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[blu] Re: Asterisk Hardware



Thanks for the recommendation I'll look into those phones.  I
basically want to split the 1 line we have to 6 phones spred out in
our workspace, be able to do talk to other people in the workspace and
in that off chance we actually decide to use a landline be able to do
it from our desk =).  

-miah

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Ben Jackson wrote:
> I too was in that boat, but then I picked up a bunch of older Cisco VoIP
> phones for short money. It was cheaper then buying the FXS cards, plus,
> Ethernet was already strung around the house.
> 
> There are a lot of Cisco 12SP/30VIP phones out there, and they have decent
> support in *. I recommend them.
> 
> The Dev kit is calling out to me though, but the price is still quite
> prohibitive.
> 
> 				~Ben
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, miah wrote:
> 
> > I've been interested in this for a while, but the hardware that I'd
> > need (support 6 lines) would cost me atleast $400.  They do have a
> > developers hardware kit up now for the low low price of $195.  If the
> > hardware were cheaper I'd be all over this..
> >
> > -miah
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:13:29PM -0500, Samuel Donham wrote:
> > > Has anyone installed Asterisk yet?  I know we were supposed to have a
> > > speaker a few months ago, but he had to cancel last minute, and I have a
> > > few questions regarding the hardware.  I'd like to set up a small test
> > > system/PBX and was looking at the Wildcard X100P (since it's the cheapest
> > > single FXO).
> > > Has anyone used this card and is it sufficient enough for a single
> > > connection to my analog POTS line?
> > > I would also like to set up a SIP proxy using Asterisk and I'm assuming I
> > > can just use standard ethernet NICs to do so?
> > > Thoughts?  Suggestions?
> > > Thanks to anyone that has done this before,
> > > -Sam
> > >
> > >
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