Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Compiling Asterisk with G.723.1

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Holger Schurig wrote: Codecs are patentable and patented worldwide. I'm not a lawyer --- but patents are not valid world-wide. Some countries have mutual patent agreements, other countries haven't. Some countries permit patents on everything, some are more restrict. I didn't say one

Re: [Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Kennedy wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0700, George Pajari wrote: http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0607faceoffyes.html There are very valid arguments in the contra argument. If you have existing equipment it's all about integration. Traditional telcos are moving to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Compiling Asterisk with G.723.1

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Tony Hoyle wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: I didn't say one patent covered all the world. I said the patents on codecs exist all over the world. WIPO is simplifying this a bit, but its still pretty expensive to get a patent everywhere. I know of no country where the key aspects of a codec cannot

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Compiling Asterisk with G.723.1

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Underwood
The reference code does not pack or unpack the bits. It needs additional work to make a usable codec. This is true of most reference codec implementations. The bit packing arrangements depend on the application of the codec, so they are often not specified as part of the codec. Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Compiling Asterisk with G.723.1

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Randy Ackers wrote: Tony Hoyle wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: I didn't say one patent covered all the world. I said the patents on codecs exist all over the world. WIPO is simplifying this a bit, but its still pretty expensive to get a patent everywhere. I know of no country where the key

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax via email

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Underwood
Darren Nickerson wrote: The last time I checked on a big FAX server, only a few percent of the calls used anything but basic 9600bps non-ECM operation. When I look in the shops, hardly any of the FAX machines - other than the low selling high end laser models - support anything fancy. If you are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DID/T1

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Underwood
dkwok wrote: I need clarification as to DID in T1 connection. T1 provides 24 channels for voice/data. Do it assign each channel to particular DID. Or you can have unlimited DID to share the 24 channel as an example. ie. Outgoing/incoming traffic is not bound to particular channel. Whatever is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: fax obsoleted? Was: Re: Fax via email

2004-06-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Lee Howard wrote: On 2004.06.11 20:47 Steve Underwood wrote: The last info I got from a large FAX server is about a year old. It seems after several years of nothing much changing, FAX has suddenly taken a step up - kind of sad it should improve now it is obsolete :-) Fax was only partially

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: OT: fax obsoleted? Was: Re: Fax via email (Steve Underwood)

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Kurt wrote: Old managers will change its the LaLawyershat don't change. Every dam law office that I been in has at least one fax machine that is constantly printing something out. But to say fax is dead is an understatement. ATT said that about teletype service, you know 50 - 300 baud service,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Blank faxes with RxFAX

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Patrick, I can't tell much from this brief description. Send me a console log. Regards, Steve Patrick J. Conroy wrote: Hello All, I have downloaded and installed spandsp and downloaded rxfax, etc and rebuilt asterisk with app_rxfax. I have added the following to my extensions.conf:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFax - Fast carrier training failed

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Mike, To get something like: Coarse carrier frequency 1832.96 (4) Training error 927.702492 Training failed (convergence failed) something is horribly wrong. The carrier should be 1700Hz, not 1832.96Hz :-) Do you have a codec mismatch, or are you using a codec other than u-law or A-law?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TDMoE Question

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: TDMoIP is nothing else like IAX2 with trunking, i would say. And a compression of 16/1 (payload bandwidth!) sounds like g723.1 to me. 16:1 means an avaerage of 4kbps per channel. It would have to be G.723.1 with optimistic silence compression to get that low. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXy and bandwidth requirements

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Michael George wrote: In the mailing list archives, I found a message that indicates that the IAXy has the ulaw, alaw, and g726 codecs, but I cannot find anything official on Digium's site about it. The Installation Manual has an example iax.conf file that indicates the ulaw codec, so I know

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Friday 18 June 2004 11:10, Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: better send the EUR 10k (not $10k... :) ) to the author of spandDSP. Nobody needs HylaFAX for receiving faxes. Converting a tiff to pdf and storing it somewhere is not rocket science. ;) Incorrect. I've

