On 17 May 2005, at 02:21, Corey Hickey wrote:
Hello,
The company I work for deploys and manages telecom hardware for small- to
medium-sized businesses. My boss has asked me to investigate Asterisk as a
possible PBX for deploying to customers along with IP phones. The general
layout would be:
-------------- ---------- | trunk | ---------- | LAN, | | (T1/analogs/ | =======> | Asterisk | =========> |IP phones | | etc.) | ---------- ---------- --------------
I'm building a test machine right now to experiment with using one of our
analog lines. We have two spare Dialogic D/42NS cards, and I was hoping I
would make one of them work. Has anyone tried that model? I haven't found
any information, good or bad.
The supported hardware list on asterisk.org has the D/41JCT-LS. Is that a
very similar card? Could I "pretend" the D/42NS is a D/41JCT-LS?
The advice I was given when I started down the same line a year ago was:
Forget the dialogic, the drivers are old and not free and almost no- one is
using them. You are better off just buying a well supported card (ideally
from Digium).
There are technical and legal reasons why the Dialogics don't fit
into the Asterisk world view - as such even if you do get it to work
it won't be representative of what you'd actually install for a customer.
What I did was to build a system that was 100% voip using spare old hardware and played with it until I was comfortable with Asterisk, then splashed out on an E1 card and some dedicated hardware.
Turned out fine for us.
Tim
Thanks, Corey
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