Re: [Asterisk-Users] G729 quality

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Jan Rychter wrote: Does G.729 provide better voice quality than GSM? (a question for people who have tried both) It depends. The bit rate of G.729 is a lot lower, so it starts with a disadvantage. To overcome that, they made it a lot more complex and tuned to the human voice. The result is for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Matthew John Darnell wrote: Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run i

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Poll - Would you pay $30-$50 for high qualityspeech synthesis?

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Jeff Noxon wrote: Many of you are familiar with how lousy Festival sounds. AT&T has a product, NaturalVoices, that sounds much better. There are male & female voice fonts for US/UK/Indian English, French, Spanish, and German. I am considering offering a linux-based text-to-speech engine based on

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: At 10:11 2003-07-16 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: if you want a synthetic voice to sound natural you will have to tell the software the _intent_ of the words not just the words. You would need a markup language for that I said yes The W3C has a TTS markup language,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 R2 on Asterisk

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Underwood
LQ (Asterisk) wrote: Dear fellows, I need to use Asterisk with an E1 card with CAS R2 signalling for Argentina. I know that the E100P don't support it right now. Correct Does anybody developing R2 drivers? Yes. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 R2 on Asterisk

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Underwood
John Todd wrote: LQ (Asterisk) wrote: Dear fellows, I need to use Asterisk with an E1 card with CAS R2 signalling for Argentina. I know that the E100P don't support it right now. Correct Does anybody developing R2 drivers? Yes. Interestingly terse reply; perhaps you can be more specific?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] serious dtmf recognition problem.

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Joe, Most auto-dialers will accept commas in the dial string, and insert delays where they occur. Will that work for you? Its normally used to insert a delay after a 9 on a PBX, to get a stable outside line before further dialing. Regards, Steve Joe Antkowiak wrote: Hi, I am using a chann

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Techfone VOIP phone

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Underwood
That looks a bit like this one: http://www.planet.com.tw/product/product_intro.php?menu_id=3 I've also seen it with Micronet and a couple of other well known Taiwanese networking company's names on it. I don't know who makes it, though. It seems well made. Its pretty ugly (some would say "styl

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now!

2003-07-19 Thread Steve Underwood
David Boreham wrote: P.S. Please do not answer again that this setup cannot work. In this moment I cannot accept such an answer. Your e-mail made me chuckle. When I worked at Octel/Lucent in the mid-90's we were constantly sniped at for trying to make a voicemail system which ran on g

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Techfone VOIP phone

2003-07-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Lambert wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:01:52AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: That looks a bit like this one: http://www.planet.com.tw/product/product_intro.php?menu_id=3 rather expensive to me. These things have less DSP and compute to do than an ADSL modem, and should cost no more

[Asterisk-Users] TE410P startup

2003-07-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I put a TE410P card in a machine (a Tyan 2665 with 2x2.4GHz Xeons). A red flashing light circles around the 4 RJ48C sockets. I load the wct4xxp driver, and the flashing light stops. Whether I connect an E1 signal or not, no lights are shown, and no alarms are reports in the /proc/zaptel/XX

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P startup

2003-07-27 Thread Steve Underwood
OK Funny guy, Mark Spencer wrote: I put a TE410P card in a machine (a Tyan 2665 with 2x2.4GHz Xeons). A red flashing light circles around the 4 RJ48C sockets. I load the wct4xxp driver, and the flashing light stops. Whether I connect an E1 signal or not, no lights are shown, and no alarms are rep

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Semi-newbie question "Softswitch" and Asterisk- Is there a difference?

