Are there any Analog Telephone Adapter interfaces that work with Routerboard hardware (as opposed to an x86 platform)? We would like to incorporate phone service into our product line (the better to compete with certain large ISPs that offer both phone and internet), but remain an all-Mikrotik shop. Does any such adapter exist?
I’ve not seen any Mikrotik specific stuff, but you could always use a 3rd party ATA and appropriate configs in your CPEs to pass traffic back to your VOIP server at the datacentre. If you need something more complex than a simple phone extension, then you’ll probably need more complex devices; these look very interesting.
Planet make some fairly cheap basic ATAs.
Our experience is based on the Grandstream ATA, with the necessary configurations on ip firewall nat on the RB (SIP and RTP ports), with much satisfaction.
Only a few minor problems with sending FAX but there are alternative systems for sending FAX without ATA.
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I would say an ATA adapter and software module could be done pretty cheaply if MT wanted to put some development behind it. Use something like the magic jack hardware and plug into internal usb port. Need more ports, use a USB channel bank. In this case. I would assume MT would need a whole team for this product fork to make it widely utilized.
IMO, ATA functionality cannot be implemented easily without a good deal of work. I would suggest Obihai or Grandstream devices and just use tftp/ftp/http provisioning to manage the devices for your customers.