asterisk users - May 2006 - End of migration: adding support for some analog phones

Hi,
during gradual migration to Asterisk, I put Asterisk in front of a legacy
Alcatel PBX:
  PRI PSTN <--> Asterisk <--> E1 cable <--> Alcatel PBX

After successful deployment of VoIP phones, it's time to drop Alcatel PBX!
I'd like to keep some of analog lines to support modem, fax and some older
stuff. What's the best choice? A channel bank or a TDM2400P card?
Can I use a TDM2400P board together with the actual TE410P?

Thanks
-- 
Domenico Viggiani

2006/5/26, Mimmus <dviggiani@tiscali.it>:
>
> Hi,
> during gradual migration to Asterisk, I put Asterisk in front of a legacy
> Alcatel PBX:
>   PRI PSTN <--> Asterisk <--> E1 cable <--> Alcatel PBX
>
> After successful deployment of VoIP phones, it's time to drop Alcatel
PBX!
> I'd like to keep some of analog lines to support modem, fax and some
older
> stuff. What's the best choice? A channel bank or a TDM2400P card?
> Can I use a TDM2400P board together with the actual TE410P?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Domenico Viggiani
>From many inputs, channel bank seems to be the more reliable solution today
as you cannot get bridging inside TDM2400 yet.
I've been told this bridging feature is planned but not commited.

PS: How many users were at start connected to Alcatel PBX ? What did you do
for voicemail during migration ?
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> I'd like to keep some of analog lines to support modem, fax and some
older
> stuff. What's the best choice? A channel bank or a TDM2400P card?
> Can I use a TDM2400P board together with the actual TE410P?
As far as I know, Digium doesn't support FAX through TDM2400P, even
less a modem call.
I had to take one analog line out of my huntgroup and reserve it for
modem calls since I could not make it work using the TDM2400P. Note
that I was going from an FXS to an FXO.

I've read that using a PRI and a good channel bank should work.

hth

On 5/26/06, Mimmus <dviggiani@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> during gradual migration to Asterisk, I put Asterisk in front of a legacy
> Alcatel PBX:
>   PRI PSTN <--> Asterisk <--> E1 cable <--> Alcatel PBX
>
> After successful deployment of VoIP phones, it's time to drop Alcatel
PBX!
> I'd like to keep some of analog lines to support modem, fax and some
older
> stuff. What's the best choice? A channel bank or a TDM2400P card?
> Can I use a TDM2400P board together with the actual TE410P?
I've had very good results at one of my clients' locations using the
following setup:

PRI <--> Asterisk w/Digium TE406P <--> Adtran channel bank
<--> Fax machine

Assuming you have a spare span on your E1 card, it's probably worth it
to get a channel bank with 24 FXS ports and put it in your wiring
closet.  Even if you don't use all the ports now, you'll be a simple
cross-connect away from adding an analog station if and when it's
needed in the future.

-- 
Strom Carlson
http://www.stromcarlson.com/

Hi,

I know that this is not the right place, but I?m not aware of any alternative.
I have some VOIP equipments I would like to trade-up

Digium IAXyS101i
Used for 2 days
VoipSupply page:  http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=772
VoipSupply Price: $90

Linksys WBP54G 802.11G WIFI Dongle
Never Used
VoipSupply page:  http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1094
VoipSupply Price: $45

D-Link DI-102 VOIP QOS Adaptor Packet Prioritizer
Never Used
VoipSupply page:  http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1168
VoipSupply Price: $80

I would like to trade the three of them with
Linksys SPA-942 SIP Phone Dual RJ45, PoE, Inc. AC P/S
VoipSupply page:  http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1334
VoipSupply Price: $190

If interested, kindly email me off the list
samyantoun@yahoo.com

Thanks


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