The 7911 is an IP phone only. No way to hook up an alalog phone. However, just about any Cisco router (with the right VWic card), a VG2xx or an ATA (depending on the version of call manager) will give you an analog line.
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There wouldn't be much of a market for it. ATAs work OK, but aren't very good. The major hurdle in Cisco's offering is that cost per port of analog systems. One of my last companys I worked had a lot of FAXes so we invested in 2 VG248s (48 ports analog). If they didn't already have analog phone structured cabling, it would have been a nightmare. We used ATAs for a while but abandoned them for a the centrally managed VG248s. There really is not simple analog solution. It is what it is.
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Cisco already has. It is the ATA you mentioned before. An IP phone with an external analog jack (built-in ATA) would do it but I doubt there are too many calls for something like that. With the decline of modems and stand-alone fax machines. what else would you use it for?
How come they got rid of the ATA 188? By prividing an ethernet port on that unit you could get a IP phone, a pc and up to 2 analogue devices (fax, cordless) hanging off one cat5 point. Was a good little unit I think!
Just a hint with the VG200 series. Do you best to get them hooked into the same router, or at least the same switch ast the router, that is your gateway. If you are trying to use dial up geater than 14.4, latency can be a HUGE problem. It is easier to just string the VG200s straight to the phone gateway even if you have to use fiber. It will ensure that the analog connections are reliable.
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One other thing to mention with ATAs is that they do not do data modem translations. We run a manufacturing environment, anyway one of the older machines only has a modem, and it was broke. The OEM needed to dial into the machine but alas we have voip, so instead of running an analog phone line out there we decided to try using an ATA, it took a couple of hours until we decided to check TAC and there in big letters it explained to us that ATAs do not function with a data modem attached to them..but the FAX works great on them, go figure.
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