[asterisk-users] ISDN

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Steve Totaro wrote:

> I have done this.  Why BRIs exist in the US is beyond me.  If you can, 
> don't go with BRI.

Why didn't BRI catch-on in the US? It's been in-use in the UK and Europe 
for a long time (especially Germany AIUI). I have several sites with 
ISDN2e (BRI) in the UK. In some locations it was cheaper to run in more 
ISDN2e lines than get BT to provide an ISDN30e (BT 'forcing' the customer 
to pay for the fibre, but they'd happily run ISDN2e over copper). One site 
has 8 ISDN2e ports (16 channels), although I think only 6 are "lit" right 
now.

I use mISDN FWIW.

Gordon