[asterisk-users] About BRI / ISDN hardware. What to buy?

[Armin Schindler]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Alberto Pastore wrote:
> I tested BRI-2M, 4BRI-8M, PRI-30M on several installations,
> even older 1.0 version cards (PCI 5v only) just work great.
> 
> I use diva server drivers & software source rpm from Eicon,
> chan_capi from www.melware.org (0.7.1) on asterisk 1.2.14
> (kernel 2.6.17.3). We've deployed more than 40 PBX (from 1 bri
> to 8 bri) without a flaw.
> 
> I'm only a little bit annoyed about not being able to take
> advantage of the onboard DSPs to perform audio transcoding,
> because
> of the lack of a suitable asterisk driver
> (the cards themselves support hardware gsm/g726 codecs,
> for instance).

Sorry for that ;-) chan-capi already has rtp code to select one
codec using also DSPs anti-jitter buffer. It is not fully tested and the 
full support for all codecs is still missing.
Also, full conferencing using the DSPs is in progress.


Armin