[Mac-telephony-list] newbie

[Francis Augusto Medeiros via List]

Thanks Benjamin!

Just one more question: does it require lots of cycles/memory of my  
system?

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Francis
On 24/12/2006, at 17:55, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:

> On Dec 25, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Francis Augusto Medeiros via List wrote:
>
>> I have a mac mini at home, and I thought it would be cool if I could
>> get a cheap interface (FXO ?) to hook my phone line into my router
>> (Linksys WRT54G) and use a mac-friendly implementation of Asterisk or
>> openpbx to handle this - or, as I have a DSL, maybe I should rely on
>> a solution like pbxes.com?
>
> If you want your POTS line to be available from a SIP phone, you will
> need some sort of FXO interface. You could use a Sipura SPA-3000 for
> that, it has both an FXO and an FXS port.
>
> PSTN ---analog-line---> [SPA-3000] ---SIP---> [IP-PBX] ---> [phone]
>
> or even without a PBX ...
>
> PSTN ---analog-line---> [SPA-3000] ---SIP---> [SIP-phone]
>
> The benefit of a PBX in between is the ability to serve multiple
> "lines" to multiple phones/destinations and to use other services
> that the PBX provides, e.g. voicemail, conferencing, auto-attendant  
> etc.
>
> If you want to set up something right now on your Mac, you may want
> to use the Sunrise installer. If it isn't all that urgent and you can
> wait a little, there will soon be a new installer based on
> OpenPBX.org, which has better support for OSX than Asterisk.
>
> hope this helps
>
> rgds
> benjk
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