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Q: What's the difference between Asterisk and a softswitch A: About $100,000 Soft switch - Hard to afford! Regards, Steve Bruce Ferrell wrote: I've been working in the VoIP industry for just a bit over a year now... Mostly taking care of the underlying systems. I've now reached the point whe

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Matthew, That argument doesn't seem to work. I don't hear many complaints here about the cost of the VoiceAge codec. It's the clunkiness of the protection scheme people don't like. It's only the protection scheme that seems to be making people want to dump the VoiceAge code. Remember how Mi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Eric Wieling wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:37, Mark Spencer wrote: Couldn't agree more. The G.729 codec is so unDigium-like... don't buy it is my recommendation. I don't think anybody buys G.729 just to have it. They buy it because they *have* to have it. And we sell it because they

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple E1 configuration question

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Stingel wrote: Hi all- This question is for those familiar with EuroISDN setup. I have a customer in Europe where I'm going to install an asterisk based system with 4 E1's. The customer will configure them all in one large hunt group. My question is about the E1 channel configuration. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] New SIP Phone

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
John Todd wrote: Are they selling the Grandstream? They don't seem to actually say that; they only say that the Grandstream is the only phone they tested (other than their own system? not clear.) A picture paints a thousand words, they say: http://www.sipphone.com/tiki-index.php?page=Order%20

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Kim C. Callis wrote: I was reading on www.vovida.org/applications/downloads/G729A/ (home of VOCAL) pages, and that there is a free license use for non-commercial for G.729A. Is that usable under Asterisk or strictly a Vovida offering? This was a publicity stunt by VoiceAge, which Cisco/Vovida seem

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Underwood wrote: The ITU G.729 code is pretty much useless for real world use. It is very slow. It gets the right answers, but not by efficient means. All the voice codec reference code I have seen is like this. The people who develop these things *have* to write an efficient version, as

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Dan wrote: Hi Steve Steve Underwood wrote: 06.10 isn't that great a codec, though. I don't think it is used very much on the GSM networks these days. Most of the time they use the enhanced full rate (EFR) or half rate codecs. What do you mean by "isn't a great cod

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fair comparison

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Kim C. Callis wrote: I was trying to do a little searching to see if there has even been a comparison between Asterisk and VOCAL or any of the other OSS packages? "Practical Voice Over IP using VOCAL" published by O'Reilly and Associates, attempts to make a strong case about how scalable VOCAL. Of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Dan, Dan wrote: - Original Message - From: "Steve Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec Steve Underwood wrote: After writing this I got curious about

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Monitor application temporary hack

2003-08-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Brian West wrote: bkw PS: The worse that can happen is it can't be used in court. I though that tended to be the best that could happen :-) Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 problems

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Paulo Mannheimer wrote: Hi, I'm testing an E1 with E&M signaling. Some of the problems I'm running into are the following: 1) if I try to configure any channel above channel 15, I start getting a "multiframe alignment error" on my telco test equipment. So I have my zaptel file only configure

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 PRI's in Australia

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Martin, Strange. After I fixed the bugs that screwed up the top half of the timeslots in CAS mode, I had no trouble with my E400P framing. I used it with and without CRC4, and had no trouble of that kind. I had some weird stuff with an E100P, but I think that was something to do with the ear

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 problems

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Do people actually do the *ANI*DNIS* thing on E1s? I've never seen that. E1s are a real pain for anything but PRI or SS7. There is so little standardisation. A place I used to work has a substantial team turning out new signalling protocol state machines for each customer of its E1 muxes. Rega

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 problems

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
, and compile them directly down to ROM tables). Either way you build a state machine. Regards, Steve Martin Pycko wrote: Maybe if they'd write the PRI stack in C instead of making a state machine they woun'd need to make adjustments so often. regards Martin On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Steve Under

Re: [Asterisk-Users] frames/packet

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Paul Lambert wrote: "Not yet." implies that it is coming. Look at the latency it causes, and you will see its not that useful. I know it would help on Internet connections such as fixed wireless and cable modem where packet rate is an issue. 20ms translates to 50 packets/sec. 30ms per block c

Re: [Asterisk-Users] frames/packet

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
That is not just true of IAX. There appears to be substantial amount of RTP traffic, which trunks a variable bundle of calls between the same two points, used by IDD services. The traffic has to be going between the same two points to make that work, though, whichever protocol you use as the tr

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T/E410P motherboard requirements ?

