RE: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-07 Thread Troy Settle

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 GS102 question
 
 
 At 8:15 PM -0500 12/4/03, Jim Flagg wrote:
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 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and 
 GS102 question
 
 
   We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the 
 fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
 T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the 
 POTS plus data.
 
 Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are 
 getting this from?
 Does anybody else have a setup like this?
 
 
 Very interesting.  I've had now two fights with providers (Verizon 
 and SBC) who would not offer such a service, claiming that it was 
 impossible to hybridize a PRI.  I think that's a great offering, 
 and of course, it is possible, and especially appealing for Asterisk 
 users.
 
 I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are 
 getting such a service.
 

John,

Check the front of your local phonebook for CLEC listings.  In your
area, I'd expect to find at a bunch listed, and at least two or three
that are facilities based, capable of serving most areas in the
Willamette Valley (Vancouver down to Eugene).  If not, perhaps there's a
good business for you to investigate. =D

Our CLEC here, KMC Telecom, does the hybrid T1 thing as a matter of
course.  I can have a 6x6 system delivered to my customers for less than
$400/month (.09/local connect), or unlimited local outbound for less
than $500/month.

KMC even provides the customer with a Lucent Connectreach, which breaks
out the POTS lines and can hand off the data either as a FT1 or
Ethernet.  I'd like to play with using * to do it all, but need to find
a qualified guinea pig first.

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-07 Thread John Breeden


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 Very interesting.  I've had now two fights with providers (Verizon
 and SBC) who would not offer such a service, claiming that it was
 impossible to hybridize a PRI.  I think that's a great offering,
 and of course, it is possible, and especially appealing for Asterisk
 users.

 I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are
 getting such a service.

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Unless the world o' telecom has changed there really isn't such a thing as a
Hybrid PRI. You can order a PRI with either voice only, data only or
voice+data. I used to order them all the time from GTE (now Verzion) when I
ran an ISP here in Hawaii a few years back. We ordered voice+data to support
was called data over voice.

The only difference between an ISDN voice or data call is what is sent over
the d channel during call setup (voice/data and 56k/64k).

GTE used to charge by the minute for local isdn data calls but isdn voice
calls were free. The Livingston Portmasters we used as access servers would
answer the inbound call as a voice call and then look at the inbound data
stream. If it was ppp the Portmaster would just process it as ppp data. It
was a way of getting around gte's per minute data call charges. As far as
GTE's switches (and CDR records) were concerned it was just a voice call.

The person who you talked to at Verizon probably had no idea what hybrid
was so they just said as usual that it didn't exist. Hell, most Telco sales
I've experienced still don't even know that ISDN exists :-)

Try ordering a data PRI and add voice or voice PRI and add data, either will
work. I'll bet they are two different tariffs :-)

To get 768k of data out of a pri you would need to bond 12 channels via
multilink-ppp (rfc1618 as I recall). The linux 2.4 kernel supports
multilink-ppp (mlpppd) over a number of different phy layers.

I'm new * and just got my first * up and running (*very* cool so far, needs
doc writers though :-). I'm expecting my GS phones Monday from pulver, I've
never seen a T100P. I assume you setup the T100P to use X number of channels
for voice and the remaining go to mlpppd for data.

I'm guessing here but I assume you would have a hunt group assigned to the
voice pri channels for inbound voice calls. If you wanted inbound data you
would need a second hunt group assigned to the data channels.

Is that a good guess Walker? :-)

John Breeden
Plum Hall, Inc.
Hawaii

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-05 Thread Ariel Batista

We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the
  fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
  T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the
  POTS plus data.
  
  Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are
  getting this from?
  Does anybody else have a setup like this?

  I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are
  getting such a service.
 
  JT

Just wanted to say our PRI provider here in South Florida has this Hybrid
system too!  They are suppose to be offering this setup all over the US.
There's is 6 voice channels and 512K Data!  There called Allegiance Telecom,
Inc.  We have a full PRI from them.  But out sister company has there
Hybrid!  Works great!

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-05 Thread Walker Haddock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:15:21PM -0500, Jim Flagg wrote:
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 Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:54 PM
 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question
 
 
  We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the fax) and 768K 
  data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
 T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus data.
 
 Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are getting this from?
 Does anybody else have a setup like this?

