On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:16:10PM -1000, Mark Coccimiglio said: > I'm seeing Diva Server V-BRI running close to $1K/card. There are other > Diva cards running around $700. A little pricy but not impossible to > do. I remember back in the 90's I had ISDN into my home for internet > access. The netgear router I used cost me about $350 back then, and it > worked great. I still have it as a matter of fact. However internet > access is not what I need. I'm still waiting for the ILEC > (HawaiianTelcom) to get back to me to find out if it is even possible to > do BRI into my office. The nearest ISDN capable CO is located a bit of > a distance from my office (actually its closer to my home). The local > CO dosen't have BRI capablities. From what I'm hearing when you bundle > together all the costs BRI & PRI are gonna be close in price (from a > H/W point of view.) Maybe I should just look into going the PRI route > and try to find some people willing to buy on my extra DiD's? Any one > what a phone number in Hawaii? :) Its such a shame I can't leave well > enough alone and suck it up on POTS (eck). I'll keep you informed as to > my progress (or lack there of). >From my research, the problem with PRI's is that you generally pay a lot for the circuit - especially if you only need 8 channels or so. While you can go ahead and get a full PRI for not much more than a partial PRI, the cost of the taxes on the unused channels kills the budget when you look at a 2 year cost.
I found a telcom broker in San Francisco that works with all the top providers, and while a lot of the competitors to the ILEC's had lower up-front prices, they got you by not including the costs of the taxes and had other fees too that killed the savings. This was especially true for less than 2 year commitments. Telco's hate BRI's because it takes more cable pairs and repeater hardware when you need more than one. In some cases they end up putting in a T1 / micro DLC. You also can't do DSL over an ISDN BRI line. BTW, a little birdie told me that Sangoma is working on a BRI card. Yeah! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