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Azher Amin wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest a good motherboard for the T/E410P cards ? Coz it doesn't get inserted in the the regular P4 motherboards due to PCI slot (32 bit) Any suggestions. Regards Azher Do you Ya

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Adpcm, 6KHz codec

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Alex Zarubin wrote: I am positive, 4 bits per sample, 6000 Hz. This is a default play/record setting for the older Dialogic R4 API and we need to play zillions (sic!) of files (messages) recorded this way. Conversion issues: - expensive C versions of the OKI/Dialogic ADPCM codec are fre

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is there any MFC-R2 implementation for asterisk?

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Underwood
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LQ (Asterisk) Sent: September 11, 2003 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Is there any MFC-R2 implementation for asterisk? The last thing that I read about it was: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sep 3:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TDM400P > BT

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Underwood
If shorting two FXS lines together damages them they are badly designed. Good BORSCHT (battery, over-voltage protection, ringing, signaling, hybrid, and test) design should mean they can tolerate this kind of thing. They have to very often in the poorly controlled PSTN rats nest. Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voice detection

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Brad, If you want to detect that a sound is voice, rather than something else, it isn't easy. There is information around on the Internet about methods, but I have never tried them and don't know how well they work. Unless you have some understanding of DSP I wouldn't bother trying. On the

Re: [asterisk-users] T.38 SIP Issues

2008-03-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Mindaugas Kezys wrote: > Hello, > > Higher speeds then 9600kbps are not permited by patents. > Would you care to name one that prevents 14,400? > Regards, > Mindaugas Kezys > http://www.kolmisoft.com > MOR PRO - Advanced Billing Solution for Asterisk PBX > > > -Original Message- > From:

Re: [asterisk-users] T.38 SIP Issues

2008-03-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Ricardo Carvalho wrote: > I made some tests with FAX in Asterisk 1.4 using T.38 between two ATAs > connected to legacy FAX machines, and realized that only SIP can make > passthrough in the server while RTP go direct between endpoints. Is it > possible for RTP data stream also to make passthroug

Re: [asterisk-users] Where is the Digium DS3 card?

2008-04-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote: > On April 7, 2008 02:01:08 am Alex Balashov wrote: > >> A Lucent TNT Max outfitted with _plethoric_ VFCs might work okay. Apex >> too, perhaps. Haven't tried to see how much it can handle when TDM->RTP >> translation is required. >> > > I'm curious; are th

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Matt Watson wrote: > I believe Asterisk 1.6 with app_fax supports T.38 origination and > termination, that is not gatewaying, however if origination and termination > are already there, gatewaying should be fairly trivial to implement. I > haven't actually tested 1.6 using T.38, however I have

Re: [asterisk-users] G.722?

2008-06-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Michael Graves wrote: > Which flavor of G.722 has been implemented in Asterisk? And starting > with what release version? > The only flavour with a defined RTP format is the full 64kbps one. Steve ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://w

Re: [asterisk-users] Help-ASTERISK-MFCR2

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Mariano Borgognone wrote: > Moises, we've already set debug level at 255 on unicall.conf and at > logger.conf we've enabled full log (notice,warning,error,debug,verbose). > > Has anyone experienced with a Siemens EWSD switch? > Anyone knows about to change R2 timers at unicall.conf ? > > Please any

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk+HylaFAX+SpanDSP+IAXmodem tutorial.

2007-11-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Michael J. Liberatore wrote: > Alex, I thought asterisk 1.4 supports faxing internally now without the > need for extra software? Is your solution a different one? I have no > experience with faxing yet but plan to soon, that's why I ask and will > read your blog entry. > You need extra softwa

Re: [asterisk-users] G729/MOH Quality

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Darryl Dunkin wrote: > Does anyone have any opinions on the music on hold quality over G729? > The stock files seem to sound terrible over it, this is enhanced further > by calls coming from the PSTN via a Zaptel gateway. I am only using the > stock wav files and have not attempted to use much else

