Re: Asterisk PSTN interface

[Nick Shore <nick.shore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Balharrie wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> I have started playing around with Asterisk@Home and now want to try
> connecting it my phone line along with some Dect phones to Asterisk.
What
> hardware do you recommend I use? Looking in the archive some of you
have had
> problems with using PCI card interfaces due to line quality or causing
a
> fault on the line. The Sipura SPA-3000 box seems expensive compared to
how
> much some of the cards can be picked up for.  If I did go down the
route of
> using a Sipura SPA-3000 would I need two, one for the line coming in
and
> another to connect my dect phones or is there a better option?

The SPA-3000 provides an FXO interface to plug into your phone line and
an FXS interface into which you canb plug your DECT basestation.

These 2 interfaces are seen as 2 seperate endpoints by Asterisk.

Inbound PSTN calls can go to * for onward routing, to any registered
extension including the DECT phones.

So if you have 1 PSTN line and one DECT basestation you only need 1
SPA-3000.

Hope that helps

Nick.