CGN5 = WRT54GS v3.0 CGN6 = WRT54GS v4.0 SJH0 = WTR54GS v1.0 Hugh On 11/22/05, Tim Litwiller <tim@litwiller.net> wrote:> Sometime this winter we want to move our company to asterisk from a very > old comdial executech phone system. > > At this point I have a system setup at home that we've been using for > several months. > I've tried the grandstream bt101 but have had problems keeping it > working - some days the message waiting indicator works sometime it > doesn't and caller id display is questionable also > I'd like to try the gxp2000, I've heard it can auto answer. > I also have a sipura 841 but the speaker phone is terrible on that, and > I haven't found a way to setup auto answer for paging or transfer > announcement. > > So I need suggestions on phone that can auto answer for paging - to let > people know a call is waiting for them. > They also need a good caller id display. > > Also we are out in the country so a T1 is out of the question price > wise. We currently have 4 phone lines and would like to increase that > to possibly 8. > > What hardware would you suggest to connect up to 8 phone lines into the > asterisk server? > > _______________________________________________ > --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 >
Steve Totaro
2005-Nov-22 13:27 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: I need suggestions for on equipment
> > hugolivude <hugolivude@gmail.com> wrote: > > >You need to be > >careful when buying the Linksys because version 5.0 saw a move from > >Linux, which runs Sveasoft's Talisman firmware, to VxWorks, whichdoes> >not. > > Why would I care what OS an embedded device uses? Is there a > difference in the externally observable behavior? >Because the stock firmware does not support QoS. You need one that runs linux and then load the hacked firmware by either sveasoft or I prefer OpenWRT since you can run OpenVPN other packages.
Time Bandit
2005-Nov-22 14:16 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: I need suggestions for on equipment
> Because the stock firmware does not support QoS. You need one that runs > linux and then load the hacked firmware by either sveasoft or I prefer > OpenWRT since you can run OpenVPN other packages.Actually, QoS is in the standard frimware since somewhere around version 3.something