Re: [asterisk-users] astunicall-1.2.21.0.1 packages and Sangoma A104D - ERROR

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Josué, Those E/F mismatch issues are due to using incompatible versions of spandsp and unicall. MFC/R2 defines 15 tone signals. These are called 1 to 15 in the R2 documentation. I wanted a single character code for these, so I used 0-9 for the digits, and A-E for the other 5 codes. This con

Re: [asterisk-users] Unicall protocol error. Cause 32776

2007-12-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Roger C. Beraldi Martins wrote: > Moises, > > I try put the line exactly like you send me, saw the time wait getting > longer with the parameter you describe to increment. But the error is > the same as you can see in logs. > > Has other way to solve this problem, may I question to my telephony

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Rob Hillis wrote: > Last time I heard IAXModem didn't support T.38 because the IAX2 > protocol didn't support T.38 - whether that's still the case or not, I > don't know. There are actually two reasons. One is that T.38 over IAX is not defined. The other is the current T.38 termination support i

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

2008-01-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Rob, Rob Hillis wrote: > Well that answers that question. I see that t38modem provides an H232 > modem - is this unsuitable for HylaFAX's purpose? (ignoring the fact > that it requires a kernel recompile on most newer distros.) > > Steve Underwood wrote: >> Rob Hi

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

2008-01-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Jonn R Taylor wrote: > I have always said that if some one said it can't be done, they did not try > hard enough. > > FYI... I love this. > Ben Franklin quote: > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > As the

Re: [asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Rob Hillis wrote: > Not unless you're running CallWeaver or Asterisk 1.6.0-beta4. Asterisk > has had passthrough support for T.38 for a while (somewhere in 1.4 it > became available IIRC) but is currently completely incapable of > terminating or encoding a fax call to T.38. > I thought * was

Re: [asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Underwood
t; This should be all that is necessary to run a T.38 gateway. > > > Steve Underwood wrote: >> Rob Hillis wrote: >> >>> Not unless you're running CallWeaver or Asterisk 1.6.0-beta4. Asterisk >>> has had passthrough support for T.38 for a while (so

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax-to-Email - Legal Issues

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Some months ago there were news about J2 filing lawsuits against > companies using fax-to-email technology, as they claimed it was their > patent. They had also won some cases, until someone filed a counter > lawsuit against them based some other grou

Re: [asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Rob Hillis wrote: > T.38 is for all intents and purposes a codec. It's purpose is to > re-encode a fax transmission as a data stream to be re-assembled at > the other end as if it were a fax call. Seems to me to be pretty > close to the definition of a codec to me. T.38 is not a simple re-enco

Re: [asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Benny Amorsen wrote: > Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Try reading the GPL and the FSF's interpretation of it. If things are >> running in the same address space as my code, they need to be GPL >> compatible, or I am likely to take acti

Re: [asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Underwood
of app_fax >> to work with Asterisk 1.4x ? Someone has tried it ? >> >> Best Regards, >> Fernando >> >> Thomas Kenyon wrote: >> >>> Steve Underwood wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> >>>>> >

Re: [asterisk-users] Oddity with FFA

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Underwood
On 03/11/2014 12:36 AM, Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, For the most part, we are finding that Fax for Asterisk works pretty well. However, we have seen some wierdness that we'd like to try to fix. Once in a while, we will get a partial result report for a given fax but when we look at the actual .t

Re: [asterisk-users] Oddity with FFA

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Underwood
that appears to only be a single page. But, since FFA isn't providing acknowledgement, the sending fax machine is resending the document multiple times! Mike. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Steve Underwood <mailto:ste...@coppice.org>> wrote: On 03/11/2014 12:36 AM, Mi

Re: [asterisk-users] is g729 codec free? or under license???

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Jeff, On 04/08/2014 12:13 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: Darrel- The G729 essential patents were *granted* in 1996, but applied for prior to June 8 1995. That means their lifespan is either 20 years from their application date, or 17 years from their grant date, whichever is greater (http://www.usp

Re: [asterisk-users] is g729 codec free? or under license???

