Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-10 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Benny Amorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SB == Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB Hi, folks: I remain intrigued by the gap in BRI implementation SB between North America and Europe, and I wanted to get feedback SB from the list members on the matter. I'm seriously considering SB

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
The other thing that I was thinking is that I prefer PRI to analog so much that I even if it cost a hundred bucks more a month, it's still attractive to me. All that tends to support our contention that there should be a market for NA BRI support. You'd think many installations would

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
Has anyone got a PBX with spare BRI ports in it? Maybe that's a cheap way to get started. We could just hook a box up to that and work out some of the early stage stuff. I know that people with Polycom (and other) video/teleconferencing equipment often have BRI cards in their Nortel PBX or

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
Maybe, but it will probably mean writing another driver just to provide telco-side signalling -- or is it the same on each end? No, I'm reasonably positive that there's a well defined user and network side. What's the deal with PRI cards? Can you run those back-to-back? Yes, usually. ... JG

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-08 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been in contact with a guy on ebay selling 4 port bri cards who supplies a patched version of the driver that works with north american signalling. my suggestion would be for someone to just take the plunge and see if it actually works properly and

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-06 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Orders/2007/o2007-56.pdf some discouraging directions being taken by the idiots at the crtc. Essentially laying the groundwork to phase out bri completely in Canada, probably fcc has similar idiots making similar decisions as we

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Frank Ochmann wrote: List, just my two cents here on BRI cards for Asterisk - sorry if the following info was posted before/is redundant. You will find the following BRI cards for Asterisk. Depending on the chipset/Asterisk module they

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-06 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jeff Davis wrote: If there was a driver available, I'm still not sure how many installs I could sell. Verizon wants to pretend the service doesn't exist, and the largest CLEC in my area doesn't even sell it. (I even offered to buy my CLEC rep dinner and she wouldn't sell it to me.)

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Frank Ochmann
List, just my two cents here on BRI cards for Asterisk - sorry if the following info was posted before/is redundant. You will find the following BRI cards for Asterisk. Depending on the chipset/Asterisk module they will/will not support NT mode, have different numbers of ports, scale well when

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Frank Ochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: List, just my two cents here on BRI cards for Asterisk - sorry if the following info was posted before/is redundant. You will find the following BRI cards for Asterisk. Depending on the chipset/Asterisk module they will/will not support NT mode,

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Noah Miller
Verizon wants to pretend the service doesn't exist I don't know, they're advertising it: http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/voice/local/compare.xml#isdnbri - Noah ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jeff Davis wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Your rep at Sangoma? Or your reseller? That wasn't very clear. Sorry. It was Sangoma. (I would be more verbose, but I don't want to spam the list) I just wanted to make sure it wasn't stale information. This is a real chicken-and-egg problem. More

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jeff Davis
Noah Miller wrote: Verizon wants to pretend the service doesn't exist I don't know, they're advertising it: http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/voice/local/compare.xml#isdnbri Sure, but when you call someone up to buy it it's a different story. Or perhaps it was just Verizon's usual good

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Donovan
On 7/4/07, Jon Pounder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Darren Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeff Davis wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Your rep at Sangoma? Or your reseller? That wasn't very clear. Sorry. It was Sangoma. (I would be more verbose, but I don't want to spam the list) I just wanted to make sure it wasn't stale information. This

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Maybe I am looking at things too naively, but if all thats different is the signalling standard is this really a monumental effort to make a driver work with more than one standard ? I assume you would have various line encodings to deal with just like t1, so you have a driver layer that

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: most of the first level reps I have ever talked to in the last 10 years don't even know it exists, higher level people claim they don't offer it, still higher level people know what you are talking about when you say its tariffed and finally cave in to what you want.

