Hi Olivier, so if you say that Patton hardware is bad documented, hard to configured and without echo canceller I think it is useless...don't you think? Unless it is much more reliable (no crashes at all)....
Olivier wrote: > > > 2009/3/2 Giorgio Incantalupo <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Hi all, > > I've been using telephone cards for 4-5 years and now I'm considering > the Patton gateways. What are the pro and cons of Patton stuff > compared > to internal cards in a production system? Someone say external gateway > are better because has no echo but have a longer delay when > placing calls. > Any suggestion appreciated. > > > I would be cautious regarding echo performance, as enhanced echo > cancelling software are now available on some telephony cards (HPEC, > OSLEC, ...) and I can't see at the moment (experience will tell) why > Patton gateways would perform any better or worse than telephony > cards. I would be very curious to read other testimonies on that. > > On another topic, I would say those gateway are not so easy to configure : > - a web server is embeded but it is not documented anywhere and it's > GUI is far from natural, > - alternatively, you can edit a config file for which a huge doc is > available but, as this boxes are not specifically designed to work > with Asterisk, doc is not easy to understand (it took me 3 days to > find how to register a gateway to an Asterisk server). > > Anyway, configuring ISDN ports is easy and the range of possibilities > is larger than with telephony cards : > - BRI/PRI, TE/NT, PtP/PtmP : every case is supported (BRI/NT/PtmP is > not in latest libpri, for instance) > - routing seems very powerful. > > > In the long run, I would preferably use telephony cards (or products) > manufactered by companies directly contributing to Asterisk source > code development (Digium, Xorcom, ...), and build telephony gateways > with Asterisk, those telephony cards and off-the-shelf components, but > I'm not sure conditions are met to do it now. > > That's why I'm also using Patton gateways at the moment and I think > it's good to consider using them. > > Hope this helps. > > > > > Thank you! > > Giorgio > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 -- _________________________________________________ Giorgio Incantalupo, mailto:[email protected] FG&A srl - http://www.fgasoftware.com - vo...@work - The Agile PBX http://www.voiceatwork.eu Tel: 02997663.14, Fax: 0291390172 _______________________________________________ -- 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
