1) If you have an ethernet network in place couldn't you just steal a pair? 2) Why bother with converting POTs ->IP -> POTS? Just get rid of the pots line and replace it with a VOIP line.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:37 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > Good cordless phone. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 3, 2022, at 6:09 PM, Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote: > > > Don't touch this. It'll be a support disaster and waste of your time. Have > them contact the telco to run a new cable on the outside or bury it to that > restaurant. Whatever doesn't involve you. > > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 1:00 PM Daniel White <dwh...@atheral.com> wrote: > >> I've not personally done this, but I'd be a Grandstream HT801 for the FXS >> port and a Grandstream HT813 for the FXO port would work. >> >> This document outlines the config - >> https://www.grandstream.com/hubfs/Product_Documentation/Peering_HT8XX_with_HT813.pdf?hsLang=en >> >> [image: photograph] >> Daniel White >> Co-Founder >> phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 >> direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 >> >> Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> >> March 3, 2022 at 11:06 >> I have done it with FXS to FXO ATAs. >> >> *From:* dmmoff...@gmail.com >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 3, 2022 10:55 AM >> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] POTS line over IP network? >> >> >> Yeah. The Linksys/Sipura SPA equipment could do that. You’d get a >> device with the FXO port on one end (I think SPA3000) and then an ATA at >> the other end. >> >> I don’t think that feature set survived the transition to Cisco…..I’m >> afraid I don’t know the modern equivalent. >> >> >> >> Adtran Total Access can do that too, but that’s an expensive solution for >> a gift shop. >> >> >> >> Asterisk boxes with an FXO card on one end and FXS card on the other…..a >> little creativity with the dialplan and you’re off to the races. That >> might be cheap enough, but this may not be practical for everyone. I’m >> pretty certain it would work, it would just burn a lot of your time. >> >> >> >> I’d hope somebody here knows the current good/cheap option, but I’m >> afraid I don’t. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On >> Behalf Of *Craig Baird >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 03, 2022 12:48 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] POTS line over IP network? >> >> >> >> Is anyone aware of a device that will take a POTS line from the telco, >> convert it to IP, and then somewhere on the network convert it back into a >> normal analog POTs line to plug into an analog handset? >> >> >> >> Basically, I have a customer who owns a gift shop. They have a restaurant >> in a separate building behind the gift shop. Currently, they have a POTS >> line that is strung from the demarc, and across the ceiling of the gift >> shop. At the rear, it exits the gift shop and makes its way into the >> restaurant where it eventually plugs into a phone. They want to get rid of >> the wire that runs across the ceiling because it looks crazy stupid. >> Unfortunately, there's a reason the wire was originally run that way--there >> isn't really another way to get it to the restaurant without tearing a >> bunch of stuff apart (lack of attic and crawlspace). However, I do have an >> ethernet network in place between the two buildings, and can relatively >> easily get a wire from the demarc to a network switch. >> >> >> >> So, what I'm envisioning is a pair of boxes. One of the boxes plugs into >> Ethernet has an FXS port to plug in the POTS line. The other box, also >> plugs into Ethernet and has an FXO port to plug in the phone. They see each >> other over the IP network, and magically transport the POTS line to where >> it needs to be. >> >> >> >> Do such devices exist? >> >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> dmmoff...@gmail.com >> March 3, 2022 at 10:55 >> >> Yeah. The Linksys/Sipura SPA equipment could do that. You’d get a >> device with the FXO port on one end (I think SPA3000) and then an ATA at >> the other end. >> >> I don’t think that feature set survived the transition to Cisco…..I’m >> afraid I don’t know the modern equivalent. >> >> >> >> Adtran Total Access can do that too, but that’s an expensive solution for >> a gift shop. >> >> >> >> Asterisk boxes with an FXO card on one end and FXS card on the other…..a >> little creativity with the dialplan and you’re off to the races. That >> might be cheap enough, but this may not be practical for everyone. I’m >> pretty certain it would work, it would just burn a lot of your time. >> >> >> >> I’d hope somebody here knows the current good/cheap option, but I’m >> afraid I don’t. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On >> Behalf Of *Craig Baird >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 03, 2022 12:48 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] POTS line over IP network? >> >> >> >> Is anyone aware of a device that will take a POTS line from the telco, >> convert it to IP, and then somewhere on the network convert it back into a >> normal analog POTs line to plug into an analog handset? >> >> >> >> Basically, I have a customer who owns a gift shop. They have a restaurant >> in a separate building behind the gift shop. Currently, they have a POTS >> line that is strung from the demarc, and across the ceiling of the gift >> shop. At the rear, it exits the gift shop and makes its way into the >> restaurant where it eventually plugs into a phone. They want to get rid of >> the wire that runs across the ceiling because it looks crazy stupid. >> Unfortunately, there's a reason the wire was originally run that way--there >> isn't really another way to get it to the restaurant without tearing a >> bunch of stuff apart (lack of attic and crawlspace). However, I do have an >> ethernet network in place between the two buildings, and can relatively >> easily get a wire from the demarc to a network switch. >> >> >> >> So, what I'm envisioning is a pair of boxes. One of the boxes plugs into >> Ethernet has an FXS port to plug in the POTS line. The other box, also >> plugs into Ethernet and has an FXO port to plug in the phone. They see each >> other over the IP network, and magically transport the POTS line to where >> it needs to be. >> >> >> >> Do such devices exist? >> >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> >> Craig Baird <cr...@xpressweb.com> >> March 3, 2022 at 10:47 >> Is anyone aware of a device that will take a POTS line from the telco, >> convert it to IP, and then somewhere on the network convert it back into a >> normal analog POTs line to plug into an analog handset? >> >> Basically, I have a customer who owns a gift shop. They have a restaurant >> in a separate building behind the gift shop. Currently, they have a POTS >> line that is strung from the demarc, and across the ceiling of the gift >> shop. At the rear, it exits the gift shop and makes its way into the >> restaurant where it eventually plugs into a phone. They want to get rid of >> the wire that runs across the ceiling because it looks crazy stupid. >> Unfortunately, there's a reason the wire was originally run that way--there >> isn't really another way to get it to the restaurant without tearing a >> bunch of stuff apart (lack of attic and crawlspace). However, I do have an >> ethernet network in place between the two buildings, and can relatively >> easily get a wire from the demarc to a network switch. >> >> So, what I'm envisioning is a pair of boxes. One of the boxes plugs into >> Ethernet has an FXS port to plug in the POTS line. The other box, also >> plugs into Ethernet and has an FXO port to plug in the phone. They see each >> other over the IP network, and magically transport the POTS line to where >> it needs to be. >> >> Do such devices exist? >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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