[asterisk-users] Remote CAPI - ISDN over TCP/IP

[Armin Schindler]

Hi,

remote CAPI already exists for a specific protocol (Bintec). This protocol 
is used by rcapidas well , a daemon which exports local CAPI ISDN hardware 
via TCP using the bintec protocol. Using rcapid you can use the ISDN hardware 
remotely within windows with the 'brickware' or from another linux host with 
the melware modified libcapi20 (ftp://ftp.melware.de).

So you do can have an Asterisk server with chan-capi and the modified 
libcapi20 connected via TCP to the CAPI server running rcapid.

If you want to use that Cisco router as CAPI server instead, then you just 
might need to extend the libcapi20 to support that protocol as well.

Armin

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Daniel Matos wrote:
> I posted about this a year or two ago:
>  
> Currently we can find Cisco 801 ISDN Routers on ebay for about 40 euro.
> This equipment supports RCAPI (CAPI over TCP) Think of it as a
> isdn-ethernet adapter.
> There are other manufacturers who support this protocol in their ISDN
> Devices. (AVM, Bintec, Draytek)
>  
> With the proper drivers you could give Asterisk an ISDN interface over a
> TCP/IP Connection.
>  
> The problem is that altough the protocol exists for some years, there
> isn't any known implementation of this idea integrated with asterisk.
>  
> One interesting use of this technology would be to be able to run
> Asterisk completely independent from hardware (in a virtual machine for
> example) while still supporting ISDN connectivity, using cheap, reliable
> and easy to find ISDN "bridges" (Cisco 801's for example)
>  
> I know for sure that the protocol works, as I have some customers
> sending and receiving faxes, using voice mail and ISDN soft-phones on
> Windows, using RVS-COM.
>  
> However I haven't seen any linux implementation, and no one talking
> about using it with asterisk.
>  
> Today I have found some specifications and code samples from bintec
> (ftp://ftp.funkwerk-ec.com/pub/libcapi) that I hope someone with more
> knowledge than me can use to evaluate the possibility.
>  
> Maybe we can start a bounty? I would gladly pay a reasonable amount for
> a working asterisk-Cisco 801 solution.
>  
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Matos
>