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Underwood
On 04/09/2014 06:54 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:19:59AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Jeff, On 04/08/2014 12:13 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: Darrel- The G729 essential patents were *granted* in 1996, but applied for prior to June 8 1995. That means their lifespan is

Re: [asterisk-users] Is possible to use FXO Digium card like a Fax modem?

2016-03-30 Thread Steve Underwood
On 03/30/2016 08:23 PM, Vitor Mazuco wrote: Hi! Is possible to use X100p TDM400P, Tdm410p, Tdm400, A400p, Ax400p or any others digium card FXO for use Fax modem? Thanks. Asterisk + iaxmodem gives you a bunch of soft FAX modems. Add one of the analogue PSTN interface cards you listed and you h

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Alastair Maw wrote: Fax uses FSK modulation to transmit the data. If you compress this in a lossy way (GSM, MP3, whatever) then the integrity of the data is affected (more or less seriously depending on the codec used). Fax machines are generally quite picky, so compressing faxes is unlikely t

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Underwood
ProvoCityPower wrote: The question asked here, "why on earth you want to push fax data over a VoIP link at all. Fax compression isn't very efficient." may speak volumes about the future role of VOIP. My plans are to role out a VOIP connection to thousands of Customers. Many have legacy fax equi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Walker Haddock wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:06:57PM +0200, Dan wrote: Hi, - Original Message - From: "Walker Haddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan, you say fax works better on the TDM400 than the ATA186. I'm having problems with faxing on the TDM400. I had to drop t

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ToIP (TDD over IP)

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 10:12, Philipp von Klitzing wrote: Hi! I'm also curious if anyone else is doing this or if anyone else is using the Asterisk TDD support. Excuse my ignorance: What exactly is TDD? Is it US specific? It's a specification for sen

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sweet video phone

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Totaro wrote: Supports H323 http://www.viseon.com/prod/c_VisiFone.asp?id=133 So? Whilst there are still only a few VoIP audio phones available, almost every computer related manufacturer in Asia has at least one video phone model like this. There must be dozens of units like this availa

Re: [Asterisk-Users] tor2 does not load

2003-12-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Eduardo Goncalves wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:48:37 -0600 Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: asterix:~# modprobe tor2 Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196 Detected Tormenta 2 Quad T1/PRI or E1/PRA at 0xfe121800/0xfe121000 irq 7 Did not get DONE signal. Short file mayb

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Encryption

2003-12-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 19:11, Mahoney, Matt wrote: Hi, Does asterisk support any kind of voice encryption? Not right now. As I understand it, it is a problem with the fact that each packet would have to be able to be decrypted even if packets in the stream are los

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Encryption

2003-12-25 Thread Steve Underwood
And SRTP uses AES! Steve Brian West wrote: I understand AES can do this. bkw On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Steve Underwood wrote: Steven Critchfield wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 19:11, Mahoney, Matt wrote: Hi, Does asterisk support any kind of voice encryption? Not

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 API & Card Solution

2003-12-29 Thread Steve Underwood
That status page tells you the porject has gone nowhere so far. What you need is not a driver. It is a development project! Regards, Steve Ray Burkholder wrote: Current Status: http://www.openss7.org/asterix.html Ray Do I need a special Digium Card (E100-SS7) or use my E100P card and compile

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Does Asterisk support legacy Dialogic products?

2003-12-30 Thread Steve Underwood
Patrick Wong wrote: Hi all, I just checked out that Asterisk which is a platform I am interested of. I would like to install it to the Linux box for a trial. I have some legacy Dialogic hardware on hand, don't know they will work with Asterisk or not. For analog loop start interface I have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware to build an Enterprise AsteriskUniversal Gateway

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Underwood
WipeOut wrote: Granted five 9's is never easy but in a cluster of 10+ servers the system should survive just about anything short of an act of God.. You do realise that is a real dumb statement, don't you? :-) A cluster of 10 machines, each on a different site. Guarantees from the power company

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware to build an Enterprise AsteriskUniversal Gateway

