[VoIP] Cards for Asterisk

[David Josephson]

> Jayson Smith wrote:
>   
>> I've sort of decided to try playing around with actual boards in my Asterisk
>> system, for hooking up phones. I don't want to put a ton of money into this.
>> What's a good, cheap, card that would let me hook up a few phones?
>>     
As Russ mentioned, there are no cheap FXS cards. The X100P FXO cards are 
cheap only because they are really Intel voice modem boards and have 
nothing to do with Digium or Asterisk (except that someone figured out 
that they could be used as trunk cards). For one to four ports, the 400P 
type cards are the cheapest. Otherwise you need to spend about $3-500 
for a T-1 card and $100-200 for a channel bank.

There are plenty of inexpensive SIP ATA's that work fine, particularly 
if they are on the same subnet with the Asterisk box. voip-supply has 
Motorola VT1005's for $50, that's $25 a port and I figure that's hard to 
beat. The Sipura SPA-2000's are also reliable.