I realize that this is slightly off-topic, but I'm not sure where to ask... And since it does have some overlap with voip...
I'm looking for an option to terminate a fair number of T1 channels into a freebsd box. These for HDLC (or PPP) encapsulated data. In short, we're buying a T1 PtP loop from us to the customer and using it for voice and data.
I really would like to avoid having a large pile of boxes just terminating T1's. Everything I'm finding does a maximum of about 4T1's per U, or is really expensive.
I would *love* to find a multiport T1 card for FreeBSD which does data well and that we can put multiple ones in the same chassis. The other, probably preferred, option would be a Channelized DS3 card for FreeBSD which we can then either just take a DS3 from the ILEC or put a 1U DS3 mux in.
Does such a beast exist? What options are available for multiport T1 cards or Channelized (to the T1 level) DS3 cards which work with FreeBSD?
I'm aware of the Digium 4 port cards, but I understand they may have data issues, plus I'm not sure about putting more than one in a box ... It sounds like this isn't a possibility.
It sounds like the sangoma 4 port card works well for data but I'm not sure about FreeBSD suport.
Can anyone shed any more light on this?
-forrest
Hooo boy, this concept has been worked over twice in the last year and a half, with no real progress or consensus.
There is at least one company that can do this from a hardware perspective (http://www.sbei.net), but my take on things is that any person/company willing to fund the integration into Asterisk is not interested in making such code available back to the community. In any case, there are few people who need a DS3's worth of TDM, so it's a very narrow niche.
Follow these threads to find out who's interested in this discussion:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-December/029309.html
and then about a year later:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2004-November/007390.html
JT
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