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: Am Fr, 2004-06-18 um 17.53 schrieb Darren Nickerson: You don't even need spandsp - fax is dead, remember? ;-) Why do YOU sell hylafax servers then? ;) best regards Klaus Working with the dead never stopped undertakers making a living :-) Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Lee Howard wrote: Furthermore, even if you assumed that spandsp was as stable as HylaFAX, there is a vast feature-set difference between them as far as the faxing itself goes. Steve has already made it clear that he sees no future in fax, and that he does not intend to bridge that feature-set

[Asterisk-Users] IRC

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
It seems the #asterisk channel on IRC has become an exclusive club. Suddenly it gives: An access level of [5] is required for [INVITE] on #asterisk irc://freenode/%23asterisk What's up? Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IRC

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
join. This was needed due to the spambots and the few abusive people. bkw - Original Message - From: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:40 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] IRC It seems the #asterisk channel on IRC has become an exclusive

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Holger Schurig wrote: Unless someone does something serious about the flakiness of libtiff, I don't think either spandsp or Hylafax will ever be very stable. :-( Delete the word unless. And then create a subdirectory spandsp/tiff where you put a libtiff into it that actually works. Create

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Lee Howard wrote: I've never seen this kind of flakiness of libtiff cause any problems for HylaFAX. As far as I'm aware, there has only been two instances when libtiff caused HylaFAX any grief. The 3.6.1 release problem with G3/G4 is a given. And then there was the 16-to-32 bit type change

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoiceXML support and integration

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, VoiceXML support would be great, but I know of any active work on it. openVXI seems to have spri=ung to life again recently, after years of languishing. Perhaps it would form a sound base to get VoiceXML up and running in a reasonable time. Regards, Steve Asterisk User wrote: Hi All, Do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoiceXML support and integration

2004-06-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Florian Overkamp wrote: Hi, -Original Message- VoiceXML support would be great, but I know of any active work on it. openVXI seems to have spri=ung to life again recently, after years of languishing. Perhaps it would form a sound base to get VoiceXML up and running in a reasonable

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Outgoing CLI

2004-06-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Simon wrote: Hello I have contacted my line provider who is saying that in order to get my 0845 or 0870 number to id as the incoming number on a landline that i may call i need the following. User must provide - NPI set to E.163/E.164 User must provide - TON = national or international I have had

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax with SPA-2000's?

2004-06-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Lee Howard wrote: I stand corrected. After a little bit of work with the fax application to adjust the timings (increasing all of the pauses), all is well with V.17 also. I assume you're using no compression (G711u) between the X100P and the SPA-2000, then. Are you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 to Pri

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Joseph wrote: Does anyone know of a device that will take an SS7 link and convert it to a PRI? It could be * - depending which version of * you have. :-) Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Special Delivery from China

2004-07-02 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:19, Jay Milk wrote: That would be a great alternative. For what it's worth, the phone is based on a PA1688 single-chip VOIP terminal, which in turn contains a 50MHz 8051-compatible and a ADSP2181 DSP running at 33MHz. The Sound interface is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP hackers gut Caller ID

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Underwood
The switches already support this. In most parts of the world an end user trunk can only use a caller ID within their allocated blocks of numbers. Attempts to use other caller IDs usually result in the call being rejected. In some cases it results in the call completing, but the receiver sees

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Hardware Echo Can

2004-07-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: [...] If you install a T1 card and an external T1 mux (with fxo cards), the echo can function already exists within the mux and/or cards. Don't really need 'another' external echo can box unless you actually purchased a T1 mux that didn't have echo can in the first place (and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Hardware Echo Can

2004-07-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:21, Rich Adamson wrote: If you install a T1 card and an external T1 mux (with fxo cards), the echo can function already exists within the mux and/or cards. Don't really need 'another' external echo can box unless you actually purchased a T1

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Hardware Echo Can

2004-07-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Underwood wrote: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:21, Rich Adamson wrote: If you install a T1 card and an external T1 mux (with fxo cards), the echo can function already exists within the mux and/or cards. Don't really need 'another' external echo can box unless you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bounty! For help with echo cancellation code.

