[Asterisk-Users] FXO/FXS card

[Luis Vazquez]

I totally agree "Digium should look at filling this market segment" and 
also shoul raise the testing and quality level in this segment, mainly 
if asterisk is intended to be a world (as any lead free software and 
community supported proyect should be) and not  only an USA 
product/proyect.
T1 plus channels bank is a solution for USA but not for many other 
countries because disconnect suppervision in USA is different from 
allmost all the rest of the world (USA people is allways special :) and 
the performance and stability of TDM4xx FXO modules is far from 
acceptable in production environment (mainly if you want to use more 
than 4 lines).

Respect to the 12 port voicetronix, just to prevent other naive guys out 
there from wasting 1400 bucks (as we did): think it twice and if 
possilbe wait for a while except in case you have some money to spare 
and want to play with a (nice and) new toy.
We have bought one of this cards six mounths ago and after many goes and 
comes, including many contributions to chan_vpb we are still not able to 
take it seriously as an fxo option for an asterisk pbx solution.
Many times it takes asterisk down, in other cases the server is totally 
frozen when you are making a call (connectin twp vpb ports), sometimes 
many strange noises, many times vpb fxo channels get stucked forever, 
etc.... An what is more frustrating this happens in totally randomic ways.
So, really nice hardware (looks much better than Digium fxo modules or 
x100p) but many, many things to improve before this becomes a really 
fxo/fxs sollution for Asterisk based systems.
It seems to have one (1) developer devoted to asterisk/voicetronix 
integration is far from enought for such an important (and big?) work.

Best regards
Luis

>asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
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>>Henry Devito wrote:
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>>>Hi,  I thought I remember seeing somewhere on the Asterisk website a
>>>card that had 16 ports fxo or fxs, that was user selectable with
>>>straps on the card.  Am I going crazy,  I can't seem to find it now.
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>>I think you're talking about the Voicetronix 12 port. Voicetronix says
>>it works with Asterisk but I never tried myself..
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>>http://www.voicetronix.com.au/hda.htm
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>>Gilad
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>Does anyone actually use this card in Asterisk.  For some reason I don't get
>a warm fuzzy feeling about their Asterisk support.
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>I think Digium should look at filling this market segment.  There are lots
>of small businesses that are in the 12 FXS/FXO space and Asterisk is a great
>fit for them.  I also like the feature that allows you to link one of the
>FXO ports to an FXS port in the event of power failure.
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>The quote I got from a distributor in Canada was about 1500 US$ for the 12
>port.  So it makes it cheaper to go with the TDM4xx cards, but then you have
>the IRQ sharing and other problems that seem to exist when you try adding a
>bunch to a system.
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>Have a great day!
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>Geoff
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