[TriLUG] Asterisk Phones

[Ken Mink]

A couple of years ago I replaced my then employer's old analog PBX
with an asterisk system. We bought about a dozen Polycom IP500 phones.
They were in the $175 per neighborhood. We had 4 POTS lines. We used a
Digium TDM400 with 4 FXO modules. For the server part, I just recycled
a Dual 1GHz Xeon machine we had. I did not segment the VOIP traffic on
the network. We only 5 employees, so the number of calls was limited.
This setup worked out really well. I do have give credit where credit
is due, Jon Carnes answered a lot questions for me while I was working
on it.

Ken

On Dec 14, 2007 11:32 AM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
> I am currently considering asterisk for my small company (approximately 12
> extensions).  We currently have 4 analog phone lines and an old analog
> Panasonic PBX that the hard disk died in.  My question is if I create a
> asterisk system, where can I get some inexpensive IP Phones from that will
> work with asterisk.  I know little about asterisk and phone systems in
> general, my background is really in DSP and embedded systems and I have
> avoided learning about phone systems so far.
>
> If someone here does it professionally then let me know, as I really would
> rather put my efforts into the business rather than creating an asterisk
> based system from scratch.  The current person who does our phone system is
> not really competent, obnoxious, and over-charges.
>
> But my main question is where can I get cheap IP phones for my office?
> Thanks!
>
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> Brian Phelps
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