[asterisk-users] Ordering BRI From AT&T

[Stephen Bosch]

Trevor G. Hammonds wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> I am not aware of any commercial Asterisk-compatible cards that support
> North American BRIs right out of the box.  The best I have been able to come
> up with was a card sold on eBay, where the seller promises to supply a patch
> that needs to be applied to Asterisk (based on BRIstuff) so that it will
> support North American BRIs.  The driver allows only one SPID per BRI, so
> multiple DID/MSNs are not supported.
> 
> Fortunately, PRIs are relatively cheap in California.  As such, I have not
> yet made a concerted effort to find a card that does all that I need over
> BRI -- though I am really interested in having this capability.  I wish the
> Digium BRI card had the drivers for North American ISDN.  Such a shame that
> they went to the effort of getting FCC approval, but didn't bother to do the
> work to actually make it work in the US.  

Sangoma is willing to support NAm BRI for their new A500 BRI card, if
there's enough interest. If this is something you want, you should let
them know.

Last I checked, there was also an informal poll on the Sangoma homepage.

-Stephen-