> Hi Joe, > > In your mail you wrote that > > "I've heard a few stories that reported partial success with an Eicon > Diva Server card, but always with the caveat that "it doesn't work quite > right" or something along those lines." > > I can ensure you that this is not the case. We are implementing a Diva > Server card in our call centre with Asterisk - so it works perfectly on > both BRI and PRI lines. > > You need to follow the instructions here though. > http://www.eicon.com/support/helpweb/slnxen/asterisk.asp
Happy to hear it... it's just depressing how poorly BRI is supported in general here in the States though. I know a number of folks who do (or did) BRI for telephony going back a number of years (mid '90's at least) and I've yet to hear of one who succeeded in hooking one up to Asterisk without issue, though there are a few, as I mentioned, who reported partial success with the Eicon. BRI is becoming more poorly supported as time goes on by CPE mfrs, and while there was at one time a loose race to implement features such as Caller-ID delivery to POTS ports on ISDN CPE, now there doesn't appear to be much even happening in the way of development of new CPE. This pretty much matches the way it is being supported by the telcos, who do not want to offer any of the powerful capabilities that could be possible over BRI. By offering only "packages" that implement basic functionality, and requiring that you buy services a-la-carte if you want to do anything odd like (shudder) get an extra DN or ten, and pricing a-la-carte services sky-high, they've guaranteed that it isn't competitive with PRI - but also guaranteed that it isn't all that useful to anyone, either. It's insane that the only solution that seems to work for people is a $1K-range card. It's good that it works perfectly for you; I've yet to meet anyone else who has made that claim, as the reports I've seen are all of partial success. For a long time, I thought I was going to have to go get a Cisco gateway with a VIC-2BRI or something like that, but that scared me too. :-) So I still like my (very pricey) solution with the Adtran. It's nice and it works so far (caveat, haven't got it working with * yet). More interestingly, it can act as either network or user, meaning I can hook up existing devices such as the USR I-Modem to it, and direct only a single B channel over there... now I've just got to find out what happens when I configure up its PRI and hook it up to *. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ --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
