[cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?

[Nate VanMaren]

VG248 is still my favorite device.  It was easy to configure, use, and monitor.  Too bad the guys who made it quit Cisco and it stopped getting software updates.

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 12:27 PM
To: chris
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?

it also depends on the total amount of ports and what those ports are. VG224 are only regular on-premise loops. the routers allow for OPX-lite ports. and of course, uplink ports cost money too. if you have a local switch with plenty of uplink ports, and come up with a good way to manage your devices, then multiple vg224s might be your best bet.

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From: "chris" <tknchris at gmail.com<mailto:tknchris at gmail.com>>
To: "Doug McIntyre" <merlyn at geeks.org<mailto:merlyn at geeks.org>>
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Sunday, 7 October, 2012 1:17:03 PM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?

I'm not totally against 2 boxes but I was liking having it builtin to
the router for consolidation on the 2600 I can use the fe or wic slots
for wan connectivity along side the voice connectivity. Not every site
has T1 so a channel bank is to inflexible. Looking at the VG224, that
doesnt look bad, looks like a IAD for the most part, dual fe is nice
too.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org<mailto:merlyn at geeks.org>> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:55:27AM -0400, chris wrote:
>> I am looking for any advice on a cheap platform to connect high
>> amounts of FXS. The solution thats worked for me thus far has been
>> 2600xm with nm-hda and the em-8fxs expansion gets me up to 12 fxs..
>
> Do you need single box? Or how about two boxen?
>
> FXS channel bank into T1 into a T1 voice-card.
>
> Well, at least channel banks used to be fairly cheap used. I don't see
> too many on eBay right now.
>
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