We have an application for Asterisk that will require connecting 144 fax ports into the system. Faxes will route externally over a PRI. The 144 ports are for local fax machines within the building. Not all will be faxing simultaneously. We just need to be able to provide ports in the building to plug in lots of fax machines. The plan is to run an Asterisk server for about 100 phones and these fax ports. The big question is what's the best way to connect these fax ports to *? 1) We could use an 8-port T1 card and link 6 Rhino FXS channel banks. 2) We could put 6 MultiTech MultiVOIP FX-24 boxes on the * LAN. 3) or ??? Anyone do something like this before? Any suggestions? I personally like the simplcity of the MultiVOIP boxes, plus the fact that they don't require T1 ports.
stay away from foip stick with channel banks On 12/21/06, Allen Casteran <allen@nisinc.com> wrote:> We have an application for Asterisk that will require connecting 144 fax > ports into the system. Faxes will route externally over a PRI. The 144 > ports are for local fax machines within the building. Not all will be > faxing simultaneously. We just need to be able to provide ports in the > building to plug in lots of fax machines. > > The plan is to run an Asterisk server for about 100 phones and these fax > ports. > > The big question is what's the best way to connect these fax ports to *? > > 1) We could use an 8-port T1 card and link 6 Rhino FXS channel banks. > > 2) We could put 6 MultiTech MultiVOIP FX-24 boxes on the * LAN. > > 3) or ??? > > Anyone do something like this before? > Any suggestions? > > I personally like the simplcity of the MultiVOIP boxes, plus the fact > that they don't require T1 ports. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Have a look at www.spidermux.org Zoa Allen Casteran wrote:> We have an application for Asterisk that will require connecting 144 > fax ports into the system. Faxes will route externally over a PRI. The > 144 ports are for local fax machines within the building. Not all will > be faxing simultaneously. We just need to be able to provide ports in > the building to plug in lots of fax machines. > > The plan is to run an Asterisk server for about 100 phones and these > fax ports. > > The big question is what's the best way to connect these fax ports to *? > > 1) We could use an 8-port T1 card and link 6 Rhino FXS channel banks. > > 2) We could put 6 MultiTech MultiVOIP FX-24 boxes on the * LAN. > > 3) or ??? > > Anyone do something like this before? > Any suggestions? > > I personally like the simplcity of the MultiVOIP boxes, plus the fact > that they don't require T1 ports. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users