Xspedius

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-05 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:34, Jim Flagg wrote:
  Original Message - 
 From: Ariel Batista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question
 
 
  
  We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the
fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the
POTS plus data.

Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are
getting this from?
Does anybody else have a setup like this?
  
I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are
getting such a service.
   
JT
  
  Just wanted to say our PRI provider here in South Florida has this Hybrid
  system too!  They are suppose to be offering this setup all over the US.
  There's is 6 voice channels and 512K Data!  There called Allegiance Telecom,
  Inc.  We have a full PRI from them.  But out sister company has there
  Hybrid!  Works great!
 
 Yes, I am aware of these types of setups.  I have used http://www.cbeyond.com.
 They are one of the few that dynamically vary the bandwidth between voice and
 internet based upon how many calls are in progress.  If no calls are in progress
 the whole 1.5Mb is available for internet connections.
 
 The part that intrigued me was, It terminates into a T100P, implying that there are
 no channel banks between the ISP provided equipment and the T100P.  I strait
 digital T1 connection.  It seems like this would require some modifications to 
 Asterisk
 and some coordination with the telephone/internet provider.  That's what I was
 interested in.

Basically it works like having ISDN dialup with a lot of bonding. When
asterisk notices more than X lines idle, it dials up the other side and
sends it off to ZapRAS to bond the channels in. If asterisk notices less
than X channels free, it disconnects one of the ZapRAS channels.
Bandwidth is then in units of 64K connections.
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-05 Thread Harry McGregor
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 10:18, Walker Haddock wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:15:21PM -0500, Jim Flagg wrote:
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  From: Walker Haddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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  Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question
  
  
   We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the fax) and 768K 
   data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
  T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus data.
  
  Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are getting this from?
  Does anybody else have a setup like this?
 
 Xspedius

I know that Time Warner Telecom (www.twtelecom.com) also provides a
mixed data/voice burstable PRI T1 with their VersiPak service.  I have
installed a number of both channelized/channel banked VersiPaks and one
PRI versipak (though it was not with Asterisk, it's connected to an
InterTel system).  The non-PRI based versipak is a bit cheaper, but you
don't get the PRI abilities.  They will do channelized hand over via T1
or will break out to POTs for you.

It's really a nice product, and well priced.  For one client, we picked
up a 12 Voice channel/ 768K Internet PRI with data burstable almost all
the way to 1.544mbit based on voice channel use.  Voice hand over was
via a single PRI, and data hand over was via fast eithernet.  Pricing
with a 3 year contract was below $800/month, in Tucson AZ.

Harry

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-05 Thread Ray Burkholder
 
 I know that Time Warner Telecom (www.twtelecom.com) also provides a
 mixed data/voice burstable PRI T1 with their VersiPak service.  I have
 installed a number of both channelized/channel banked 
 VersiPaks and one
 PRI versipak (though it was not with Asterisk, it's connected to an
 InterTel system).  The non-PRI based versipak is a bit 
 cheaper, but you
 don't get the PRI abilities.  They will do channelized hand 
 over via T1
 or will break out to POTs for you.
 
 It's really a nice product, and well priced.  For one client, 
 we picked
 up a 12 Voice channel/ 768K Internet PRI with data burstable 
 almost all
 the way to 1.544mbit based on voice channel use.  Voice hand over was
 via a single PRI, and data hand over was via fast eithernet.  Pricing
 with a 3 year contract was below $800/month, in Tucson AZ.
 


What box or boxes do they use on either end to handle the dynamic sizing on
the voice/data channels?

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[Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Oster
Hi All.

I'm working on an * configuration.  We require 8 inbound POTS lines, and 
CT1 or PRI seems like it will be
quite expensive at that level.  I've read that a T1 Channelbank plus 
the  T100P would be a (the?) way to go
for this situation.  What is the recommended channelbank for use in this 
scenario?  From searching the archives
I see a lot of suggestions to get a channelbank from ebay.  I would 
prefer to be able to use new products
so I can easily duplicate the setup for other branch offices in my company.

My second question relatees to the Grandstream phones.  When they are a 
member of a queue group, I get a loud
annoying ring in the handset when its in use and another call comes in 
on the queue.

Is there a way to enforce 1 call per phone in sip.conf?  Either that or 
a way to tell the GS102 to return busy when
* trys to send them a call.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Walker Haddock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:26:49PM -0600, Paul Oster wrote:
 Hi All.
 
