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Analog Telephone Adapters

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Important notice to product manufactures, resellers and other people adding to this page



ALPHABETICAL ORDER PLEASE


Analogue Terminal Adapters (ATAs)

Please make sure you put entries into the correct category.
This Wiki is frequently visited by newbies who have never before done anything with telephony. Entries in the wrong category can lead to confusion. So, please refrain from marketing tricks getting your product listed as many times as possible. If some newbie buys your stuff only to find out it doesn't work the way it was expected and it won't work with his hardware or operating system it can only do harm. Adapters with an ethernet port go into category "FXS to Ethernet". Adapters with a USB connector go into category "FXS to USB". Further, in order to maintain fairness between all vendors and manufacturers do not use boldface or larger font to make your entry stand out and use only a single line for each product. If you want to provide a description longer than a single line, create a new Wiki page for your entry and point the entry to that Wiki. For more information on how to create a new Wiki page see How to add information to this Wiki. If you're just rebranding some else's ATA, please post somewhere else. Your cooperation is very much appreciated.

Analogue Phone to Ethernet gateways (FXS only - for devices with FXO ports see: VoIP Gateways)

The most common analogue terminal adapter is a device with at least one telephone jack (FXS port) used to connect a conventional telephone and an ethernet jack used to connect the adapter to the LAN. Using such an ATA it is possible to connect a conventional telephone to a remote VoIP server. The ATA communicates with the remote VoIP server using a VoIP protocol such as H.323, SIP, MGCP or IAX and encodes and decodes the voice signal using a voice codec such as ulaw, alaw, gsm, ILBC and others. Since ATAs communicate directly with a VoIP server, they do not require any software to be run on a personal computer, such as a softphone.


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