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Underwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the CLI and during a call I want to be able to: *** Pulse the outgoing line and record at least 50 ms of the incoming line. The pulse waveform must be specifiable as a series of amplitudes for each 1/8000 sec time slot. It would be best of these values

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Echo problem update - POSSIBLE SOLUTION

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:07 -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: No echo on eMachine T2240 2.2ghz Celery, 360m RAM, with either tdm04b or x100p running any Head cvs after June 23rd (totally stock install). Wouldn't necessarily recommend this box for any commercial production use,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Echo problem update - POSSIBLE SOLUTION

2004-07-17 Thread Steve Underwood
John Galt wrote: could one at least in the case of the fxo/fxs cards just call out one port and be looped back into the other, record the outgoing and incomming call (one recording / port) then compare the phase difference of the 2 recordings? -Galt That is probably the simplest way to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] libr2 completion staus

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Underwood
bit123 wrote: hi! What's the libr2 status for Asterisk ? I've got R2 E1 delivered to my * box. I have TE410P digium quad card with newest CVS. How much % is completed with libr2 ? what's completed ? What's missing ? Thanks, bit123. libr2 gives you about 5% of a very bad R2 implementation. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Nortel SL1 protocol and *?

2004-07-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, The SL1 was an old Northern Telecom PBX, from the late 1970s/early 1980s - the precursor to the Meridian. I've never seen it refered to as a protocol. Now, if you really means the Meridian Link CTI protocol, then yep, I know about that. They charged a fortune ($25,000 I think) for a copy

Re: [Asterisk-Users] E1 problems

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Paulo Mannheimer wrote: Hi, I'm testing an E1 with EM 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 configured

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

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.

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 Underwood wrote

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

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

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

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

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,

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 support

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

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 of fax machines

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
that could cause crashes if you tried to send a non-existant TIFF file. I'm sorry if I disappointed the early adopters, but it *will* get better. Regards, Steve Florian Overkamp wrote: Hi, Citeren Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If it doesn't work for you, don't be too surprised. Feed back

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Witold Krecicki wrote: 1st. - I'm from Poland, we don't have (yet, and hopefully forever) software patents. Is there any free g.729.1 implementation for asterisk? I want to use it for my private use (dialing into inet-PSTN gateway), and I don't want (now) to buy codec, as I don't know if I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
-Original Message- From: Dave Cotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:45 AM To: Asterisk List Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:22, Steve Underwood wrote: I did say this was a first test release :-) I can't be held

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Chris, What on earth are you refering to? Regards, Steve Chris Albertson wrote: This whole argument is moot because there IS a free g.729 implementation. Actually it is a zero cost license to the source code. Exactly what was asked for. --- Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Steven, I think I have the tagging right for the aspect ratio. A lot of display software gets it wrong, including some well regarded things like the GIMP. KFax displayed my fine and standard test FAXes properly. Steven Critchfield wrote: Figured the group would like to hear this. I just

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: [...] Now I just wish it was robust enough to work over my IAX connection without problem. I'm sure it is the GSM compression that is biting it. I'll run some more tests and then maybe I'll move it to a machine located in the same rack as my phone gateway machine. At

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 signaling/Softswitch

2003-10-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Interesting. Someone thinks that a strategic use for * should be off this list. Someone thought my FAX modem for * should be off this list. However, nobody seems to think a 1000 messages about Grandstream phones should be off this list. Personally I would welcome seeing more of what people are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 signaling/Softswitch

2003-10-26 Thread Steve Underwood
links in ITP, how load a SPC formats, and how can I add an TGCP route in BTS... Sure! Why not? Regards, Gus - Original Message - From: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 signaling/Softswitch

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Alastair Maw wrote: On 27/10/03 21:57, DUSTIN WILDES wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations on implementing Answering Machine detection for call generation programs? There's obviously no nice way of doing this. If you're doing telemarketing, and you're playing pre-recorded audio, which

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Lists wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Brian Schrock wrote: Everyone, Just thought I would drop a line telling everyone here I have the software RxFAX/TxFAX up and running without any real problems. I did have to. RH 9.0 1) Install an audio devel rpm 1) install libtiff from source, and copy

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Did you mistype or something. That link is about power profiling the consumption of DSPs :-) Regards, Steve Asterisk online forums wrote: some information can be found here about algorithm and descriptions of method being used. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/393112.html Regards, Alexander

