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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Steph Foster wrote: > >> My curiousity re Asterisk has been piqued by some recent discussion on >> the list and elsewhere. >> >> I have a few noobish questions that perhaps some one can enlighten me >> with. >> >> I hear that in order to interface Asterisk to POTS you need some kind >> of card ? > > There are varius ways to do it. There are analogue adapters (ATA) that > connect to the incoming phone line, as well as PCI cards for your PC. I've noticed a trend for boards to have fewer PCI expansion slots. Especially those which use entirely passive cooling of the CPU and chipset. Ironically there don't appear to be that many USB connected ATAs, even though many current machines, including "netbooks", come with a generous supply of USB ports. >> What sort of cards are they and what sort of starting price bracket >> are we looking at ? > > Henry has posted some links & check the archives, but briefly for about > £60 you can get a sinel port card. Many of these are actually "winmodems", but a random winmodem is unlikely to have the appropriate driver support. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklnzLoACgkQsoRLMhsZpFdwWACglyieQcevSVrU1FWw2JFr712p 4NgAnjkZv7iq41Ze5y2tdpD6gJGwo2AU =znr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html