[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Karl Fife]

I wonder if BRI would have gotten traction if it offered PRI functionality 
(DID's and aggregation of multiple spans).  Even TODAY I would drop many of 
my sip trunks for such hypothetical BRI trunks for locations where a full 
PRI is too much capacity.

That's the bane of the PRI:  "Welcome to Joe's coffee shop... Oh, I'm sorry 
we only sell coffee in 40 gallon drums.  You have to buy a whole drum even 
if you only want a cup--or a sip"

-Karl




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Jones" <jjones at danrj.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?


> Instead you could always get a SIP/IAX provider.
>
>
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Jon Pounder wrote:
>
>> Michael Higgins wrote:
>>
>> At least here in Canada - DSL just seems to have killed BRI - you
>> practically have to know the secret handshake to even be allowed to
>> provision one any more. It killed it as an internet transport which
>> was
>> its most widespread use, however its many benefits as a digital phone
>> line are being largely ignored.
>>
>> I barked up the same tree you are barking for a while and just gave
>> up -
>> lots of "you could buy this and try it", but no proven solution.
>> Kind of
>> expensive to get a line put in and buy hardware for a maybe. Years ago
>> we had tons of BRI circuits around I could have tried this on, but
>> thats
>> long gone.
>>
>>
>>> Folks --
>>>
>>> First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the
>>> culture of the list. I read the recent post about improvement to
>>> the quality of posts with some amusement and full agreement. The
>>> problem is a big and very real one. I hope I'm not deepening it.
>>>
>>> But my question isn't explicitly asked with this subject line or
>>> definitively answered in the archives -- that I have found.
>>>
>>> What I did find left me with the impression that USA 'BRI', uh,
>>> '2B1Q' protocol(?) is not supported by *any* hardware vendor, at
>>> all, period, nor is it tested and proved in the software...
>>> stack(?), in one related branch or another on the OS side.
>>>
>>> A couple of direct inquiries to card vendors have dead-ended with a
>>> flat "no", or requests for development funds(!) -- apparently there
>>> is code for one card, one vendor, that runs against 'bristuff', or
>>> did at one time, but wasn't maintained through several Asterisk
>>> releases (if the code was even released to the community... IDK).
>>>
>>> Is this common, that someone codes to their chip on their card and
>>> sells it to one or two consumers, then lets it drop and never gives
>>> the code up for continued development? (It seems contrary to GNU/
>>> Linux licensing conventions, but, again, I'm not paid as a software
>>> developer. I just think they might have sold more cards with a less
>>> proprietary approach.)
>>>
>>> Anyway, can I, with confidence, state (to the $employer) that
>>> Asterisk on linux via USA 'BRI' digital lines simply isn't
>>> possible? (In that, obviously, I can't pay for development nor do
>>> beta testing, each with vague hope that it might work okay
>>> someday...)
>>>
>>> If this is the case, then I must use multiple analog lines to
>>> access PSTN, or pay premium for 'PRI' pipes (80% of which we will
>>> never need)... is that about correct?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any pointers, specific RTFM suggestions, any
>>> help appreciated.
>>>
>>> If there is a different list to post this query to, I'm not (yet)
>>> aware of it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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