[Asterisk-Users] Cheap BRI card

[Michiel van Baak]

On 16:14, Fri 17 Feb 06, Mimmus wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm asking to myself what's the main problem in using cheap BRI cards
> (30-60Euro, as these HFC-based) vs. great active cards as Eicon DIVA.

Those active cards are "active".
They do a lot of audio and dtmf processing onboard.
This way it can be done by hardware specially made for this
kind of job instead of using the host CPU and a software
layer.

My experience is that handling a simple BRI line works great
with the cheap cards, but bundled BRI lines or setups with multiple
ISDN2 lines really benefit from the active cards.

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