[Asterisk-Users] BRI Newbie - What Hardware, PCI, in the US?

[Conrad Wood]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:47 +0000, Chris Bagnall wrote:
> > I do not even know which brands/models to consider that are 
> > out there. Given that we are in the US, and want to use BRI 
> > to improve sound quality (no echo, no static), what would be 
> > some good cards to look at? I hear a lot about BRIStuff, 
> > which I think is used on the Junghanns cards (like the 
> > quadBRI PCI ISDN), using the CAPI channel. Are those the 
> > Cadillac of ISDN cards?
> 
> Consensus certainly seems to be the Junghanns cards are amongst the best,
> but not exactly cheap. If you only need to service 2 BRIs, you might want to
> look at some of the passive options. We have a number of sites here in the
> UK running 2 HFC-S based cards in a box, all of which seem quite
> satisfactory (no echo, etc.). Over here you can pick up HFC-S based cards
> (the ones we use are these: http://www.solwise.co.uk/isdn.htm) for under
> £20, so they're probably even cheaper on your side of the pond.
> 

Same here, we use 2 MRI HFC-S cards in one box. We use bristuff. We had
terrible issues with isdn4linux and capi (admittedly that was a year
ago, it might be better now). With bristuff it all works very well.

conrad