[asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

[Michael Graves]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:46:35 -0400, Jon Pounder wrote:

>Quoting Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
>>> > > Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has   
>>> puzzled me as
>>> > > well.  My key thing for me is hardware.
>>> >
>>> > In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card...
>>>
>>> To use it in the US, you need it to support US signalling.
>>
>> What do they use for BRI in the US?
>
>less and less :)
>
>it was popular for data in the mid 90's, adsl killed it, its  
>practically unheard of for voice, its tariffed though so its still  
>offered but you really have to know what rock to turn over to order  
>it. In Canada at least there is no such thing as a residential service  
>or more people would be hacking around with it, but paying the  
>commercial price is a bit steep to play with to try hardware or  
>software.

Actually, there is one application where BRI is still fairly
common.....real-time audio recording sessions for TV. The voice talent
that TV stations hire to do their announcements, which happen almost
daily, usually use BRI connected hardware. This became the norm as it
was the most reliable connection possible in the mid-90's when this
workflow model was established.

Here in Texas the state regulatory body has decent prices listed for
BRIs, certainly cheaper than POTS lines with a couple of features. I
looked for hardware that was capable of handling US signaling and was
never able to find anything affordable. If Xorcom could pull it off
then that'd be a nice experiment to try. It could significantly reduce
the need for small FXO interfaces, which were always troublesome as
well.

Michael
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