[K12OSN] phone system

[Huck]

66-block of phone pairs? or 66 unique ip's?
digium makes a card that handles 24 pair of POTS line..
and full T1's...etc..

fonality's system, it turnkey...the only advantage I see...
you can get a much beefier server with you'll need for more than 5 
clients(their base $999 system is good for about 5 concurrent)...
like I said in the earlier post...Asterisk at Home is a simple 
solution..and you can customize it from there...the web interface makes 
configuration of trunks/extensions and all that jazz very easy..

--Huck

Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> I have a 66-block coming into a new extension campus. What kind of card
> would I need to receive that sort of traffic since they aren't broken up
> into physically separate lines? I could pay them extra to break it down,
> but it seems rather silly to do so.
> 
> I agree that fonality, while having a nice system, seems awfully
> expensive as you add more and more to the quote. I was thinking about
> just pushing this out to a contractor, but I'm kinda interested in VoIP
> and this small size might be a good start.
> 
> Thanks,
> JSR/
> 
> Josiah S. Ritchie
> System and Database Administrator
> P: 301-552-1400 ext 1241 | F: 301-552-2775
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>> Behalf Of Huck
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:28 AM
>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] phone system
>>
>> Fonality has a nice easy solution...although they rape you on the
>> server...$1k for the hardware they provide..blah..but their product
>> really is nice...and comes with support if you purchase...
>>
>> They've taken Asterisk and put together a nice interface and they
> handle
>> all updates on the server if you purchase the support from them.
>>
>> Setting up Asterisk yourself is not rocket science by any
>> means...Asterisk at Home actually is a fairly simple solution for
>> VOIP...and you can use desktops with a free application as the
>> phone...with just a headset/mic combo deal. Or get a SIP phone that
>> bridges the network connection through the phone...but you'll want to
>> put QoS on your network so VoiP traffice has priority.
>>
>> --Huck
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