 I'm working on an * configuration.  We require 8 inbound POTS lines, and 
 CT1 or PRI seems like it will be

We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the fax) and 768K data.  
It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was 
better than the POTS plus data.

 quite expensive at that level.  I've read that a T1 Channelbank plus 
 the  T100P would be a (the?) way to go
 for this situation.  What is the recommended channelbank for use in this 
 scenario?  From searching the archives
 I see a lot of suggestions to get a channelbank from ebay.  I would 
 prefer to be able to use new products
 so I can easily duplicate the setup for other branch offices in my company.
 
We're not using a channel bank.  I have one port on a TDM card for the fax machine.

 
 My second question relatees to the Grandstream phones.  When they are a 
 member of a queue group, I get a loud
 annoying ring in the handset when its in use and another call comes in 
 on the queue.
 
 Is there a way to enforce 1 call per phone in sip.conf?  Either that or 
 a way to tell the GS102 to return busy when
 * trys to send them a call.

You need to use the latest CVS, it includes the work done by Paul Lieu.  It works 
great.  You just configure your sip.conf according to the notes in the bug report:

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=408

It solved my GS BT102 call waiting ring in ear problem!

Walker
 
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Moore
I just went through this cycle. I did go ebay and went with a Carrier Access 
Access Bank I, since I still haven't decided if this will be our production 
system and I didn't want to invest too much to find out. After fighting with it 
all day today, I would not recommend the AB1 for this application -- both 
inbound and outbound calling, because the AB1 doesn't support call supervision 
on the inbound fxo ports. And their tech support says that Carrier Access does 
not sell a model with call sup. There are various work arounds, but I think not 
matter what it would be more functional to have a channel bank that supports 
call sup. I also think there are issues with some CBs and caller ID. If you 
want caller ID make sure to ask that it is supported and with which cards.

Adtran seems to be the most recommended vendor on the list. Many refs to TA 
750s.
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Office 620.221.5100
Fax 620.221.0508


Quoting Paul Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi All.
 
 I'm working on an * configuration.  We require 8 inbound POTS lines, and 
 CT1 or PRI seems like it will be
 quite expensive at that level.  I've read that a T1 Channelbank plus 
 the  T100P would be a (the?) way to go
 for this situation.  What is the recommended channelbank for use in this 
 scenario?  From searching the archives
 I see a lot of suggestions to get a channelbank from ebay.  I would 
 prefer to be able to use new products
 so I can easily duplicate the setup for other branch offices in my company.
 
 My second question relatees to the Grandstream phones.  When they are a 
 member of a queue group, I get a loud
 annoying ring in the handset when its in use and another call comes in 
 on the queue.
 
 Is there a way to enforce 1 call per phone in sip.conf?  Either that or 
 a way to tell the GS102 to return busy when
 * trys to send them a call.
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Moore
I looked at the same idea, but since we are not in a major metro area we 
couldn't get a mixed data/voice circuit. If a local number isn't necessary (say 
for 800# inbound) you could also go with a VoIP provider like Vonage for PSTN 
connectivity which would also eleminate the need for a channel bank (or even 
the T1 card)
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Quoting Walker Haddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:26:49PM -0600, Paul Oster wrote:
  Hi All.
  
  I'm working on an * configuration.  We require 8 inbound POTS lines, and 
  CT1 or PRI seems like it will be
 
 We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the fax) and
 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a T100P.  It is working
 great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus data.
 
  quite expensive at that level.  I've read that a T1 Channelbank plus 
  the  T100P would be a (the?) way to go
  for this situation.  What is the recommended channelbank for use in this 
  scenario?  From searching the archives
  I see a lot of suggestions to get a channelbank from ebay.  I would 
  prefer to be able to use new products
  so I can easily duplicate the setup for other branch offices in my
 company.
  
 We're not using a channel bank.  I have one port on a TDM card for the fax
 machine.
 
  
  My second question relatees to the Grandstream phones.  When they are a 
  member of a queue group, I get a loud
  annoying ring in the handset when its in use and another call comes in 
  on the queue.
  
  Is there a way to enforce 1 call per phone in sip.conf?  Either that or 
  a way to tell the GS102 to return busy when
  * trys to send them a call.
 
