[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Benjamin Kowarsch via List]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:50 AM, brody bernardi via List wrote:

> Is there no PCI card that could have say 4 phone jacks for insertion
> into a Mac Pro (PowerMac) or an Xserve?

There are a variety of multi-port analog interface PCI cards from  
various vendors, but the driver software and middleware required for  
use with Asterisk/OpenPBX is generally Linux-only. I have lobbied  
quite a few vendors asking them to support MacOS X but to no avail. I  
do not expect any of those vendors to have a change of heart any time  
soon.


> We have 8 phone lines, are you suggesting that we get a USB hub and
> plug in 8 USB modems?

For eight analog phone lines I would suggest you use an eight-port  
SIP-FXO gateway.

rgds
benjk