[asterisk-users] Looking for PRI Card with automatic fail over

Wed Aug 5 04:01:15 CDT 2015

Responding to Matt Riddell, M Shokuie, A J Stiles, and Telium Support (all
below)

Thanks for the suggestions, but a separate gateway is a problem in the
design as the configuration is basically:

Carrier --- PRI --- Asterisk (with failover) ---- Legacy PBX
                              |
                              - SIP / IAX2 -- our service or remote office

As this is already acting as a gateway adding another box to the mix seems
a bit over kill (unless I can embed it and the asterisk PBX into a 2 U
pizza box). But since most gateways are designed to be used for fail over
servers / PBXs not lines I am not sure that this would benefit us.

So far I have found 1 company that seems to have a gateway card and that is
the beroNet PCI / PCIe Gateway Cards which they say has the card level
failover. I will update the list should this meet the use case.
Eric

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> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:54:05 -0500
> From: Matt Riddell <lists at venturevoip.com>
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> Yep it was red fone
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> 7 years ago :-)
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> Matt Riddell
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> From: M Shokuie <senahrm at gmail.com>
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> Hi there,
>
> Using Sangoma Vega400 gateway you'll have what is called resilliency which
> is exactly what you are looking for.
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> Regards.
> --
> M. Shokuie Nia
> On Aug 3, 2015 18:51, "Eric Klein" <eric.klein at greenfieldtech.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Strange request, I have a customer where we are putting an Asterisk PBX
> in
> > front of a legacy (non-VoIP) PBX. One of the requirements it that the
> > Asterisk PBX have 2 PRI ports (on towards the legacy PBX and one towards
> > the carrier) with the ability to go to pass through should the Asterisk
> PBX
> > (software or hardware level) fail.
> >
> > I did not see this feature in the Digium, Sangoma, Allo, or OpenVox
> cards.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a card that will do this? I know that Digium has an
> > external box (the r850) that does something similar for 2 PBXs making
> them
> > high availability, but in this case I only have the 1 Asterisk box acting
> > as a gateway and passing some calls out over SIP and IAX2.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Eric
> >
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> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:47:02 +0100
> From: A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>
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> On Monday 03 Aug 2015, Eric Klein wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Strange request, I have a customer where we are putting an Asterisk PBX
> in
> > front of a legacy (non-VoIP) PBX. One of the requirements it that the
> > Asterisk PBX have 2 PRI ports (on towards the legacy PBX and one towards
> > the carrier) with the ability to go to pass through should the Asterisk
> PBX
> > (software or hardware level) fail.
> >
> > I did not see this feature in the Digium, Sangoma, Allo, or OpenVox
> cards.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a card that will do this? I know that Digium has an
> > external box (the r850) that does something similar for 2 PBXs making
> them
> > high availability, but in this case I only have the 1 Asterisk box acting
> > as a gateway and passing some calls out over SIP and IAX2.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Use a 4-pole change-over relay to switch the PRI connection either to the
> Asterisk box if it gets some sort of "heartbeat" signal from the computer
> (say, toggling one of the lines of a printer port, if the motherboard still
> has one),  or the old PABX?
>
> You might have to do some mean, down and dirty low-level programming, to
> embed
> your heartbeat-generating code in Asterisk's idle loop; but the Source
> Code is
> out there, if you fancy the challenge .....
>
> --
> AJS
>
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> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:23:47 -0400
> From: Technical Support <support at telium.ca>
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> On 8/4/2015 3:47 AM, A J Stiles wrote:
> > On Monday 03 Aug 2015, Eric Klein wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Strange request, I have a customer where we are putting an Asterisk PBX
> in
> >> front of a legacy (non-VoIP) PBX. One of the requirements it that the
> >> Asterisk PBX have 2 PRI ports (on towards the legacy PBX and one towards
> >> the carrier) with the ability to go to pass through should the Asterisk
> PBX
> >> (software or hardware level) fail.
> >>
> >> I did not see this feature in the Digium, Sangoma, Allo, or OpenVox
> cards.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a card that will do this? I know that Digium has an
> >> external box (the r850) that does something similar for 2 PBXs making
> them
> >> high availability, but in this case I only have the 1 Asterisk box
> acting
> >> as a gateway and passing some calls out over SIP and IAX2.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > Use a 4-pole change-over relay to switch the PRI connection either to the
> > Asterisk box if it gets some sort of "heartbeat" signal from the computer
> > (say, toggling one of the lines of a printer port, if the motherboard
> still
> > has one),  or the old PABX?
> >
> > You might have to do some mean, down and dirty low-level programming, to
> embed
> > your heartbeat-generating code in Asterisk's idle loop; but the Source
> Code is
> > out there, if you fancy the challenge .....
> >
> Building on the answer above, have a look at ESL labs - who make such a
> relay that can bypass the PRI to the Asterisk server.  As well, have a
> look at HAAst (www.telium.ca) which can monitor Asterisk and then
> control the ESL relay to bypass Asterisk in case of failure.
>
> -Raj-
>
> P.S. My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. As I
> am employed by Telium you can bet that me opinions are biased!
>
>
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