[Asterisk-Users] FXO/FXS card

[Isamar Maia]

Prezado Luis,

I agree with you 100%. I tried my self to substitute a common PBX by a
TDM04b & TDM40b and I faced all kind of problems. Finally I changed all the
building wiring and I couldn't reach the system stability even contacting
the support couple of times.
TDM04b and TDM40b is very far way to be considered a product for
production outside US.
I have another IVR/VOIP system running TDM04b but only receiving calls
once in a while and it works perfect. But the problematic system receives
calls every minute all the day in all the lines. Very hardcore and it was
freezing some FXO port once in a while. Latest CVS, server/MO changed
already, new wiring, several setup tries.
I changed even the telephone sets for new ones.

Isamar

P.S.: BTW, I am in Japan


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Luis Vazquez wrote:

> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I think you're talking about the Voicetronix 12 port. Voicetronix says
> >>it works with Asterisk but I never tried myself..
> >>
> >>http://www.voicetronix.com.au/hda.htm
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Have a great day!
> >
> >Geoff
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