[Asterisk-Users] AU FreeBSD PRI Hardware

[Steve Underwood]

Martin List-Petersen wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 07:46, Talbot Neil wrote:
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>>Hi,
>> 
>>I was wondering if there is any PRI hardware that is Austel certified
>>and works 
>>well with Asterisk under FreeBSD??? 
>> 
>>If anyone has any information please let me know as I seem to be
>>having problems
>>finding any documentation in regards to this.
>> 
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>
>Isn't that the matter of finding a .au distributor/reseller, that did
>the certification ?
>
>As far as i've understood it, it works the way, that once somebody
>imports a card, they get it certified and put their stikker on it.
>
>This however doesn't mean, that you can import the same card in parallel
>and use it, as it allready is certified.
>
>Every company that imports telephony hardware has to certify it against
>Austel and they probably will not allow their competitors to use their
>certification.
>
>(Correct me, if i'm wrong).
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>
That is roughly the deal in most places, so it probably is in .au It is 
not unreasonable, either. The body holding the certification is 
responsible for ensuring all units shipped comply with the 
certification. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't do that for 
parallel imports. It used to be that factory inspections and other 
horrible complexity (otherwise known as free holiday trips to Asia :-) ) 
were required in many places. Mostly that has been dropped.

Regards,
Steve