[Asterisk-Users] A few questions

[Steven Critchfield]

In trying to follow Marks advice and be nice to newcomers, I'll just put
URLS below.

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 06:10, Mark wrote:
> We have several C/T servers with PRI lines that are under utilised, in
> the following configuration
> 
> eISDN -> PRI -> C/T Server 1
> 
> eISDN -> PRI -> C/T Server 2
> 
> eISDN -> PRI -> C/T Server 3
> 

> For our C/T applications we need the Dialed Number passing from the PRI
> to the C/T server - is this possible ?

Not exactly passing, but recreating.

exten => 123456,1,Dial(g2,${EXTEN}) 
This will essentially connect the 2 legs together and introduce the
number on the other side.  

> If we install 2 or more of the Quad port ISDN cards, and a call came in
> on the first card, but was re-directed out of a second card, is there a
> dedicated bus between the cards (as with Dialogic cards) or would it use
> the Server's PCI bus ?

No, there is no Sbus or whatever it is called on Dialogic. All calls
pass through the PCI bus. Probably covered on the Wiki somewhere
http://www.voip-info.org/

> Do you have any idea of the extra load this would put on the CPU ?

There is a whitepaper on Digiums site discussing that.
http://www.digium.com/images/pdf/QuadCardCPUBenchmark.pdf

> We also have a Samsung DCS phone switch that connects to 4 BRI lines, do
> you have or know of any product that will work with asterisk and allow
> us to connect this to the Asterisk server ?

> Asterisk -> 4xBRI -> DCS

http://ns1.jnetdns.de/jn/relaunch/asterisk/page17.html

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>