<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaushalshriyan@gmail.com">kaushalshriyan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div></div></div>Hi Jim,<br><br>Thanks for the explanation, I have couple of questions here. <br><br>1) Does the xorcom box support <b>8 Port PRI E1 Interface</b>. ?<br>
2) Also the Primary and Secondary Asterisk Server can be any server which will run Asterisk or AsteriskNow (<a href="http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow" target="_blank">http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow</a>) Application and customizable or do i also need to buy this from Xorcom ? Not sure i understand that. <br>
3) How does the xorcom box communicate with the Asterisk Server which do not contain any PRI Card inside the system.<br><br>Much Appreciated.<br><br>Thanks and Regards,<br><br>Kaushal<br></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>Kaushal,</div><div><br></div><div>1) it's all clearly explained on their page. Looking at the video, one can tell they have 8 PRI ports on that box and 8 FXS ports and there's space for 3 further 8-channel modules that can be added. You can get an XR0111 for 8 PRIs (or XR0015 for BRI): </div>
<div><a href="http://www.xorcom.com/telephony-interfaces/astribank-models.html">http://www.xorcom.com/telephony-interfaces/astribank-models.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>2) It also states there that the Astribank's drivers have been a part of Zaptel/DAHDI since early 2006. Which means that it's MOST likely compatible with any home-baked Asterisk installation without the need to buy Xorcom Servers. </div>
<div><br></div><div>3) Lastly, it clearly uses these Astribank drivers in DAHDI to make the Astribank channel bank as an external hardware to Asterisk to talk back and forth. Since USB is a physical connection between the two, I'm sure if a server is down, the software in Astribank can detect the lack of connectivity on that USB port (i.e. voltage) as well as it might realise there's no communication between it and the Astribank driver in DAHDI on the Asterisk server. </div>
<div><br></div><div>One should not just try and get answers the easy way. You could've figured all this out in 5 mins just like I did...not that I'm saying I'm really smart ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, hope it helps :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now, I wonder what're the alternatives that people have been using for Asterisk HA other than commercially available solutions like HAAST and Astribanks assuming that kaushal is right and SCF isn't production ready yet. Anyone wants to chime in here with a solution built with readily available linux software like heartbeat , linux-ha, shared filesystems, filesystem replication and of course asterisk realtime? My requirement might be more along the lines of having several asterisk servers in a farm/pool without actually caring about the failover, so it might not even matter for me to worry about all of this, but I'm still curious as to what people are doing out there.</div>
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