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Donovan
On 7/5/07, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be willing to help out with a driver, but without a line and card I am not sure how productive that would be. As I've already said, I can get one, and it's not a big deal, so I'll be the test case. -Stephen- Ok, how about this for

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Dave Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/5/07, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be willing to help out with a driver, but without a line and card I am not sure how productive that would be. As I've already said, I can get one, and it's not a big deal, so I'll be the test

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Donovan
On 7/5/07, Dave Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if we need piece of reference hardware. Imagine this scenario, we order the circuit and Bell wants to turn it up. What do we turn up with? It would be great if we had something that we could plug into it and get that working just to

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jeff Davis
Jon Pounder wrote: I have a bunch of old cisco stuff with BRI ports on it but it was never meant for voice, just purely data, so I don't think its very useful for this purpose, but some of the basic signalling could probably be tested with it. is exploring some sort of back to back

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: I have a bunch of old cisco stuff with BRI ports on it but it was never meant for voice, just purely data, so I don't think its very useful for this purpose, but some of the basic signalling could probably be tested with it. is

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread David Boyd
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:08 -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: I have a bunch of old cisco stuff with BRI ports on it but it was never meant for voice, just purely data, so I don't think its very useful for this purpose, but some of the

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
Dave Donovan wrote: On 7/5/07, *Stephen Bosch* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be willing to help out with a driver, but without a line and card I am not sure how productive that would be. As I've already said, I can get one, and it's not a big

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: I have a bunch of old cisco stuff with BRI ports on it but it was never meant for voice, just purely data, so I don't think its very useful for this purpose, but some of the basic signalling could probably be tested with it. is exploring some sort of back to back

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jeff Davis wrote: I'm seeing ISDN phones on ebay for US $15-$40. Does anyone know if the line simulator and a phone would work. Then get a BRI line when there's a driver that looks like it works. You'd think it would -- otherwise the line simulator is somewhat pointless, isn't it? I saw

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen Bosch
David Boyd wrote: I seem to remember that the wan Pipeline units supported BRI, and also provided a couple of analog phone jacks. I will dig around in the basement and try to find the one that I had, if I find it, who wants it for play? Well, whoever ends up with the simulator should get

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: I have a bunch of old cisco stuff with BRI ports on it but it was never meant for voice, just purely data, so I don't think its very useful for this purpose, but some of the basic signalling could probably be tested with it. is

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread David Boyd
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 16:42 -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: David Boyd wrote: I seem to remember that the wan Pipeline units supported BRI, and also provided a couple of analog phone jacks. I will dig around in the basement and try to find the one that I had, if I find it, who wants it

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Dan Austin
David Wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 16:42 -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: David Boyd wrote: I seem to remember that the wan Pipeline units supported BRI, and also provided a couple of analog phone jacks. I will dig around in the basement and try to find the one that I had, if I find it, who

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Dan Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anyone interested take a read of this listing http://cgi.ebay.com/4x-BRI-ISDN-2B-D-Asterisk-like-Digium-B410P-VOIP_W0QQitemZ180135963254QQihZ008QQcategoryZ61841QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I already did ask for details and mentioned that this thread was underway.

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-05 Thread Jon Pounder
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Orders/2007/o2007-56.pdf some discouraging directions being taken by the idiots at the crtc. Essentially laying the groundwork to phase out bri completely in Canada, probably fcc has similar idiots making similar decisions as we discuss this. Read the

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Donovan
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

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Dave Donovan wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card... http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604415gclid=CN6Qp6abjo0CFRDXEAodGHjJjQ Whether it will

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Joe Greco
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 believe that there's no electrical difference. I know that I

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Joe Greco
Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card... To use it in the US, you need it to support US signalling. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Dave Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. I hear you loud and clear - I am in much the same situation. from what I know about the cards (which isn't much) there are 2 types just

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card... To use it in the US, you need

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card... To use it in the US, you need it to support US signalling. What do they

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Dave Donovan wrote: 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] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? Who here has used BRI in North America? And when you did,

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Michael Graves
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:46:35 -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. In the UK but ... Cheap BRI card... To use it in the

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Dave Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware. I hear you loud and clear - I am in much the same situation. from what I know about the cards (which isn't much)

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:46:35PM -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is hardware.

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Dave Donovan wrote: 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,

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:46:35PM -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well.

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:46:35PM -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as well. My key thing for me is

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Yes, that's the card I mean and yes, it supports Asterisk. The problem: I have been told -- again, this is tentative -- that

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Donovan
On 7/4/07, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:46:35PM -0400, Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Sorry I'm a little late to the thread but this question has puzzled me as

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Yes, that's the card I mean and yes, it supports Asterisk. The problem: I have been

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Yes, that's the card I mean and yes, it supports Asterisk. The problem: I have been

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jeff Davis
Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Yes, that's the card I mean and yes, it supports Asterisk. The

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Donovan
On 7/4/07, Jon Pounder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if Sangoma heard from enough interested North American users, they would write the driver. doesn't it seem strange they went to the trouble to get the fcc certification (as per their site) if it doesn't understand the north american

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Darren Wright
I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10 lines to justify a PRI. At $250, the cost and added features could justify PRI at around 4 lines.

