Installation : Routeur - Analog card

FreePBX Installation / Upgrade
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Hi everybody

Here’s a sketch showing the network:
(http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/schmas2.jpg/)
I want to install in my small office.
I haven’t any internet connection cause we are in countryside.

My questions:
1)Do i need a routeur ?
Or the sip phones and the switch can match alone.

  1. Can a pap2t, match for this network, or do i need a sangoma or a digium card (1fxs 1fxo) ? What’s the difference between them.

Thanks&Regards

Matt

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  1. The PAP2 won’t work. It is an FXS device, you’ll need an FXO.
  2. If you’re not connecting to an outside network, you won’t need a router.
  3. Stay away from Trixbox, that distro is old and unsupported. Use the FreePBX or PIAF distro instead.
  4. You show an analog phone connected to the PAP2. Do you mean it to serve as an extension of the VOIP system or are you simply bridging it across the POTS line. If you’re you’re bridging you won’t need the FXS port.
  5. As far as the difference in Sangoma and Digium go. I’d say it’s a matter of preference. I use both in various systems, but I have a slight preference for Sangoma.
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Allright if I replace the pap2t by a tdm11b for example ?
http://www.digiumcards.com/tdm11b.html

I will use freepbx distro then, a Pentium 3 matches for it ?
Or what (cheap) computer do you advice me to buy otherwise…

Thx a lot, regards

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Actually, i want to have my analog phone bridged to the pstn, and that it also belong to the network and can call the sip phones.

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For a system as small as yours, about any entry level computer will do.

If you bridge the analog phone directly across the incoming POTS line, you won’t be able to use it to make calls to or from the system, in fact the system won’t even know it is there. It will ring whenever an incoming call comes in, and you could listen to any calls on it.

A configuration like this would be used to provide at least some incoming/outgoing capability in the event of a failure of the asterisk system for some reason.

If you want the analog phone to be part of the system you’ll have to use the pap2.

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For a system as small as yours, about any entry level computer will do.

If you bridge the analog phone directly across the incoming POTS line, you won’t be able to use it to make calls to or from the system, in fact the system won’t even know it is there. It will ring whenever an incoming call comes in, and you could listen to any calls on it.

A configuration like this would be used to provide at least some incoming/outgoing capability in the event of a failure of the asterisk system for some reason.

If you want the analog phone to be part of the system you’ll have to use the pap2.

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Ok, so in this case the configuration of my picture is allright ?

Do i need to add an ATA in the computer and if yes can these devices fit :
tdm11b
http://www.digiumcards.com/tdm11b.html

thanks, if i had several confirmation it would be great.