[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk BRI in the USA

[Michael Graves]

I looked into it last year, and in Texas BRIs are only about $55/mo and include the optional calling features for which you pay extra with POTS. (Caller ID, call forwarding, etc)

The roblem I ran into was that Euro standard hardware does not work on US standard BRI lines. And I could find literally no workable hardware. Since FXOs historixally have been a great 
weakness for Asterisk I think that BRIs would be a great alternative...if the hardware existed.

I ended up simply call forwarding my remaining POTS lines to DID privided by an ITSP. These come in over my DSL line via IAX2.

Michael Graves

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:38:07 -0400, Rusty Dekema wrote:

>I dunno if it's THAT bad. I had a BRI line in the (relatively) podunk
>town of Kalamazoo, Michigan back in 1998. Sure, it took the phone
>company a couple of weeks to provision the service, but it takes the
>phone company a couple of weeks to do most anything in my experience.

>The price was something like $45/mo for two channels and the same
>per-call/per-minute pricing scheme as POTS (no per-minute fee for
>incoming and local calls, regular LD pricing for LD, and 800 local
>outgoing calls included after which it was something like 6 cents per
>call).

>The switch on ILEC's end was a DMS-100 implementing National ISDN-1. I
>really put the ISDN line through its paces too -- voice, data, bonded
>data, automatic bonding and de-bonding to allow for voice calls -- and
>everything always worked flawlessly.

>I don't know what today's pricing is like for ISDN BRI what with all
>of the various mergers (at the time, I had service from Ameritech),
>but unless it has gone up significantly, BRI seems like the perfect
>type of trunk for an Asterisk system too small for a T1/PRI to be an
>affordable option.

>-Rusty
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