Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware.
On 6/27/07, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thoughts? Who here has used BRI in North America? And when you did, what > interface hardware did you use? Well, at the time, there was pretty much nothing that was considered to be "reliably" supported by Asterisk for NA BRI. I picked up an Adtran Atlas 550 with a 4BRI-U interface and an octal FXS, and I use the unit's built-in T1 network port to connect to an Asterisk box. This works nicely, except for the things for which it doesn't work nicely. The box is fundamentally being used as a BRI<->PRI translator, but gives me some neat extras. .....
Has anyone else seen a working hardware solution that didn't cost an arm and a leg? It seems to me that a BRI card should cost less than $100. I think I remember a German friend telling me that they go for around $40 dollars. I know that I can get a BRI with voice service out of Bell. I think they have to provide it because of the CRTC tariffs. The thing that has stopped me from trying it in the past is the uncertainty around hardware. Do I understand correctly that NA (North American?) BRI is different from the European version and that European hardware won't work? If I could get a card for a few hundred bucks then I'd be willing to give this a shot. Unfortunately, I can't afford a few grand for the Adtran setup described, although it does sound cool and the BRI<->PRI conversion approach is a clever way of overcoming the hardware scarcity. For the number of times that I see people trying to get digital style features out of analog lines, and banging their head against the wall, I'd love to get a BRI working and be able to tell you all how it worked out. Dave
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