Voice Gateway for Small Site

[JeffG1]

For an office of 10 people what would be the best Voice gateway to use?

Also what would be the best PSTN connection? A Partial PRI ?

Currently this office has 8 analog copper trunks coming into a small pbx.

With that many copper trunks I don’t think FXO cards will work…

[electro22]

hi jeff -

it depends on a few things. Are the 8 trunks currently enough, or too much? Also, what version of CM are you running? I believe with CM 3.2 and newer, it supports the new analog module for the 2600 (NM-HDA) which will support your 8 analog trunks.

see:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/routers/ps259/products_tech_note09186a0080094aba.shtml

[JeffG1]

Ok the users are saying 8 is not enough... They are wanting all 10 people to be able to dial out at one time... If that is the case what are we looking at...

[electro22]

well you could go two ways.

1) (not so good ) you could use the 2600 solution and then purchase a VG200 with some FXO ports.

2) (better option) Use the 2600 and get the NM-HDV-T1 module. This module will take in a T1 and you could do a fractional T1 if its cost effective for your situation (otherwise just purchase a full T1).

-Jaret