IP phone endpoint
RonR:
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:44:08 am
Hmmm... Do you mean "an ATA plus either an IP phone or an analog phone", or do you mean
"an IP phone alone or an ATA plus an analog phone"? Where would you connect an IP phone on the OBi110?
An ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) is meant to allow a regular analog telephone to be used with a SIP provider. An IP Phone is basically a telephone with an ATA as an integral part of it. Both typically connect to an Ethernet network and communicate via IP.
Either can be used as an outboard/additional telephone to an OBi.
TimDan:
Quote from: RonR on January 13, 2012, 02:11:58 am
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:44:08 am
Hmmm... Do you mean "an ATA plus either an IP phone or an analog phone", or do you mean
"an IP phone alone or an ATA plus an analog phone"? Where would you connect an IP phone on the OBi110?
An ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) is meant to allow a regular analog telephone to be used with a SIP provider. An IP Phone is basically a telephone with an ATA as an integral part of it. Both typically connect to an Ethernet network and communicate via IP.
Either can be used as an outboard/additional telephone to an OBi.
OK, I get that an IP phone is, in effect, an analog phone with a built-in ATA adapter to allow SIP communication (and possibly power) over an ethernet line. That implies an RJ45 plug at the end of the ethernete line. Where would the jack be for that plug on an Obi device?
TimDan
RonR:
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 11:32:59 am
Where would the jack be for that plug on an Obi device?
Your router should have four Ethernet ports for LAN devices. You would plug an IP phone or ATA into one of those Ethernet ports. If you've used up all four ports, you can expand with an Ethernet switch.
TimDan:
Quote from: RonR on January 13, 2012, 12:13:40 pm
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 11:32:59 am
Where would the jack be for that plug on an Obi device?
Your router should have four Ethernet ports for LAN devices. You would plug an IP phone or ATA into one of those Ethernet ports. If you've used up all four ports, you can expand with an Ethernet switch.
OK, the IP phone would connect directly to a port on the router and speak SIP with the VoIP service, and it wouldn't connect at all to the Obi device (e.g. OBi110). This would add a 2nd phone that could be used concurrently with the analog one connected to the OBi110. I'm still puzzled, though, by your previous statement:
"Connecting an IP phone or analog phone + ATA to an OBi is a means of overcoming the limitation of the OBi only supporting one single-line telephone."
TimDan
RonR:
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:43:04 pm
OK, the IP phone would connect directly to a port on the router and speak SIP with the VoIP service, and it wouldn't connect at all to the Obi device (e.g. OBi110). This would add a 2nd phone that could be used concurrently with the analog one connected to the OBi110.
That's it.
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:43:04 pm
I'm still puzzled, though, by your previous statement:
"Connecting an IP phone or analog phone + ATA to an OBi is a means of overcoming the limitation of the OBi only supporting one single-line telephone."
An OBi only has one PHONE Port jack on the back. You can only connect a single-line telephone to it.
What's the mystery? :)
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