[Asterisk-Users] FXO/FXS card

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael Loftis wrote:

> --On Thursday, September 30, 2004 19:30 -0700 Geoff Nordli 
> 
> > I think everyone agrees with the T100P and an FXS channel bank.  You see
> > them listed on ebay all the time for really, really cheap (<150 US$).  It
> > looks like the Rhinos are pretty inexpensive as well configured with FXS.
> >
> > In North America is ISDN (BRI) a cost effective solution for FXO ports?  I
> > was thinking of something like a quadBRI card, or something like that.
> >
> > Is one able to get extra DIDs when using BRI ISDN?
> 
> No, BRI ISDN is very rarely, if ever, cost effective here in NA.  Not 
> enough 'consumer buy-in.'
> 
> I don't think that ISDN BRI allows for extra DIDs as PRI does, but I could 
> be wrong.  Most of the BRI equipment I've seen requires all that 
> information be hard configured.  I could be wrong though.

Yes, you can get DIDs on a BRI. I think the BRI needs to be in 
Point-to-Point mode, that is certainly the most common configuration for a 
pbx connection in Europe. Normally a few (2-4) BRIs are grouped to form a 
4-8 line isdn connection.

In P-t-P mode a BRI can do nearly everything a PRI can.

Peter