[UPHPU] Asterisk

[Lonnie Olson]

Ash wrote:
> To those of you running asterisk at work, what do you use for hardware?
> Did you go with the digium cards, or another brand? What about actual
> phones, etc?
> 
> My current needs are for 5 actual phones, 4 lines, 1 fax line, and
> voicemail/auto attendant. In the future, they will go up from there (in
> 1 year, 16 phones, 10 lines. In 2 years, 30 phones and 18 lines approx.)

We migrated to Asterisk from a proprietary 3com VOIP system a few months
ago.

For phone lines we started with a Digium Wildcard TE405P [1].  This
allowed us to use our two existing voice T1s.  Right now we are
migrating to a SIP provider.

For phones we use Cisco 7960 IP Phones [2].  We got a pretty good deal
on about 10 of them on eBay.  Since they were used and we didn't have a
Cisco maintenance contract getting the SIP firmware wasn't very easy.

We also have a few Linksys [3] phones that work pretty well.

We tried a few ATAs that worked pretty good with normal voice calls, but
failed miserably with dialup connections.  Hence we still need a real
analog phone line for things like dialup testing, alarm system, paging, etc.

--lonnie

1. http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/te405p.php
2. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/ps1855/index.html
3. http://tinyurl.com/zsxec