[Asterisk-Users] ISDN FXS for home use

[Adam Schreiber]

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As a former ADTRAN technical support engineer for ISDN, the TE in "TE
side" stands for Terminal Equipment.  Just like DTE stands for Data
Terminal Equipment.

Adam Schreiber

Oliver Brandt wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> thank you very much for your reply!
>
>>As long as Asterisk only has to provide TE side you can pretty much
use any
>>Isdn4Linux supported card. IMHO CAPI is nicer, but also more costly.
>
> I belive TE side means asterisk akts like a phone but you can't dial in
> like a phonesystem. Could you tell me what TE stands for and what the
> other side is calld? What is IMHO CAPI? I of course know what CAPI is
> it's just the IMHO part.
>
>
>>>2.)
>>>A little box thats an FXO and FXS at the same time:
>>>ISDN-phonsystem -> FXO/FXS-box -> PSTN
>>>                              -> *
>>>The Vega 50 on www.vegastream.com seams to be able to do this but it is
>>>way to expensive for what I'm trying to achieve (saw prices round
>>>$2000).
>>
>>Looks like a cool little box indeed. Too bad its so expensive, but its
not
>>surprising..
>
>
> I'll keep looking around maybe I'll find it cheaper. I only found a
> price on one site.
>
>>Have patience, you can use HFC ISDN cards to do NT mode, but they way
to do
>>it still pretty much sucks right now. However, some work is being done
as I
>>understand it. One problem you will have remaining is support. I don't
>>think it will be entirely trivial to make asterisk failover by bridging
>>incoming to outgoing lines (esp. with ISDN) right now.
>
>
> Now we are talking. Looked at their site and this seams to be what I'm
> looking for. I'll try to find out more about the status of these cards.
> Hopefully this will work soon, as this is would round up hardware for *
> boxes nicely, at least for me ;-)
>
> Thanks again!
> Oliver
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