 You need to use the latest CVS, it includes the work done by Paul Lieu.  It
 works great.  You just configure your sip.conf according to the notes in the
 bug report:
 
 http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=408
 
 It solved my GS BT102 call waiting ring in ear problem!
 
 Walker
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  Paul M. Oster
  
  
  
  
  
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Jim Flagg
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question


 We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the fax) and 768K 
 data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus data.

Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are getting this from?
Does anybody else have a setup like this?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread John Todd
At 8:15 PM -0500 12/4/03, Jim Flagg wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Walker Haddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

 We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the 
fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus data.

Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are getting this from?
Does anybody else have a setup like this?


Very interesting.  I've had now two fights with providers (Verizon 
and SBC) who would not offer such a service, claiming that it was 
impossible to hybridize a PRI.  I think that's a great offering, 
and of course, it is possible, and especially appealing for Asterisk 
users.

I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are 
getting such a service.

JT
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread TC

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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question


 I just went through this cycle. I did go ebay and went with a Carrier
Access
 Access Bank I, since I still haven't decided if this will be our
production
 system and I didn't want to invest too much to find out. After fighting
with it
 all day today, I would not recommend the AB1 for this application -- both
 inbound and outbound calling, because the AB1 doesn't support call
supervision
 on the inbound fxo ports. And their tech support says that Carrier Access
does
 not sell a model with call sup.
I am sorry but that CAC rep is on Crack  ;), I have em installed perfect
gear
ADIT 600 from Carrier Access most certainly does supprt Far End Disconnect
(watch the wrap)
http://www.carrieraccess.com/dbfiles/marketing/card_specsheets_pdf/fxo_dpt_8
channel_voice_service_card_spec_sheet.pdf

please see http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Hardware
for first person experience with various CBs



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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Eric Wieling
i-55.net which is a regional ISP for Louisiana, Mississippi and maybe 
one or two other nearby states provide us with a PRI (6 channels) and 
384K internet service over a single T-1 line.  They provide the service 
as a PRI and Ethernet Internet out of their Adtran channel bank.  We 
asked for the service to be provided this way, I'm sure they could have 
terminated both into our T100P if we had asked.  They are a small enough 
company that they actually care about their customers, but large enough 
to be an ISP and CLEC (their CLEC stuff is fairly recent) and provide 
good service.

We've had the service for a week or two.  This is a new office for us 
and it's not staffed yet.  There have been some annoying installation 
and configuration issues, but they worked with us to resolve them 
quickly.  The setup was not perfect, but if we had been using BellSouth 
of one of the big guys we would not have had any of those issues 
resolved by now.

When we added two additional channels for our PRI a couple of days after 
it was turned up someone didn't map the channels in the local Adtran 
unit and so those channels did not work.  Took 24 hours to resolve. 
Since the office is not staffed we did NOT push for a fast fix.  They 
took about 24 hours from the time we placed the order for additional 
channels until they turned them up, then an additional 24 hrs to fix the 
maping problem.  When I've dealt with RBOCS they spent at least two days 
just blaiming our equipment before they even tried to fix the problem, 
and that was with us ecsalating the issue with them.

I've been very happy with i-55.net.  Granted, they REALLY want to 
contract for our other current offices so they are treating us well, but 
I don't thing that is the major reason for our good support and service. 
 They were priced less that most of the other companies I've worked with.

John Todd wrote:
At 8:15 PM -0500 12/4/03, Jim Flagg wrote:

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From: Walker Haddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 
question


 We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the 
fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the POTS plus 
data.

Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are getting 
this from?
Does anybody else have a setup like this?


Very interesting.  I've had now two fights with providers (Verizon and 
SBC) who would not offer such a service, claiming that it was 
impossible to hybridize a PRI.  I think that's a great offering, and 
of course, it is possible, and especially appealing for Asterisk users.

I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are getting 
such a service.

JT
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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Channelbank Recomendation and GS102 question

2003-12-04 Thread Ray Burkholder
In what areas are you looking for the hybrid service?

Ray Burkholder
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   We have an installation with 9 inbound voice channels (one is the 
 fax) and 768K data.  It is a Hybrid PRI.  It terminates into a
 T100P.  It is working great!  The cost was better than the 
 POTS plus data.
 
 Can I ask what Telephone/Internet service provider you are 
 getting this from?
 Does anybody else have a setup like this?

 I, too, would be interested in hearing from what vendor you are 
 getting such a service.
 
 JT


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