Hello Tom,

Tom Chadwin wrote:
> I might be able to help. Our ISDN circuits are plugged into live PBXs
> at the mo, so I'm not sure how I could fully test.

You could at least ensure that the driver detects your card properly and
loads. Once this is the case it would be up to you when you would want
to switch one connection to this card (or if you would prefer getting
another BRI installed).

>> What are your requirements to ISDN?
> 
> We have three offices, two with BRI, one with PRI. I believe I can
> recommend that the smallest switches to analogue (Asterisk + analogue
> card), but the other two have elderly proprietary PBXs in place. I am
> investigating replacing these with Asterisk, and have had little joy
> with a test roll-out of VoIP. I am therefore simply trying to get a
> better picture of what other options we have, perhaps with Asterisk +
> ISDN.

If you have just one BRI per office (2 lines), you could simply buy an
HFC-based card and you are ready to go. That would be the fastest and
simplest solution.

What kind of hardware (board/system) do you have in mind? A net5501? Or
a Via board?

> We have the Diva card because it was installed in our old mail server
> to allow unified fax and SMS. I was wondering how easy it would be to
> use this card to rig up a demonstration solution.

For demo purposes I'd take a standard PC, get the software installed and
run the demo. If this works and people are happy, you can still decide
if you would want to run on embedded hardware with Astlinux + customized
driver set to support your Diva card or go with Astlinux + hfc card.

regards,

Ingmar

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