[cisco-voip] Big analog gateway?

[Ed Leatherman]

I second what Lelio said, I use 2 of these in H.323 mode at our
football stadium for emergency phones, ring-downs, operational
communication, etc, a long as they have power they work just fine for
what is necessary.


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> VG224s are still the cheapest $/port solution out there.
>
> If you have CallManager anyways, then you can simply tie them into that
> configuration. If you don't want to do that, you can go H323 for all ports
> and you don't need a call control mechanism I believe. Although it will be
> quite a few dial peers.
>
> If you need PSTN access, then a small 2901 should do the trick. It can act
> as the gatekeeper as well I believe.
>
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: "Matthew Saskin" <msaskin at gmail.com>
> To: "Wesley Schochet" <Wesley.Schochet at childrensmn.org>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 2:56:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Big analog gateway?
>
> Both audiocodes and quintum make fairly inexpensive devices to do larger
> scale analog to IP conversion.  On the cisco front, you can get pretty good
> FXS density with the EVM-HD module in an ISR/ISR G2 - should be 24 ports per
> EVM-HD module and you can put two into a 3845 as an example.  May not be the
> cheapest way to get ~50 analog ports however.
>
> Matthew Saskin
> msaskin at gmail.com
> 203-253-9571
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Wesley Schochet
> <Wesley.Schochet at childrensmn.org> wrote:
>>
>> OK folks, in my hospitals, I have about 50 emergency phones, one for each
>> department.  We are still primarily Avaya (I'm working on that), but I have
>> a CUCM 8 cluster to service my fleet of 7925 wifi phones.  When you upgrade
>> the Avaya, you have about 15 minutes of downtime while it reboots (yes,
>> really and yes, this is current software).
>>
>> The emergency phones are used for these planned outages and as a backup
>> for unplanned outages.  Right now all of them are 1FBs from the telco
>> (seemed like a good idea 15 years ago!).  Needless to say, this is dough we
>> could be saving!
>>
>> How do I service 50 analog phones in a relatively inexpensive way?   Why
>> is the vg248 gone when I need it?  Anyone have a decent large scale analog
>> sip gateway?
>>
>> Or, do I convert them all to like 6901 or 6911s?  That ends up in the
>> $150-200 range for the set and the DLU - plus a switch port if it's the
>> 6901.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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