Church Setup

Reid Cooper

Look at Yealink and Snom for phones today and potentially Ubiquiti in a month or so.

are they just not wanting to buy new hardware(phones?) because good ATAs are expensive. Skip grandstream, I have had good luck with Audiocodes, but they're a PITA to configure. Are you talking about a fxs gateway type device? I wouldn't just put an ata at each phone especially if they have a buncha phones

I'm talking about an ATA for incoming lines, not to replace IP Phones. I think that is possible. They still want to use their cooper phone lines coming into the building instead of a SIP trunk.

scottalanmiller

What you want is a PSTN to SIP gateway.

JaredBusch

An ATA is an FXS device. You need FXO to do POTS to FreePBX.

Not at a spot to search ATM, but that should get you on the right track on Google.

Carnival Boy

@JaredBusch said:

An ATA is an FXS device. You need FXO to do POTS to FreePBX

I have absolutely no idea what that means, but I just want to say it's a fantastic IT acronym sentence!

PSX_Defector

@Carnival-Boy said:

@JaredBusch said:

An ATA is an FXS device. You need FXO to do POTS to FreePBX

I have absolutely no idea what that means, but I just want to say it's a fantastic IT acronym sentence!

FXS means station, think actual phone to pick up. FXO means office, as in Central Office, which connects to an incoming POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) line.

You need something to take an incoming line and turn it into a SIP trunk for FreePBX to run against.

http://www.multitech.com/brands/multivoip#gsc.tab=0

That's assuming that's a straight up single POTS line. If they already have a system in place, e.g. key system or ISDN PRI, then processes change. A key system is an old school method of creating a PBX without all the fun of PBX systems. Soft PBXes emulate key systems well, but have a bit of a challenge with routing and such. Using a PRI means they have a full blown PBX, and wouldn't quickly translate over to using any soft PBX out there.

What do they got, and what do they need. Churches are notoriously bad at explaining that.

JaredBusch

@Carnival-Boy said:

I have absolutely no idea what that means, but I just want to say it's a fantastic IT acronym sentence!

I assumed you would take those to google.

JaredBusch

@PSX_Defector did it for you.

Carnival Boy

It wasn't a criticism or anything, I genuinely thought it sounded cool.

I still dont know what you have and what you want to do.