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Darren Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10 lines to justify a PRI. At $250, the cost and added

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon Pounder wrote: Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/A500BRI is that the card you mean ? it says it supports asterisk Yes, that's the card I mean and yes, it supports Asterisk. The

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jeff Davis wrote: Jon Pounder wrote: If someone already has a customer relationship with them, ask straight out does it work in US/Canada with the BRI available here with asterisk. I just got off the phone with my sales rep. It appears I'm the third person today to ask about this. (I

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-07-04 Thread Jeff Davis
Stephen Bosch wrote: Your rep at Sangoma? Or your reseller? That wasn't very clear. Sorry. It was Sangoma. (I would be more verbose, but I don't want to spam the list) This is a real chicken-and-egg problem. More people would get BRI if there were affordable hardware for it. I would like

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
SB == Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB Hi, folks: I remain intrigued by the gap in BRI implementation SB between North America and Europe, and I wanted to get feedback SB from the list members on the matter. I'm seriously considering SB making the leap in our office. BRI is being

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Mann
you would think the telcos would be more interested in selling this to small/medium businesses that are not ready for a voice pri but it Since when to the telcos have the consumer's best interest in mind? They can sell you a PRI at full loop cost with a smaller number of channels in the

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Bosch
Jeremy Mann wrote: you would think the telcos would be more interested in selling this to small/medium businesses that are not ready for a voice pri but it Since when to the telcos have the consumer's best interest in mind? They can sell you a PRI at full loop cost with a smaller number of

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-28 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeremy Mann wrote: you would think the telcos would be more interested in selling this to small/medium businesses that are not ready for a voice pri but it Since when to the telcos have the consumer's best interest in mind? They can sell you a PRI

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-28 Thread Tom
At 02:37 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote: SB == Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB Hi, folks: I remain intrigued by the gap in BRI implementation SB between North America and Europe, and I wanted to get feedback SB from the list members on the matter. I'm seriously considering SB making the

[asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hi, folks: I remain intrigued by the gap in BRI implementation between North America and Europe, and I wanted to get feedback from the list members on the matter. I'm seriously considering making the leap in our office. In Europe, the idea that an office that does not have enough lines to

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Greg Oliver
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:32 -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: Hi, folks: Snip Thoughts? Who here has used BRI in North America? And when you did, what interface hardware did you use? -Stephen- I grew up on BRI when the internet first started taking off here. All terminated into Ascend

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Stephen Bosch
Greg Oliver wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:32 -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: Hi, folks: Snip Thoughts? Who here has used BRI in North America? And when you did, what interface hardware did you use? -Stephen- I grew up on BRI when the internet first started taking off here. All

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:49:57PM -0500, Greg Oliver wrote: With that said, the equipment to provision BRI on a class 5 switch here is another story. If the building they are delivering to does not have the right DLC cards, etc - it is usually chaeper for them to send a DS1 and pull 2 analog

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Joe Greco
Voice BRI is scarcely advertised. In these parts, Telus does indeed offer it. (I had to know what I was looking for, though.) BRI is a service the telcos would like to forget about here in the US. We ordered it at the house because we're sufficiently near a radio station that we tend to get

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread James Van Vleet
with strange needs and other then that the equipment was left alone. ;-) -James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Greco Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:43 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Stephen Bosch
Thanks for the response, Joe. Joe Greco wrote: Voice BRI is scarcely advertised. In these parts, Telus does indeed offer it. (I had to know what I was looking for, though.) BRI is a service the telcos would like to forget about here in the US. We ordered it at the house because we're

Re: [asterisk-users] North American voice BRI - Informal survey

2007-06-27 Thread Joe Greco
Thanks for the response, Joe. n/p. I figure I'm probably one of a small number of people with such a taste for suffering at the hands of the telco. Yeah -- as I mentioned, it's not like the Canadian telcos are announcing it from the rooftops, either. We had some CLEC's offering it for a