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Chris, That is exactly the Dialogic implementation I was referring to that was utterly useless. It works OK when people are demoing, as they always follow a certain pattern. In real like it I've always found it a recipe for screaming angry users. Depnding on your use it can get over 90% of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
I am taking note of people's messages about soft fax, even if I might appear to be ignoring them. I am getting V.27ter finished off right now, to flesh out the facilities in the software. V.27ter is used for 4800bps and 2400bps faxes - not critically important, but useless for lousy lines.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Ray Burkholder wrote: Might want to write a new energy detector algorithm in dsp.c though based on a wideband/low Q resonator approach (move the pole way in towards the origin) as opposed to narrow band goertzels (pole on the unit circle). More robust for this type of work. Where

Re: [Asterisk-Users] which TDM to use? DID line from telco with no dial tone and no voltage

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Patrick, You are in the UK, right (at least DDI strongly suggests that)? This is the commonest signalling for a DDI line on an analogue pair. The line is behaving just like the main exchange is a telephone. It picks up the line, by applying a 600ohm loop, and dials (with pulses per second

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Good system board to use with TE410P?

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Scott, I use a Tyan 2665 (7505 based) M/B with a TE410P. That works well. This is a development workstation, so its probably not the kind of board you want for deployment. Regards, Steve Scott Stingel wrote: Hi- I'm looking for an appropriate system board to power a system with two (2)

Re: [Asterisk-Users] which TDM to use? DID line from telco with no dial tone and no voltage

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Underwood
, expected to be much further away than an extension phone, I was wondering if there's a difference in the electrical requirment. thanks again, patrick Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Patrick, You are in the UK, right (at least DDI strongly suggests that)? This is the commonest signalling for a DDI line

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Where can i get the g.723 codec?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Thomas, Unless you have a *very* specific need to use G.723.1 for compatibility with someone else, forget it. It is pretty much an obsolete product. Licencing is also a pain, as there is not patent pool for it. G.729 is expensive to licence, but at least it is relatively strightforward. If

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel Performance Primitives

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Ernest, I tried IPP, but couldn't get much performance out of it. When I tried diassembling one or two routines to see what they looked like, there seemed at be a llo of overhead in the routines that destroyed all the benefits. Regards, Steve Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: Hey

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Where can i get the g.723 codec?

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Gillham wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Thomas, Unless you have a *very* specific need to use G.723.1 for compatibility with someone else, forget it. It is pretty much an obsolete product. Licencing is also a pain, as there is not patent pool for it. G.729 is expensive to licence

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Red Alarm

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
An E1 can be a long way from the box with the right cable. However many people use the wrong cable. Using a LAN cable for an E1 often gives errors if the cable is more than just a few metres long. Although the plugs look the same, the twisted pairs should be grouped differently in an E1 cable,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] AU FreeBSD PRI Hardware

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Martin List-Petersen wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 07:46, Talbot Neil wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any PRI hardware that is Austel certified and works well with Asterisk under FreeBSD??? If anyone has any information please let me know as I seem to be having problems finding any

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Mike, SS7 connects to the * box, with no other boxes next be involved. Of course, that box could be configured as a gateway, and act just like many of the SS7 converter boxes. Regards, Steve Mike Machado wrote: Have you implemented some kind of device control protocol to a gateway, or do the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Angel, It is working pretty well. I think it will be available about the end of the year. I will not be free. It will be supplied with a commercially licenced Asterisk. Regards, Steve Angel Diaz wrote: Hi all, Does somebody know what's new with SS7 and * ? I'm very interested. Is it ready

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compile error on spandsp-0.0.2-pre6

2004-11-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Leonardo, This is not a libtool issue. It looks like you must have an ancient C compiler, that doesn't understand C99 constructs. Steve Leonardo Gomes Figueira wrote: Hi, Trying to update to spandsp-0.0.2-pre6 I got a compile error: Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compile error on spandsp-0.0.2-pre6

