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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The problem was around the 3<sup>rd</sup> party DSP chipset/firmware. It wasn’t the same quality as the VG224.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nate VanMaren<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 07, 2012 3:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> chris<br><b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lelio Fulgenzi<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 07, 2012 12:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> chris<br><b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<br><br>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it. <br> - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>"chris" <<a href="mailto:tknchris@gmail.com">tknchris@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Doug McIntyre" <<a href="mailto:merlyn@geeks.org">merlyn@geeks.org</a>><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 7 October, 2012 1:17:03 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [cisco-voip] Cheap Platform for High Density FXS?<br><br>I'm not totally against 2 boxes but I was liking having it builtin to<br>the router for consolidation on the 2600 I can use the fe or wic slots<br>for wan connectivity along side the voice connectivity. Not every site<br>has T1 so a channel bank is to inflexible. Looking at the VG224, that<br>doesnt look bad, looks like a IAD for the most part, dual fe is nice<br>too.<br><br>On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Doug McIntyre <<a href="mailto:merlyn@geeks.org">merlyn@geeks.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:55:27AM -0400, chris wrote:<br>>> I am looking for any advice on a cheap platform to connect high<br>>> amounts of FXS. The solution thats worked for me thus far has been<br>>> 2600xm with nm-hda and the em-8fxs expansion gets me up to 12 fxs..<br>><br>> Do you need single box? Or how about two boxen?<br>><br>> FXS channel bank into T1 into a T1 voice-card.<br>><br>> Well, at least channel banks used to be fairly cheap used. I don't see<br>> too many on eBay right now.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> cisco-voip mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>> <a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><span style='color:white'>itevomcid</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>