Talk:Analog telephone adapter
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Name[edit]
Why does this article call it an analog telephony adapter? All of the products that the article mentions/depicts as examples are named analog *telephone* adapters by their manufacturers. I have never heard it called a telephony adapter before, and suggest that this article be renamed unless it can be demonstrated that telephony adapter is a more common name. --Miken2005 08:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Not just phones and not just VoIP[edit]
ATAs are not just used to connect telephones. Fax machines, answering machines, modems, etc. are equally usable. The ATA is also not a VoIP-specific box. ATAs have been used for some time to connect fax machines and other POTS devices to PBX/key systems that otherwise only allow proprietary sets to be used, or to ISDN lines or Centrex service. Thus, claiming that an ATA is a box to connect phones to VoIP is only true in certain, recent cases, and so this article needs a lot of rework there. --Miken2005 08:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)