[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Eric Chamberlain]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Michael Higgins wrote:

> Folks --
>
> First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the  
> culture of the list. I read the recent post about improvement to the  
> quality of posts with some amusement and full agreement. The problem  
> is a big and very real one. I hope I'm not deepening it.
>
> But my question isn't explicitly asked with this subject line or  
> definitively answered in the archives -- that I have found.
>
> What I did find left me with the impression that USA 'BRI', uh,  
> '2B1Q' protocol(?) is not supported by *any* hardware vendor, at  
> all, period, nor is it tested and proved in the software...  
> stack(?), in one related branch or another on the OS side.

You might want to look into Cisco hardware, their WIC-1B-U cards work  
fine in the US, or they did 10 years ago when I last used them for  
VoIP.  Used the WIC-1B-U is going for under $50 on eBay.  An old 1600  
or 1700 series router with an IOS that supports SIP wouldn't cost much  
either.


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