[asterisk-users] Samsung Prostar DCS

[Florian Overkamp]

Curt Shaffer wrote:
> I walked into a new potential * install yesterday. They are running a 
> Samsung Prostar DCS. Does anyone have any experience with these out 
> there that you could relay some things to look out for when integrating 
> this until the migration is complete? Or what would be the best way to 
> integrate it while migrating.

We coupled an Asterisk box to a Samsung DCS a while back. We did it 
based on ISDN2 BRI lines, where Asterisk was the NT side. We did notice 
the DCS had some problems accepting different timing sources on 
different TE busses, causing some strange effects with callers in 
meetme-conferences. It worked fine for some time, but needed recycling 
every once in a while, so I would not recommend this approach unless you 
also have a good DCS technician with you :) Eventually we phased out the 
DCS and implemented IP-phones all over the office.

If you need a solid approach, perhaps you can place the *-machine in the 
path of the ISDN lines:

DCS -> * -> PSTN

This would avoid the timing issues we have seen.


Best regards,
Florian