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
9's allows about 6 minutes downtime a year. That means 100% of all failures must have automated failover, as manuals repair could never be achieved so fast. Physical diversity if essential for that. Regards, Steve Chris Albertson wrote: --- Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Just spended ~ hour googling - all boards are based on GC-XX or I750X Chipsets - all for Xeons. There also some boards for Pentium 3. Can someone point me to a board with 64Bit 3.3v PCI for ordinary P4 with 800Mhz FSB. Thanks Unless one has appeared in the last couple of wee

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 Digital - Brazil

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Daniel, You will find libr2 is only about 10% of an implementation, and a bad one at that. I now have 95% of a good implementation, but its not yet released. Regards, Steve Daniel Bichara wrote: Hi all, I will start testing libr2 for brazilian R2. Any clue? Daniel __

Re: [Asterisk-Users] More words for Allison

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Underwood
John Todd wrote: hurricane tornado You missed typhoon! Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/lis

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 Digital - Brazil

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
lling differences between countries ( I am trying to run .ar at .br)? Daniel Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Daniel, You will find libr2 is only about 10% of an implementation, and a bad one at that. I now have 95% of a good implementation, but its not yet released. Regards, Steve Daniel Bichara

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Richard Grinnell wrote: Dell - PowerEdge 400SC Server Under $300 with MIR Intel® P®4 Processor at 2.8GHz, 512KB Cache, 800MHz FSB For those of you who aren`t familiar with the 400SC, this server is an Intel i875P chipset based server with an 8x AGP slot. It is compatible wit

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Anton Tinchev wrote: Richard Grinnell wrote: Dell - PowerEdge 400SC Server Under $300 with MIR Intel® P®4 Processor at 2.8GHz, 512KB Cache, 800MHz FSB For those of you who aren`t familiar with the 400SC, this server is an Intel i875P chipset based

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttool and errors

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
John Brown (CV) wrote: It appears that zttool doesn't actually report T1 span errors. If I inject BPV's, crc errors, framing errors, etc into a T1 span, the counters on zttool don't change. It works OK for me with Tormenta 2 and TE410P boards. Both zttool and the /proc/zaptel/x files seem to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
ublic carrier, and therefore have no idea where to start. Would someone (Steve Underwood ;-) )mind at least putting me on the right track so I can address this issue? Thanks in advance Steve Jason I don't know why this would fail. An ISDN card should be properly synchrinised to the PSTN, and use

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
TC wrote: To complete this rather lengthy topic... what happens if you ignore all of this and just slap a bunch of systems together with no regard to a master sync source? The quality and stability of your network will likely not be as good as what it could be. If your clocks (in each device) hap

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Stephen Davies wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, TC wrote: What are the practical effects with in-correct clock sync -like to you hear odd buzzing, or dropped voice or gaps of audio ?? Old-fart anecdote about this - in the early 80s we had some 1200bps modems that we used to connect to client s

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: To complete this rather lengthy topic... what happens if you ignore all of this and just slap a bunch of systems together with no regard to a master sync source? The quality and stability of your network will likely not be as good as what it could be. If your clocks (in each d

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: What are the practical effects with in-correct clock sync -like to you hear odd buzzing, or dropped voice or gaps of audio ?? You may get gaps where frames are discarded, this will be across all timeslots so an individual loss isnt a lot of data, you'll probably get awa

Re: [Asterisk-Users] wav49 voicemail problem with Windows Media Player

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, My guess would be the lengths in the header are not set right. If a wave file (or a file with a similar structure, like TIFF) works with some things and not with others, the problem is usually the lengths in the header. Some software just complains when the lengths are wrong. Some tries to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 support

2004-01-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Olle E. Johansson wrote: LQ (Asterisk) wrote: Hi guys, I was reading that Steve Underwood is working on Asterisk R2 signalling support, and has the 95% of the work done. What is R2? I'm curious. Half of R2D2, of course. Its also a stupid clunky multi-tone based telephone signaling s

Re: [Asterisk-Users] [ot] Grandstream hardware

2004-01-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Eric Wieling wrote: How does Grandstream become patent indemnified for their hardware? I would assume they did not pay for a license for G723,1 and G729 directly to the patent holding company. Maybe they did. I always assumed the indemnification came with a DSP that implemented the codec. Mo

