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

[Armin Schindler]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Daniel Matos wrote:
> >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
> 
> Does anybody know if the Cisco implementation is different from Bintec?

I cannot tell for sure, but I doubt that since the Bintec protocol is 
proprietary.

> Historically which one came first? I would be very happy to know that
> Cisco used the (apparently) open protocol from Bintec to enhance
> features, while keeping compatibility...

The bintec protocol is not open (as far as I know). For rcapid it was 
re-engineered.

Armin