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

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jon Pounder <jonp at inline.net> wrote:
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>>> BRI is stupid in the US anyways, that is why it was never supported or
>>> proper stack written (with the exception of Marcin's).  BRI was a
>>> miscarriage in the US and it will probably disappear in the near
>>> future.
>>>
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>> Okay, great! Why didn't you just reply with that to begin? Seriously...? '-)
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>> Look, this confirms what I'd pretty much concluded already. All I wanted to know. Now I can stop trying to find out what the deal is, you see.
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>> . . .
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>> Truly, I thought getting a public recommendation to contact someone who already hadn't passed the "please don't taint my GNU/Linux and open source" machine test, was, well, funny... okay?
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>> I found it *particularly* funny as you didn't address the part of my post where I want to know if it's common to, well... you can call it what you want with borrowing, and keeping modified, open source code (if that's what happened)... for me, I'm *not* a capitalist, but I do understand the effect on open source when folks do that. ;-)
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>>> Just get a partial PRI, POTS, or a some DSL lines.
>>>
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>> Partial PRI is also disappearing, I've been told -- though now I'll have to try harder to find it since I don't need any bandwidth, but would like digital lines. POTS will likely have to do after all.
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> Well maybe if there was a decently supported piece of hardware that
> actually worked in North America, enough people on this list would
> actually see the benefits of BRI where T1/PRI is just not the right fit
> for the situation, and there would be a demand and it would become more
> well known and not disappear, .....
>
> I agree though, if nothing changes it will go away before too long.
>

Do you honestly think that out the very small percentage of Asterisk
users that would adopt BRI would change the trend of BRI dying in the
US.  I don't even mention Asterisk when dealing with carrier and turn
up issues because 9 times out of 10 they blame Asterisk, followed by,
we don't support that setup.

Asterisk is a mere blip on the PBX screen but it has shown up and is
getting larger.

As far as partial PRI, I have no problems ordering these circuits in
the mid east.  Some have data, some just have 6 voice channels turned
up (that is the lowest number of channels I have been able to find).

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Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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