[asterisk-users] Modem bridging on Asterisk (no VoIP involved)

[Paul Hales]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:39 +0100, Alberto Pastore wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I know maybe this question has been posted some time ago, but
> I need your updated opinion on the subject.
> 
> I'm replacing our old pbx with asterisk.
> I have two TE207 dual pri (e1) cards on a clustered system
> (one on each node).
> 
> I absolutely need to connect 4/5 analog extensions with
> modems, they're being used for remote assistance on very
> old systems which cannot be upgraded to native IP links.
> 
> Is there a good hardware that can bridge the e1 lines
> on the digium te207 card to my modems?
> A PCI card? An external box?
> 
> I don't want to relay modem connections over ip,
> I just need to bridge them internally on the asterisk server:
> 
> E1 ==> TE207 ==> Asterisk ==> (some hardware with FXS) ==> modems
> 
> TIA for your replies.
> 

Xorcom make things that work for this....56k might not be attainable,
but lower speeds definitely are.

http://www.xorcom.com/

PaulH