[Asterisk-bsd] ATA's

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

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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