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

[Jerry Jones]

Instead you could always get a SIP/IAX provider.


On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Jon Pounder wrote:

> Michael Higgins wrote:
>
> At least here in Canada - DSL just seems to have killed BRI - you
> practically have to know the secret handshake to even be allowed to
> provision one any more. It killed it as an internet transport which  
> was
> its most widespread use, however its many benefits as a digital phone
> line are being largely ignored.
>
> I barked up the same tree you are barking for a while and just gave  
> up -
> lots of "you could buy this and try it", but no proven solution.  
> Kind of
> expensive to get a line put in and buy hardware for a maybe. Years ago
> we had tons of BRI circuits around I could have tried this on, but  
> thats
> long gone.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> A couple of direct inquiries to card vendors have dead-ended with a  
>> flat "no", or requests for development funds(!) -- apparently there  
>> is code for one card, one vendor, that runs against 'bristuff', or  
>> did at one time, but wasn't maintained through several Asterisk  
>> releases (if the code was even released to the community... IDK).
>>
>> Is this common, that someone codes to their chip on their card and  
>> sells it to one or two consumers, then lets it drop and never gives  
>> the code up for continued development? (It seems contrary to GNU/ 
>> Linux licensing conventions, but, again, I'm not paid as a software  
>> developer. I just think they might have sold more cards with a less  
>> proprietary approach.)
>>
>> Anyway, can I, with confidence, state (to the $employer) that  
>> Asterisk on linux via USA 'BRI' digital lines simply isn't  
>> possible? (In that, obviously, I can't pay for development nor do  
>> beta testing, each with vague hope that it might work okay  
>> someday...)
>>
>> If this is the case, then I must use multiple analog lines to  
>> access PSTN, or pay premium for 'PRI' pipes (80% of which we will  
>> never need)... is that about correct?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any pointers, specific RTFM suggestions, any  
>> help appreciated.
>>
>> If there is a different list to post this query to, I'm not (yet)  
>> aware of it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>
>
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