[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Dialogic channel

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Matt Florell wrote:

> First of all, what kind of channel will it be? will it be called Zap,
> Dialogic or something else?

It is called chan_dialogic, and Dialogic in the dialplan.

> What specific features will it allow? Will the set of audio processing
> functions available in the current Dialogic driver set be accessible through
> Asterisk? If so how are they going to be made accessible?

No audio processing functions that are unique to the Dialogic systems 
are available via the channel driver at this time. It provides a 
'standard' Asterisk channel driver: placing/receiving calls, bridging, 
transferring, echo cancellation, DTMF detection, etc.

> What kind of Dialogic cards will Asterisk support? will 24-channel analog
> cards be supported as well?

It supports any hardware that is supported by the Global Call stack.

> I understand that this is not scheduled for release until November, I just
> want to be able to answer questions from clients that may have heard about
> this and want to stick 10 quad T1 Dialogic cards in their system because
> they heard Asterisk supports them now.

If they are trying to use them as simple PSTN interfaces I suspect that 
would work (although I doubt they'll find a system with 10 slots <G>). 
If they want to do onboard audio processing beyond echo cancellation and 
DTMF detection they will likely be disappointed.