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

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca>:


http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI
is that the card you mean ?
it says it supports asterisk


> Dave Donovan 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.
>>
>> On 6/27/07, *Joe Greco* < jgreco at ns.sol.net <mailto:jgreco at ns.sol.net>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     > Thoughts? Who here has used BRI in North America? And when you
>>     did, what
>>     > interface hardware did you use?
>>
>>     Well, at the time, there was pretty much nothing that was considered
>>     to be
>>     "reliably" supported by Asterisk for NA BRI.
>>
>>     I picked up an Adtran Atlas 550 with a 4BRI-U interface and an octal
>>     FXS,
>>     and I use the unit's built-in T1 network port to connect to an Asterisk
>>     box.  This works nicely, except for the things for which it doesn't work
>>     nicely.  The box is fundamentally being used as a BRI<->PRI translator,
>>     but gives me some neat extras.  .....
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else seen a working hardware solution that didn't cost an arm
>> and a leg?  It seems to me that a BRI card should cost less than $100.
>> I think I remember a German friend telling me that they go for around
>> $40 dollars.
>>
>> I know that I can get a BRI with voice service out of Bell.  I think
>> they have to provide it because of the CRTC tariffs.
>
> The pricing from Telus wasn't that bad; it used to be much more expensive.
>
>> The thing that has stopped me from trying it in the past is the
>> uncertainty around hardware.  Do I understand correctly that NA (North
>> American?) BRI is different from the European version and that European
>> hardware won't work?
>>
>> If I could get a card for a few hundred bucks then I'd be willing to
>> give this a shot.  Unfortunately, I can't afford a few grand for the
>> Adtran setup described, although it does sound cool and the BRI<->PRI
>> conversion approach is a clever way of overcoming the hardware scarcity.
>
> Sangoma just came out with a BRI card. What's missing is a 2B1Q driver.
> I am trying to persuade them to write a 2B1Q driver for it. Dave -- if
> you would get in touch with them and add your voice to the chorus, it
> wouldn't hurt.
>
> I don't know what the price on the Sangoma card is, but it would be a
> couple hundred dollars, I suspect. Nowhere near the Adtran contraption
> previously described.
>
> The hardware for most cards is the same; the signalling is managed by
> the driver. The difference is just in the signalling; the technology is
> basically the same.
>
>> For the number of times that I see people trying to get digital style
>> features out of analog lines, and banging their head against the wall,
>> I'd love to get a BRI working and be able to tell you all how it worked
>> out.
>
> There's an untapped market here, for sure.
>
> -Stephen-
>
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Jon Pounder

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