[Asterisk-Users] ISDN BRI termination via Cisco?

[Joe Greco]

Greetings -

We've a pair of ISDN BRI that we use for dialtone, fairly happily except
for the recent meltdown of one of our Netgear RT338's.  We're in the
middle of slowly migrating to a VoIP/Asterisk-on-FreeBSD based phone
system.  I had originally considered just buying a Digium TDM400 card
and continuing to use the RT338's to bring out POTS lines from the BRI's,
but the total solution cost is rapidly rising (TDM400 + RT338 + ....)

This had me seriously looking at alternatives for ISDN BRI VoIP termination.
Unfortunately, it looks like even on Linux, the support is somewhat poor for
ISDN cards doing NI1, and I really would prefer not to run a one-off box
with a relatively foreign (to us) OS which seems like even those with some
familiarity have trouble making work.

So I was looking at Cisco stuff, for something unrelated, and noticed that
they have the "VG 200", which appears to maybe be a rebadged 26xx class
router.

Does anyone have any experience terminating NI1 ISDN BRI's on one of these
for use with Asterisk?  How hard is it to make this work?

.. JG
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