[Mac-telephony-list] Hardware Options to connect legacy to voip

[Thoth via List]

In the case of mutiple lines (4+) you might want to look into the Digium 
cards:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Digium

Digium as a company has been pretty intrinsic to Asterisk and this huge 
telephony revolution.  Though they might seem pricey.  Linksys bought Sipura 
out, and now they make the SPA-2000 (2 FXS ports) and the SPA-3xxx (1FXS + 1 
FXO ), which are nice as they take care of all analog-digital conversions, 
and just SIP directly into a Asterisk/PBX (no USB required as it is all 
through ethernet, and you can place the different SPA boxes in different 
locations)

As regards to the issue of $49 for a usb dongle, I went ahead and spent a 
little bit more for a SPA-3102 so I could have a FXS port as well.  It just 
seems a shame that all these old modems are now labeled not-voice capable.  
When I know darn well they used to be used on the classic mac os as 
voice/fax/answering machines.  This was an advertising point for apple during 
the performa era.  Remember the newton?  It also had a bit of telephony 
features as well, so I think naming 2004 as the inception of the 
voice-capable modem at apple is just about like declaring we invented the 
telephone in the early nineties to complement the soon to be booming 
internet.  Apple modems in the past have had capabilities of dealing with 
audio from the phone, and I hate to see people just throw away hardware to go 
buy more that they will throw away in five years.


Josh

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:50, 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?
> We have 8 phone lines, are you suggesting that we get a USB hub and
> plug in 8 USB modems?
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Thoth via List wrote:
> >> Any hope for older non-usb hardware,  I can guess that the global
> >> village
> >> serial modem hooked to my beige G3 will never be supported.  But
> >> how about
> >> the built-in modem on a first genereation G4 powermac?
> >
> > You have to have a voice capable modem. The first voice capable modem
> > Apple used was the Motorola SM56 which started to appear in late 2004
> > or early 2005. You can check the type of modem you have with System
> > Profiler. If it doesn't say "Motorola SM56", then you are out of
> > luck. Then again, what's the issue with spending 49 USD for the
> > dongle modem? It's a very small device, it won't be in the way. Note,
> > the dongle modem is also a Motorola SM56.
> >
> > rgds
> > benjk
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