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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:11 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation. Reply with quote

80 rooms? I guess you and I have slightly differing opinions as to what
a "small" motel is. Smile

If you have 80 analogue channels, then you'd need 4 TDM2400P cards.
Unless your server is powered by a small nuclear reactor, you'll be
better off with either 3 E1 or 4 T1 channels banks or 2 32 port XR0008
and 1 16 port XR0006 Astribanks.

Arturo Ochoa wrote:
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Dear List,



I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to
a Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the
cable is CAT 3.



Any recommendations on what card to use?

TDM24XXP vs Channel Bank?



Regards,



Ing. Arturo Ochoa N

Electrosystems S RL

Tel. (656)-6230794



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation. Reply with quote

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:42:28PM -0600, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
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I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a
Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the cable
is CAT 3.

You might want to consider snagging an FXS channelbank off of eBay (we
use the Zhones, which work pretty well for us), and using a multi-port
T-1 card.

If this is not a business motel, you'll likely get by with 24 trunks,
so a quad-T card would support both your incoming lines and 3 channel
banks (we seem to pay about $180-240 for them, making this cost
effective), assuming "approximately 80" isn't more than 72. Smile

If that's not enough ports, then yeah, you'll probably be best served
going to a Ethernet gateway; I personally have never liked the idea of
stuffing that much FXS inside a PC chassis.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:18 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation. Reply with quote

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:47:47PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote:
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I agree with using used chan banks off of Ebay, but I would not touch a
Zhone. I had one and sold it as soon as I could. They are a real PITA to
program and don't pass caller id.

Yeah, I gather they're a bit touchy to program. We need ours all the
same way, and have a script that Matt wrote to put them there.

As for CNID, I wouldn't know; I dont need it, and therefore haven't
tried. IME, though, analog hotel phones don't have displays anyway.

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I have purchased several Adtran chan banks and have been extremely
happy with them and tech support at Adtran. Support from Adtran has
been nothing short of excellent even though they knew I calling
about used chan banks from purchased on Ebay. One note is if the
admin/craft interface has a password on it, you have to call Adtran
to reset it. There is a way to bring up a numeric challenge code
and support will tell you the response to it and you are in.

Yeah, Adtran builds good stuff. I hear decent things about the Adit's,
as well; they're certainly all pretty and modular...

Challenge/response is a nice idea for that; I hear the Adit's are a
bear to break into.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:49 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation. Reply with quote

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Arturo Ochoa"
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation.
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:42:28 -0600

Dear List,

I have a customer who owns a little Motel, and he wants to upgrade to a
Asterisk PBX. There is one analog phone per room (aprox 80), and the
cable is CAT 3.

Any recommendations on what card to use?

TDM24XXP vs Channel Bank?

Regards,

Ing. Arturo Ochoa N

Electrosystems S RL

Tel. (656)-6230794
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