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

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:47:31 Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > If I were the least bit capable of doing this, it would already be in
> > Asterisk.  I, for one, would love to replace my analog channels with
> > digital (and it would actually be affordable in Tennessee, where I live
> > ~$40/mo).
>
> I replaced my analogue channels with digital some time back. Using a
> technology called VoIP... ;-)

Without getting into a very long rant about the issues of VoIP (best effort,
authorization, authentication), suffice it to say that I'd rather have
dedicated channels for my voice traffic.

> However this has been an interesting thread - ISDN2e (BRI) is widely used
> in the UK and Europe and I have several installations use it in. Just how
> different is the US system to the European/UK one? (and why?)

Like J1 to T1, it's just different enough to require that software developed
for one side of the pond won't work on the other.

-- 
Tilghman