Instead you could always get a SIP/IAX provider.
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Jon Pounder wrote: > Michael Higgins wrote: > > At least here in Canada - DSL just seems to have killed BRI - you > practically have to know the secret handshake to even be allowed to > provision one any more. It killed it as an internet transport which > was > its most widespread use, however its many benefits as a digital phone > line are being largely ignored. > > I barked up the same tree you are barking for a while and just gave > up - > lots of "you could buy this and try it", but no proven solution. > Kind of > expensive to get a line put in and buy hardware for a maybe. Years ago > we had tons of BRI circuits around I could have tried this on, but > thats > long gone. > > >> Folks -- >> >> First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the >> culture of the list. I read the recent post about improvement to >> the quality of posts with some amusement and full agreement. The >> problem is a big and very real one. I hope I'm not deepening it. >> >> But my question isn't explicitly asked with this subject line or >> definitively answered in the archives -- that I have found. >> >> What I did find left me with the impression that USA 'BRI', uh, >> '2B1Q' protocol(?) is not supported by *any* hardware vendor, at >> all, period, nor is it tested and proved in the software... >> stack(?), in one related branch or another on the OS side. >> >> A couple of direct inquiries to card vendors have dead-ended with a >> flat "no", or requests for development funds(!) -- apparently there >> is code for one card, one vendor, that runs against 'bristuff', or >> did at one time, but wasn't maintained through several Asterisk >> releases (if the code was even released to the community... IDK). >> >> Is this common, that someone codes to their chip on their card and >> sells it to one or two consumers, then lets it drop and never gives >> the code up for continued development? (It seems contrary to GNU/ >> Linux licensing conventions, but, again, I'm not paid as a software >> developer. I just think they might have sold more cards with a less >> proprietary approach.) >> >> Anyway, can I, with confidence, state (to the $employer) that >> Asterisk on linux via USA 'BRI' digital lines simply isn't >> possible? (In that, obviously, I can't pay for development nor do >> beta testing, each with vague hope that it might work okay >> someday...) >> >> If this is the case, then I must use multiple analog lines to >> access PSTN, or pay premium for 'PRI' pipes (80% of which we will >> never need)... is that about correct? >> >> Thanks in advance for any pointers, specific RTFM suggestions, any >> help appreciated. >> >> If there is a different list to post this query to, I'm not (yet) >> aware of it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
