[clue-tech] Asterisk

[Mike Staver]

Thanks for the great info everybody - I'm beginning to understand much 
better now. I have 3 fax machines in the office at the current time, so 
I will definitely need one of those FXS cards. Also, this Asterisk box 
will also double as a slave DNS server running bind, so I'm sure one box 
can handle those two things. I've definitely learned a lot and I'm ready 
to download some ISO's here and get started.  I'll be using an older 
box, a Dell PowerEdge server with dual PIII Zeons in it running at 500 
MHZ, but it has RAID 5, dual power supplies, etc - so I'll feel better 
about my phone system not crashing :)

Jim Ockers wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
>> I'm 
>> assuming the channel card is for connecting directly to a T1, which I 
>> won't be doing at this point.  I will be using existing fax machines 
>> though - how can you accomplish this, with a different type of channel card?
> 
> Digium sells a FXS card (4 ports on 1 PCI card) that you can use
> to connect analog phones and fax machines to the Asterisk server.
> 
> FXS == foreign exchange STATION (station=phone, or something that needs
> a dialtone like a phone)
> 
> They also have FXO cards that you can use to connect an analog phone
> line(s) to the Asterisk server.
> 
> FXO == foreign exchange OFFICE (office=telco, or something that gives a
> dialtone like a PBX)
> 
> I've been using * for a few years as my home voicemail with a FXO card
> connected to my old Panasonic KX-T616 analog phone system.  I programmed
> * with the right key sequences to transfer calls etc. on the Panasonic.
> 
> Anyway I hope this helps,
> Jim
> 

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                                 -Mike Staver
                                  staver at fimble.com
                                  mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com

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