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

[Dave Donovan]

On 7/5/07, Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca> wrote:
>
> > I would be willing to help out with a driver, but without a line and
> > card I am not sure how productive that would be.
>
> As I've already said, I can get one, and it's not a big deal, so I'll be
> the test case.
>
> -Stephen-


Ok, how about this for a scenario:  We could order a BRI from Bell at
Stephen's location.  We could get a Sangoma card (or some other piece of
hardware that we determine) and put it in some vanilla box.  I guess it
would be best to isolate that from Stephen's production network and then
just let the developers tunnel into it by some means.

I'd be willing to bend some ears and see if Sangoma would put up the card.

I wonder if we need piece of reference hardware.  Imagine this scenario, we
order the circuit and Bell wants to turn it up.  What do we turn up with?
It would be great if we had something that we could plug into it and get
that working just to establish that the line is delivered correctly and
functioning.

Another option is to buy something that would provide BRI service on site.
I'm thinking maybe an old PBX system or something.  I'm not sure what this
stuff would be worth.  I saw this simulator on Ebay but I don't know enough
to say whether it would be suitable for testing voice services:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Lucent-ISDN-simulator-8-BRI-4-T1-NICE-Document-CD_W0QQitemZ120136665085QQihZ002QQcategoryZ51268QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not in the biz but I'd be willing to contribute some $$$ toward the
project.  I'll talk to some other folks in the Toronto Asterisk User Group.
I know there are quite a few consultants/installers in the group and maybe
some will see the benefit of supporting this kind of work.

Has anyone got a PBX with spare BRI ports in it?  Maybe that's a cheap way
to get started.  We could just hook a box up to that and work out some of
the early stage stuff.  I know that people with Polycom (and other)
video/teleconferencing equipment often have BRI cards in their Nortel PBX or
Avaya gear.

It looks like we have the nucleus of a project here.  Let's keep the ball
rolling.

Dave Donovan
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