[asterisk-users] Asterisk and ISDN and Hylafax

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:35:52PM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Olivier wrote:
> > 2006/10/27, Armin Schindler <armin at melware.de>:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas Winter wrote:
> > > > Am Thursday 26 October 2006 23:35 schrieben Sie:
> > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Thomas Winter wrote:
> > > > > I would recommend the Eicon DIVA Server 4BRI cards. They have a
> > > > > capi interface which is used by chan-capi (chan-capi.org) and
> > > > > onboards DSPs for the faxing.
> > > > > You can use this for send and receive faxes and/or use
> > > > > capi4hylafax
> > > > > in parallel with asterisk/chan-capi.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > sounds good, you think it will run reliable?
> > > 
> > > I do think so. I have this exactly this setup running twice. One setup
> > > even
> > > has 2 DIVA 4BRI cards, where the send one is running all ports in NT-mode
> > > to
> > > connect a legacy PBX.
> > > Regarding the 'parallel' hylafax, you just need to make sure that your
> > > setup
> > > is correct, e.g. asterisk should not be configured to accept calls which
> > > are
> > > meant for hylafax.
> > > 
> > > Armin
> > > 
> > > What about telephony features using chan-capi and Asterisk ?
> > Are those features on par with msidn+Asterisk or bristuff+Asterisk (maybe
> > I'm mixing up things together) ?
> 
> You can compare it with e.g. misdn+Asterisk. chan-capi is just another 
> channel driver for Asterisk which provides access to ISDN/POTS hardware
> and drivers which support the CAPI interface. This includes
> - standard voice
> - DTMF
> - echo-cancel
> - Line-Interconnect
> - Fax
> - RTP
> ...
> 
> Don't mix it with bristuff. As far as I know, bristuff consists of
> a) some additional zap driver.

and a replacement of much of chan_zap. It is said to have a suppreior 
ISDN stack.

> b) Asterisk changes/patches which alter asterisk features.
> [c) the old version of chan-capi]

I know that there have been a bit of development of it. This is not
chan-capi 0.3.5 . But I'm realy not familiar with it.

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