[Asterisk-bsd] ATA's

[Nate Kettlewell]

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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