[Asterisk-Users] E1 R2 on Asterisk

[Alejandro Olchik]

Any timeframe?

Regards,
Alejandro

Steve Underwood said:
> John Todd wrote:
>
>>> LQ (Asterisk) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear fellows,
>>>>
>>>> I need to use Asterisk with an E1 card with CAS R2 signalling for
>>>> Argentina.
>>>> I know that the E100P don't support it right now.
>>>>
>>> Correct
>>>
>>>> Does anybody developing R2 drivers?
>>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>>
>> Interestingly terse reply; perhaps you can be more specific?
>>
>> I have an interest in the same drivers, and there was some discussion
>> a week ago (two weeks?) on the topic, specifically about how a driver
>> might be written, but I heard no confirmation that there was progress
>> or any timeframes.
>>
>> Anyone have any encouraging updates for those of us waiting for R2?
>
> I've been more specific in the past. This was just a brief recap, since
> its the same question each time (OK, the country varies, but not much
> else).
>
> The work was held up by SARS, as the testing has been done in China. Now
>  the SARS threat has abated, I hope we will see a polished China R2
> soon.  Every other country requires modifications, as no two countries
> implement R2 in quite the same way. However, the software has been
> written with all the variants in mind, and completing support for other
> countries should be pretty straightforward, once it is a proven platform
>  in China.
>
> You will find some elements of R2ness in CVS. That is work I did over a
> year ago, then left unfinished. The DSP part of that is OK, although I
> have improved it recently. The rest was a lash-up, which has now been
> totally replaced by a solid implementation. I have a new channel driver
> for Asterisk, which supports R2 and PRI with the Zaptel drivers. My
> intention is to add other protocols, so this becomes a replacement for
> chan_zap. The way chan_zap works had some flexibility issues for me, so
> I have tried to steer everything through a generalised signalling API.
> On one side are plug in protocols - currently PRI and R2. On the other
> side is Asterisk. Hopefully, this will allow new protocols to plug in
> with little or no change to anything in Asterisk. This is somewhat like
> Dialogic's GlobalCall, but hopefully without so much of their
> clunkiness. :-)
>
> FAQ: Can I help with testing, and be an early adopter?
>
> No. I have all the testers I need right now. Until I have it well
> proven, with E1's full of calls pumping through it, I am not interesting
>  in having other testers involved. I expect the assistance of other
> testers will be needed later, to deal with issues arising from the local
>  variants of R2. Help at that time will be most appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
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