[Asterisk-Users] Fritz card technology & German *

[Peer Oliver Schmidt]

Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:

> So yes, we have 4 channels, so I'm going to need 2x Fritz cards -- but I
> would rather not have to apply patches just to get the two PCI cards to work
> in the same box

Than don't use two Fritz! cards, but two hfc-s cards, or the 4-port 
cards mentioned below.

> The price difference between the cards you guys mentioned is interesting
> 
> I have also heard about BERONET isdn cards?  a single Beronet 4-channel card
> would suffice I think?

It is not a 4-channel, but a 4-port card, i.e. 8-channels, just like the 
junghanns and sirrix cards.

> Thing is, whatever the legacy system in place already is (this is not a
> fresh operation) must have some sort of minor PBX in place, where all the
> phones are plugged in.  So I would have to remove that and could use a TDM
> card to plug the phones in?  These phones, isdn etc -- probably aren't
> analog -- probably don't work with a TDM card right?
> So I think what you were suggesting John is ISDN channel cards and a TDM in
> the same machine?  with * just bridging calls between the two?

An even better approach is the one outlined on the junghanns.net.

Use the existing PBX and plug it into the other two ISDN ports of the 
4-port beronet/junghanns/Sirrix card, and use asterisk as the middleman. 
Adding new phones would be done either as extensions of the old PBX, or 
as SIP-phones to asterisk
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Best regards

Peer Oliver Schmidt
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