[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and a D/42NS
tim panton
tpanton at attglobal.net
Tue May 17 01:39:56 MST 2005
On 17 May 2005, at 02:21, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The company I work for deploys and manages telecom hardware for
> small- to
> medium-sized businesses. My boss has asked me to investigate
> Asterisk as a
> possible PBX for deploying to customers along with IP phones. The
> general
> layout would be:
>
> -------------- ----------
> | trunk | ---------- | LAN, |
> | (T1/analogs/ | =======> | Asterisk | =========> |IP phones |
> | etc.) | ---------- ----------
> --------------
>
> I'm building a test machine right now to experiment with using one
> of our
> analog lines. We have two spare Dialogic D/42NS cards, and I was
> hoping I
> would make one of them work. Has anyone tried that model? I haven't
> found
> any information, good or bad.
>
> The supported hardware list on asterisk.org has the D/41JCT-LS. Is
> that a
> very similar card? Could I "pretend" the D/42NS is a D/41JCT-LS?
The advice I was given when I started down the same line a year ago was:
Forget the dialogic, the drivers are old and not free and almost no-
one is
using them. You are better off just buying a well supported card
(ideally
from Digium).
There are technical and legal reasons why the Dialogics don't fit
into the Asterisk world view - as such even if you do get it to work
it won't be representative of what you'd actually install for a
customer.
What I did was to build a system that was 100% voip using spare old
hardware and played with it until I was comfortable with Asterisk, then
splashed out on an E1 card and some dedicated hardware.
Turned out fine for us.
Tim
>
> Thanks,
> Corey
>
>
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