2004-11-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Leonardo Gomes Figueira wrote: Steve, Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Leonardo, This is not a libtool issue. It looks like you must have an ancient C compiler, that doesn't understand C99 constructs. gcc 2.95.3 Any workaround or I really need to upgrade gcc ? Leonardo That's really old. Right now

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Matthew Crocker wrote: I just avoid people who think it's ok to create proprietary extensions to free software. People like that should be ashamed of themselves, as it's just an insult to the people who have freely contributed to the project. I fully agree. How hard would it be to integrate

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 19/11/2004 21:30 Steve Underwood said the following: I can't imagine anyone successfully integrating openss7 into anything. I believe it works OK on its own, and is in use as a gateway. It wasn't as a gateway between what ? if it's SS7 on one side, what's on the other

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 19/11/2004 22:44 Steve Underwood said the following: as a gateway between what ? if it's SS7 on one side, what's on the other ? SIGTRAN (SS7 over IP) on top of SCTP ? Yep, that kind of gateway. He has his own SCTP, and doesn't use the native Linux 2.6 one. in which case

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Little off topic

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Eric Hall wrote: Telco gives me a PRI It connects to my Asterisk via Wildcard T100P using a 2nd Wildcard T100P I would like to connect with a X-Cable my HylaFax server. My question is will a Wildcard T100P work in a Hylafax server? That depends on your definition of work.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] txfax

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
John Hill wrote: Trying to send a fax using a call file and txfax. Phone dials the remote fax answers but * gives me: Call failed to go through, reason 3 And hangs up. Any help. Thanks --John Did you add |caller to the command? Steve ___

Re: [Asterisk-Users] problem with chan_unicall.c for MFC/R2 with asterisk

2004-11-26 Thread Steve Underwood
kaws elchamal wrote: I patch asterisk in this way: patch - p1 channels_makefile.patch is it the good way to patch it? after the patch, I complie asterisk without problem I configure the unicall.conf as needs. compiling asterisk patched dont generate any error but the file

Re: ^3 [Asterisk-Users] problem with chan_unicall.c for MFC/R2 with asterisk

2004-11-26 Thread Steve Underwood
HO SIN wrote: Dear Kaws, and Dear Steve, I think I am facing the same kind of trouble. This kaws's case is simple; one line inserted by patch designates wrong header file name of unical.h, therefore the objects are not compiled. The reality is unicall.h, and OK, fixed that one. after

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cannot get two TE410Ps to operate correctly in the same machine

2004-11-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Peter Svensson wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: There can be only one clock and you must engineer your system such that everything is synchronized properly. For simple systems like what we are describing it's not difficult but when you have multiple spans coming from

Re: [Asterisk-Users] low quality sound samples

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Corvin wrote: Adjust your expectations to telephone quality. Everything is based around 8khz samples and at best around 14 bit quality. The GSM files should be around cell phone quality due to the codec. You are welcome to rerecord any sound prompts you wish and use them at a slightly higher

Re: [Asterisk-Users] unable to compile testcpuid.c in spandsp in x86_64

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Nicolás Gudiño wrote: Hello, I'm unable to compile testcpuid.c with the __x86_64__ architecture (Athlon 64 processor). The messages are: /tmp/ccONleRV.s: Assembly messages: /tmp/ccONleRV.s: Error: suffix or operands invalid for 'pushf' 'pop' 'push' 'popf' Is it safe to ignore this module?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 support

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Darren Nickerson wrote: James H. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: T.38 is often put forward as the solution for reliable FAX over VOIP. With good reason ;-) Just wondering for anyone using T.38 (with any equipment), how well does it work as compared to a FAX PSTN call? Our experience is that

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iLBC

2004-11-30 Thread Steve Underwood
Guilherme Góes wrote: Does anyone have the fixed point implementation of the iLBC codec ? I am an undergraduate student that's trying to implement a faster way for this CODEC in a PC architeture using MMX/SSE (fixed point). On a PC it is actually quite hard to make a codec like this go faster

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk without D-Channel possible?

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Patrick wrote: Dear List, I'm running an Asterisk 1.0 server with 4 HFC cards and bri-stuff behind an Anlagenanschluß with 8 B-channels in Germany. It worked fine with Deutsche Telekom, but since we switched to Arcor nothing works at all. After some debugging, I called Arcor helpdesk who told me

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk without D-Channel possible?

