Hi!
This is a very stupid question for most of you but not for a new to pbx user like me.
My boss wants me to test the TDM400 (4fxo) cards he bought lately and setup an internal PBX for it just for testing. How can I do this? I have all the applications ready (trixbox). Would I need an analog phone or an SIP softphone to do this?
Sorry to bother you guys 
Thanks in advance 
either or both
and of course the PSTN phone lines to plug into the ports
With Softphones you only need the computer and headset (USB is best)
with hard pots phone you would need a ATA
Skip SIP softphones for testing use a IAX phone first (easy one is)
http://www.laser.com/dante/diax/diax.html
If you are really going to use this do not waste time or money or ATA’s
Buy real IP phones (150.00 ~ 200.00 plus a pop)
If you do not have GOOD CLEAN COPPER phone lines you will need hardware echo canceling
DO NOT use the primary PCI slot for card (do not forget the power lead)
KILL the ser / lpt ports / sound card in BIOS
HAVE FUN…SEE YA HERE
or at http://www.trixbox.org/
when u crash…
You may wish to save yourself some headache and look at doing a centos 4.4 install and freepbx and not TrixBox (plus look better to the boss)
If you really want to have it done right PAY ROB THOMAS or one of the FREEPBX folks to setup it up ($ 250.00 USD I think is going rate)
I Roll your own because it will break and if you have no idea how it works you will be hard pressed to fix it.
Trixbox is drop in a run iso it is done using RPM’s many problems with this way of doing this, this is geared towards the Home user who has no linux back ground, and when they have porblems the fix is to reload.
That is a NOT good way to run a live PBX…
Trixbox is not ready for “prime time” spend a day of two in the forum’s you will understand (not knocking Andrew’s work here just stating what I see).
I support Andrew’s work in many ways just not the path he has taking with the TrixBox build and stuffing everything under the sun into the iso install.
I would love to see a install menu to allow me to choose what I want or do not want, until then.
“Roll your own”
TrixBox is full of stuff you may never need and has MANY security holes
I am bubbapcguy on the Trixbox forum
I am here or there everyday
thanks for the help bubba
So I can connect the IP phones on the fxo cards? Do I also need fxs cards for this setup? I do not need to call outside or receive incoming call yet. It will be just used for the employees, for the meantime.
very sorry for the lame questions. I’m really new to this stuff.
thanks in advance.
nu_2trix wrote:
[quote] thanks for the help bubba
So I can connect the IP phones on the fxo cards? Do I also need fxs cards for this setup? I do not need to call outside or receive incoming call yet. It will be just used for the employees, for the meantime.
very sorry for the lame questions. I’m really new to this stuff.
thanks in advance.
[/quote]Nu,
There’s a lot of help on Digiums site you should read first. Also I have
an Asterisk@Home presentation given at the Philadelphia Linux Users
group available here:
http://4aero.com/static/talks/PLUG_20060301/
However, if your TDM400 has FXO cards ( red ) those are for connections
to the central office. The FXS (green) cards are for connections to
local analog
POTS phones.
So if you have (4) FSX cards, you can only connect this to 4 trunk
lines, and you
have no way of running local analog phones. If you need to run analog
phones
you would need FXS cards.
The TDM400 only has 4 slots, and you may not have much luck running (2)
TDM 400 cards in the same machine - so you will either have to remove
FXO cards and replace them with FXS, or use SIP phones.
The SIP phones connect to your local Ethernet switch.
You can also buy one IAXY’s from Digium for each analog phone, or
buy Analog Terminal Adapters ( ATA’s ) from other vendors to do the
same thing.
If you buy SIP phones, beware that some of the really cheep phones don’t
have good audio ( while others do ) so do research before buying.
If you don’t have experience it could easily take you several hundred hours
to figure out echo cancellation, QoS, and other issues to get acceptable
audio. So you may seriously want to get a consultant to lead you through
this.
Lee Marzke
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thanks guys. a big help. i’ll take bubba’s suggestion to use freepbx only.
nice article Lee Marzke. great help in understanding this.