[ale] Asterisk Success

[Greg Freemyer]

On 1/2/06, cfowler at outpostsentinel.com <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On 1/1/06, cfowler at outpostsentinel.com <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:56:15AM -0500, Tony Carter wrote:
> > > > I have several clients using Asterisk with much success. I don't understand
> > > > what your intended use is, can you explain.
> > >
> > > My intended use is to accept one T1 line from the telco and have
> > > the equivalent analog lines going to modems.  That means I will need
> > > at least 24 FX0 ports on that PC.  I intend to only use a handful of ATA adapaters.  I will not be dealing with a bunch of handsets attached to the PBX via VOIP.  This will be all analog connections to the PBX and then out the T1 line.
> > >
> > > My understanding with the hardware available is that you can't have 24 FXO ports on a PC because you may not have enough PCI slots.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like your describing a Channel Bank.
> >
> > Have you looked into just buying one.  Looks like their are several on eBay.
>
> I've thought about it but I need to be able to pool the modems on demand to single phone
> numbers.  I also plan to use the SIP support for a few handsets.
>

Inbound pooling is normally done at the phone company end.

How does a PBX help with that?

BTW: What baud rate are you shooting for?

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
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