[Asterisk-Users] What technology could my phone company be using?

[Doug Meredith]

I live in New Brunswick Canada.  The phone company is Aliant.  When
you set up business service here, you can go with either analog or
digital lines.  This isn't a T1 or ISDN.  They are talking individual
lines direct to handsets that they provide.  They offer the digital
option with even very small ( 2 - 4) number of lines.

What technology could this be?  Is there any way to connect such a
line to Asterisk?  PBX vendors that I have talked to in the past say
that we can bring the Aliant digital lines straight into their PBX.
We would like to do this with Asterisk, but can't figure out what the
technology is.  (ever try to get technical info from the phone
company?)

I have searched the web and the archives, but can't figure out what
the technology could be.  It can't be T1, because these lines come
direct to handsets.  I don't believe it can be BRI because each phone
has only a single line, and the price seems to low.

If anyone can shed any light on this, it would be very much
appreciated.

Doug
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