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

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:17:46PM -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:44:12 -0700
>> "Wilton Helm" <whelm at compuserve.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm in the same boat and have been looking at this for several
>> > months, but haven't actually jumped in, hands-on, yet.  No, I don't
>> > think the situation is as dismal as you paint it, although the lack
>> > of appropriate marketing for BRI in the US has all but killed it
>> > here, making it relatively unattractive to vendors.
>>
>> Right. This is what I've come to understand from the archives.
>>
>> > I have been
>> > advised of several cards that support it, but they were two or four
>> > port cards that were serious overkill for my application, and
>>
>> I haven't found ONE card that supports it, so maybe we could compare notes?
>
> It also depends on the level of support you expect of the card. E.g. in
> the case of Zaptel, the card driver and Zaptel provide low-level (layer
> 1) support, and libpri has most of the logic for the higher level layer
> 2 and layer 3.
>
>> At any rate, if you could send along some info about cards that are
>> purported to work here, I'd *really* appreciate it. '-)
>
> As you can see from http://quadbri.phoniceq.com/ , this card is based on
> the Cologne HFC-4S chip, which is like the Junghanns, the Bero.net, the
> Openvox clones and Digium cards use (though the latter have some nice
> extra toys such as the on-board EC). The Xorcom BRI module uses a very
> similar chip. The cheap single-span HFC cards use the HFC-S chipset
> which is not *that* different.
>
> http://quadbri.phoniceq.com/driver/README claims that the card works.
> Hence aparantly layer 1 works there. Hence there is a very good chance
> all of those other devices work as well.
>
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You do understand that phoniceq.com is using Marcin's code, correct?
Not sure what his relationship is, owner, developer, former employee,
bottom line is it is his code, so I suggested eliminating the
middleman (unless he is the owner)

As to the GPL or whatever Asterisk is nowdays...., there are ways
around that as I am sure Marcin knows all too well being that he
designs cards, writes drivers, and other low level things.

He could simple rewrite zaptel and libpri and name them something
else.  Easy enough for a guy like him.

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Thanks,
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