NewBee Question

[milindsaraswala]

I am learning asterisk and trixbox and Asterisk Now. I have normal telephone line at home. So now I need help on which digium telephony interface card will be okay to use. As I am learning not doing any commercial thing, Kindly suggest me something cheap and affordable.

[leemason]

Have a look at the OpenVox A400P01. It has one FXO port (for a phone line) and is not too expensive.

[malcolmd]

Thanks for that recommendation, Lee. Remember, sales of Openvox cards don't help develop Asterisk. They don't keep this forum running, either.

Cheers

[milindsaraswala]

Then which one is recommended

[leemason]

Thanks for that recommendation, Lee. Remember, sales of Openvox cards don't help develop Asterisk. They don't keep this forum running, either.

Cheers

Fair enough. I always try to use Digium cards myself for customers but for a home user who needs a reasonably cheap card I don't personally mind using non-Digium cards if it gets them using Asterisk.

[milindsaraswala]

Good so it will work on All like trixbox, asterisk and asterisknow right ???

[malcolmd]

Asterisk and AsteriskNOW are pretty interchangeable. A word of warning about Trixbox, there hasn't been much information about forward direction of it for a long time. You don't want to settle on something that isn't going anywhere.

[milindsaraswala]

Good, Then I will not put my mind more in Tribox thanx for suggestion.

[jspring]

Sorry to bump an old topic. I have just started to play around with Asterisk rather AsteriskNow. Are digium analogue phone cards compatible with both (probably a silly question) or just AsteriskNow?

Thanks!

[david55]

Asterisk. I suspect the reason that Asterisk was written was to support those cards.

As AsteriskNOW contains Asterisk, they will obviously work if you install Asterisk that way, as well.

[malcolmd]

Asterisk was written because we needed something to provide us with voicemail and IVR menus. The cards came later.