asterisk users - Feb 2007 - asterisk server as a voicemail server for legacy PBX -- FXO or FXS???

Hey All, 

 

I'll be configuring an asterisk box to be the voicemail server to an old
Merlin system which had an octel 100 voicemail server that is now dying.


My question is simple: do I need to stick an FXO card in the asterisk
box? My logic is that if the Merlin Magix system is actually generating
electrical current, then I would need to have an fxo card.  Is this
correct?

 

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Will the Asterisk box be hooked up to external lines on the Merlin, or
extension lines?

External - FXS

Extension - FXO

later,

PaulH

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:03 -0500, Jeronimo Romero
wrote:
> Hey All, 
> 
>  
> 
> I?ll be configuring an asterisk box to be the voicemail server to an
> old Merlin system which had an octel 100 voicemail server that is now
> dying. 
> 
> My question is simple: do I need to stick an FXO card in the asterisk
> box? My logic is that if the Merlin Magix system is actually
> generating electrical current, then I would need to have an fxo card.
>  Is this correct?
> 
>  
> 
> 
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FXS cards generate ring (you connect a "station" to it and it rings).
 
FXO cards sink ring (they take ring from the office).
 
If the Octel needs ring (which it most likely does), you would need an FXS
card to generate ring for it to answer.  An FXO would take ring from the
vmail server, which, in context, doesn't make a lot of sense (vmail
doesn't
call the PBX, the PBX calls vmail).
 
EKG
 

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Hey All, 

 

I'll be configuring an asterisk box to be the voicemail server to an old
Merlin system which had an octel 100 voicemail server that is now dying. 

My question is simple: do I need to stick an FXO card in the asterisk box?
My logic is that if the Merlin Magix system is actually generating
electrical current, then I would need to have an fxo card.  Is this correct?

 

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