<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>it also depends on the total amount of ports and what those <span>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><span name="x"></span>---<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)<br><span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"chris" <tknchris@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@geeks.org><br><b>Cc: </b>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<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 <merlyn@geeks.org> 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>> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br></div></body></html>