[Asterisk-bsd] ATA's

[Abdul Hakeem]

Hi,
Did you ever managed to get the FXO port to support Answer Supervision ?
Calls show duration during ringback, and all effort to get Sipura's support
is turning out to no avail.

Regards,
Abdul Hakeem 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Vahan Yerkanian
Sent: 01 June 2007 06:32
To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] ATA's

Hi,

Yes, Linksys has acquired Sipura a while ago, and has already released new
versions of the ATAs. I've used their products for the past 3 years and
tested almost all of their models. So far they seem the best you can get in
the FXS market. Just stay away from SPA-3000 (it's FXO part), as it might be
unusable in your area due to its echo canceler. SPA-94x phones are in my
opinion a step up from Grandstream Budgetone phones. 
Overall, once you're comfortable with Linksys' provisioning system, you'll
start enjoying their products.

Get yourself a couple of Linksys SPA-2102 to start with, they are rock
stable - at least they don't overheat - even lit by direct sunshine.

HTH,
Vahan

Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed Linksys seems to have purchased Sipura?  Anyone use the 
> Linksys products that resulted?  The grandstream seems to be the 
> cheapest.  What do you give up?  Sound quality I don't want to 
> sacrifice, but abundant features I might...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> j
> 
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Nate Kettlewell wrote:
> 
>> Jeff,
>>
>> The iaxy sucks..  however it works well behind NAT, and that's about 
>> all it has going for it IMHO. I personally prefer the sipura SPA's or 
>> if I am cheap, the grandstream handytones will get you done.
>>
>> Ditch the Iaxys, keep some sanity,
>>
>> Nate
>>
>> On 5/31/07, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Frequent lurker comes up for air.  TIA for any advice.
>>>
>>> I am running Internet Cafes in the islands and am adding calling 
>>> stations for the cruise ship crew and passengers to use while 
>>> visiting.  I already have an asterisk server running a custom 
>>> prepaid access card system we wrote, and I have been using the 
>>> Digium Iaxy to get customers to the AGI program (whatever they press 
>>> at dialtone jumps them to "enter your PIN number").  This is working 
>>> fine, but for a few issues with the sixteen of them I currently have in
service:
>>>
>>> 1) The Iaxy is prohibitively expensive per port
>>> 2) The Iaxy is difficult to provision in the field
>>> 3) It seems to overheat and lose its mind once in a while
>>> 4) poor network connectivity causes it to disconnect and STAY 
>>> disconnected, requiring a reboot
>>>
>>> Its starting to drive me nuts, actually.  I went with the Iaxy in 
>>> the first place thinking it would be the best marriage to asterisk.  
>>> Then someone handed me a Sipura SPA-2000 a few days ago.  It 
>>> actually has a built in IVR that you can use from either of the two 
>>> FXS ports and an analog telephone to read or SET network parameters.  
>>> The web interface is excellent and has a wealth of options.  The 
>>> Iaxy, by comparison, has a few commands in a text file for options.  
>>> I had it connected to a local asterisk in about thirty seconds, then 
>>> in about an hour (much tweaking of SIP NAT parameters on both ends) 
>>> I got it working with our public asterisk server and the prepaid phone
card interface.
>>>
>>> So now to the advice.  My eyes have been opened to the fact that the 
>>> large number of ATAs available are far from close in terms of 
>>> quality, with the Iaxy somewhere near the bottom.  What ATAs are 
>>> people happy with connected to asterisk?  Especially service 
>>> providers that are provisioning them remotely?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jeff LaCoursiere
>>> JB Telenet, LLC
>>> St Thomas, VI 00802
>>> jeff at jbtelenet.com
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