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T400P / T100P with Hong Kong IDA-P Lines

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi David, David Liu wrote: Hi there, Anyone had any success deploying Asterisk with a T100P or T400P card in Hong Kong? To my understanding, Hong Kong carriers only provide IDA-P or IDA-M lines. I am looking to use IDA-P. Is this possible with the card? I know Cisco 2651XMV with a VIC ca

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Martin Pycko wrote: You have to contact www.openss7.org. The site may look dead but they sell ss7 together with asterisk. Yes and no. The sell access to the SS7 CVS. It does not work with Asterisk. There is a project page about OpenSS7 - Asterisk integration, but it is a project that never we

Re: [Asterisk-Users] I got it (was: Cisco 7940 with asterisk)

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Jan Czmok wrote: Michael Devenijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan, Where can we get any technical documentation about sccp protocol i've searched with google and at cisco but i don't find anything useful ... The only useful resource is imagination :-) Skinny is a Protocol developed by Se

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 or E&M for E1 CAS pbx to pbx link

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
developer of libr2, Steve Underwood to comment on this. its his code he knows best. Please comment I keep commenting, and nobody seems to listen. libr2 is a half implemented useless piece of rubbish. The real working R2 is not available from me just yet. Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bluetooth discussions

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Don, A large number of GSM phones and PDAs now have bluetooth. It looks likely that through 2004 the majority of GSM phones anywhere above entry level will have Bluetooth. My guess is that this will collapse in 2005, and bluetooth will be dead soon after. In the meantime, I don't seem many

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: Hi Steve, Interesting... I'm not sure! My copy of the original indications.conf had 400+17, and looking at the wiki it's the same there also http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20indications%20defaul t I tested 400*17 and it made a difference, but I still

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
sounding. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2004 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications The correct tone is 400*17 (383 + 417) according

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Steve Underwood wrote: Actually, nothing would use a 17Hz tone - it doesn't pass through a 300-3400Hz channel very well :-) It's not a 17Hz tone. Australian (and others) tones are single-frequency tones that are amplitude-modu

[Asterisk-Users] GSM modems

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, I am interested in interfacing a GSM modem to *. I've seen a few comments about doing this, but I'm not clear whether people have actually made it work. I've used GSM modems for various data jobs, mostly high volume SMS (no, not nasty marketing stuff - high volume solicited SMS :-) ) .

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Has Nufone gone belly-up

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Don Feuer wrote: Hi Everybody, In regards to what I see here, this looks like a whole .com flash back. I started a phone company that went belly up (CentreCom, the first Unified Communications company) because of customer service issues, lack of on-line information, and a lack of caring for the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic D300SC-E1

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Alessio Focardi wrote: Hello Jeremy, Anyone can help me starting the card ? JM> List it on http://www.ebay.com/ and take the proceeds and purchase a JM> Digium E100P card. It has been my first tought but guess what ? E100P is not CE certified and I'm fearing legal problems

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and...

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Underwood
TC wrote: Mythical Asterisk Creatures, oft-discussed, rarely seen: 1) An "advanced" graphical user interface 2) An IAX2 hardware device 3) A Radius CDR report module 4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan 5) LDAP/SQL/Radius authentication for SIP phones 6) Robust R2 signalling suppor

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Strange message !! Unknown IE 76 (Unknown Information Element)

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: Hi Martin, libpri misses all the fun stuff :-( hold, retrieve, suspend, ect, cd, conf, 3pty .. but i am going to change that :-) regards kapejod It misses all the timers, too. :-) Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users m

[Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, I would like to announce the availability of an initial test version of a totally software FAX facility, suitable for use with Asterisk. This is a first public test release, so don't expect a solid polished product just yet. People have shown interest in what I am doing, and here is the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Florian, Florian Overkamp wrote: Hi, Citeren Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If it doesn't work for you, don't be too surprised. Feed back anything you find, and lets try to make things better. I suspect, from experience and things I have read on the web, that a lot

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