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Peter Svensson wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Steve Underwood wrote: Patrick wrote: I'm running an Asterisk 1.0 server with 4 HFC cards and bri-stuff behind an Anlagenanschluß with 8 B-channels in Germany. It worked fine with Deutsche Telekom, but since we switched to Arcor nothing works

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Advantage of IAX2 to SIP?

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Underwood
WipeOut wrote: Michael Vogel wrote: Hi! Some - few - providers are using IAX2 as a protocol. Most are using SIP. I know that there are advantages of IAX2 regarding multiple connections. But beside this I'm asking myself (and you all) why I should prefer IAX2 when my SIP connection is working.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP 0.0.2pre6 undef symbol on gentoo-ppc

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Scott, Watch out for spandsp-0.0.2pre7 :-) Seriously, I found the same issue while testing for x86-64 machines this week. spandsp is now working on a x86-64, but I haven't tidied up and released an updated version yet. That should happen this weekend. I hope this updated version will build

Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 algorithm?

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: hi all according to what I've found out this far, the G.729 patent seems not valid in a broad range of countries. Don't bet on it. does anyone know where I can find the algorithm? Its called G.729 because it is defined in the G.729 spec. :-\ Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 algorithm?

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Albania, I think :-) Steve Robert Rozman wrote: Hi, do you have info in what countries g.729 is not valid... ? Regards, Robert. - Original Message - From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.711 Appendix II

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Guilherme Góes wrote: Does anyone have the C reference code of the ITU G.711 Appendix II ? I don't think there is specific reference code for this. However, if you read the appendix you will find it is just using a section of the G.729 algorithm. You can lift suitable code out of the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 algorithm?

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Kevin Walsh wrote: Robert Rozman [EMAIL PROTECTED] lazily top-posted: do you have info in what countries g.729 is not valid... ? You could start with the whole of Europe and can also add the UK. I'm sure there are lots of other countries who don't feel the need to acknowledge US-based

Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 algorithm?

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Albania, I think :-) Cite your source. I might be wrong. I'm working from second hand knowledge. Someone told be they never introduce copyright legislation and their patent legislation is almost non-existant. I think you would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Faxing..not 100%

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Matthew, See http://www.opencall.org/faq/x47.html Regards, Steve Matthew Boehm wrote: Here is the setup: POTS - PRI - Asterisk - ATA (Fax) The ATA is set to only 711. Asterisk's sip.conf sets this device to only 711. Yet, faxing works less than 50% of the time. I cannot possibly be the only

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Faxing..not 100%

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On December 7, 2004 04:30 pm, Matthew Boehm wrote: Yes, using RedHat 9. Are you using RH's stock kernel or a plain-vanilla kernel? I have heard nothing but bad things with Asterisk and RH's custom kernels. If you can, try a stock 2.6.9. It is just the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Spandsp loading via asterisk app_rxfax.c broken pipe.

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Underwood
If you really added /var/local/lib, that would eb your trouble. It should be /usr/local/lib. Steve Ariel Batista wrote: I have compiled Spandsp without any problems. I got no errors I have also done the patch without getting any error. I have tried pre4 and pre6 version with same problem. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How can i test a modem with Asterisk?

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Fabrício Zimmerer Murta wrote: Oh, friend... I have realised just yesterday that's impossible to use regular modems (say hayes/v90 33.6 or 56k) to plug asterisk to the world. I can't figure out why. But they simply don't support it. If you want to use your isdn modem to plug * to the world, it's

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How expensive are the different codecs? (Regarding CPU time)

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Michael Vogel wrote: Hi! The encoding, decoding and recoding cost cpu time, that's sure. But does this time differs much depending on the used codec? Is - for example - a G729 faster than a GSM codec? Bye! Michael They vary a lot. G.729 is pretty slow. iLBC and speex in the same ballpark.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] drings

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Rafael Pazetto wrote: Hello, Any chance of development team make more drings?I googled and found out that only 3 drings can be configured.I have at least 6 different rings in my lines.In my setup is a good feature since I can know whos coming from the world and whos coming from inside the

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