I am fairly new to Asterisk but have searched around a bit.
We have an account with www.concerotalk.com and are using a router which hooks up to 2 normal phones. At the moment, we allow our customers to use these two phones and charge them using a tariff code excel sheet.
Now, we are seeing that demand for this is picking up and so we would like to setup say, 4 phones (expandable) that could use Asterisk and a calling card system. All outgoing calls would go through the router from concerotalk.com but local calls will go through a local landline.
Can someone advise, which hardware from digium I need to use for this to work with Asterisk?
2 landlines - FXO
1 VOIP / to connect to ETH0? - I am not sure about this. But what I mean here is that the router from concerotalk will connect to this.
4 SIP phones. Is this expandable? We’d like to add more lines for office use.
I now understand that if these are analogue phones, I might need to get a card with more ports?
2 landlines - FXO
1 VOIP / to connect to ETH0? - I am not sure about this. But what I mean here is that the router from concerotalk will connect to this.
4 SIP phones. Is this expandable? We’d like to add more lines for office use.
I now understand that if these are analogue phones, I might need to get a card with more ports?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Karotu[/quote]
The number of SIP phones isn’t dictated by any specific hardware interfaces. The VoIP connection occurs across your regular ethernet interface.
For the FXO’s, Digium builds a 4-port modular analog interface card, the TDM410, that accepts an FXS or FXO modules into each of its four slots (populate as few / many as you like).
So technically, if I leave out the landlines, I could just use Asterisk and the SIP phones with the calling card software? No digium card required?
Regards,
Karotu
[quote=“malcolmd”][quote=“karotu”]Hi Malcolmd,
2 landlines - FXO
1 VOIP / to connect to ETH0? - I am not sure about this. But what I mean here is that the router from concerotalk will connect to this.
4 SIP phones. Is this expandable? We’d like to add more lines for office use.
I now understand that if these are analogue phones, I might need to get a card with more ports?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Karotu[/quote]
The number of SIP phones isn’t dictated by any specific hardware interfaces. The VoIP connection occurs across your regular ethernet interface.
For the FXO’s, Digium builds a 4-port modular analog interface card, the TDM410, that accepts an FXS or FXO modules into each of its four slots (populate as few / many as you like).