Businesses and ITSPs have long-needed an inexpensive way to connect legacy analog devices to a VoIP network, and Linksys announcement of the SPA8000 — an eight-port FXS Analog Terminal Adaptor device — early this year had many eagerly anticipating its release.

Finally, that time is here. The Linksys SPA8000 is now available in the United States.

We’ve been testing a unit Linksys made avaialble to us for several months. Read our First Look at the Linksys SPA8000-G1 or if you have already bought a unit, try the new Linksys SPA8000 Device Configuration Wizard.

For small- and medium-sized businesses, going VoIP is no easy matter. The choices are complex and confusing.

Because of the perceived risks, most small and medium businesses are not ready to move completely to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in one move. Instead small and medium businesses are looking for an incremental transition from the world of analog to VoIP.

TalkSwitch offers an upgradeable line of hybrid PBX systems to fit the need — starting with the TS-24-CA supporting two lines and four extensions and continuing to the TS-48-CVA supporting 16 lines and 32 local and 32 remote extensions.

The newly released version 4.0 of the PBX software now extends VoIP support beyond trunks to the extensions, allowing an organization to use both analog and SIP phones.

We tested the TS-48CVA with version 4.0 software, a TS-400 phone, a TS-600 phone, a Polycom SoundPoint IP 601 SIP phone, and an Aastra 390 analog phone.

Read the editor’s review or post your own.

The TalkSwitch TS-600 is the other phone reviewed this weekend.

The TS-600 is the top-tier phone from TalkSwitch.

I spent my Sunday playing with TalkSwitch. Please don’t make me a complete nerd and at least read my review or add your own.

The TS-400 from TalkSwitch is a middle-tier analog phone packed with features.

The Linksys SPA400 product review is available on Voxilla.com.

The direct link is: Voxilla - Linksys SPA400 (4-port FXO gateway).