[asterisk-users] pci cards VS patton

[Giorgio Incantalupo]

Hi Olivier,

so if you say that Patton hardware is bad documented, hard to configured 
and without echo canceller I think it is useless...don't you think? 
Unless it is much more reliable (no crashes at all)....


Olivier wrote:
>
>
> 2009/3/2 Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo at fgasoftware.com 
> <mailto:gincantalupo at fgasoftware.com>>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've been using telephone cards for 4-5 years and now I'm considering
>     the Patton gateways. What are the pro and cons of Patton stuff
>     compared
>     to internal cards in a production system? Someone say external gateway
>     are better because has no echo but have a longer delay when
>     placing calls.
>     Any suggestion appreciated.
>
>
> I would be cautious regarding echo performance, as enhanced echo 
> cancelling software are now available on some telephony cards (HPEC, 
> OSLEC, ...) and I can't see at the moment (experience will tell) why 
> Patton gateways would perform any better or worse than telephony 
> cards. I would be very curious to read other testimonies on that.
>
> On another topic, I would say those gateway are not so easy to configure :
> - a web server is embeded but it is not documented anywhere and it's 
> GUI is far from natural,
> - alternatively, you can edit a config file for which a huge doc is 
> available but, as this boxes are not specifically designed to work 
> with Asterisk, doc is not easy to understand (it took me 3 days to 
> find how to register a gateway to an Asterisk server).
>
> Anyway, configuring ISDN ports is easy and the range of possibilities 
> is larger than with telephony cards :
> - BRI/PRI, TE/NT, PtP/PtmP : every case is supported (BRI/NT/PtmP is 
> not in latest libpri, for instance)
> - routing seems very powerful.
>
>
> In the long run, I would preferably use telephony cards (or products) 
> manufactered by companies directly contributing to Asterisk source 
> code development (Digium, Xorcom, ...), and build telephony gateways 
> with Asterisk, those telephony cards and off-the-shelf components, but 
> I'm not sure conditions are met to do it now.
>
> That's why I'm also using Patton gateways at the moment and I think 
> it's good to consider using them.
>
> Hope this helps.
>  
>
>
>
>     Thank you!
>
>     Giorgio
>
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