[VoIP] Hello from Slovenia!

[Mark Rudholm]

Greg Blakely wrote:
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
>> On Behalf Of Mark Rudholm
>>
>> I really wish I could interconnect an American BRI to Asterisk.
>> It would eliminate all the problems with my analog loop and 
>> FXO port.  
> 
> Same here.  I can't decide which is worse:  calls breaking up on my voip
> line, or the levels and echo problems on my analog line.  
> 
> BRI would be perfect.
> 
> But as someone who works at a telco, I have to say that I'd *much*
> rather provision an ISDN PRI than an ISDN BRI.  The programming is much
> more straightforward.
> 
> And, as someone who had BRI service until 1999 (for my internet
> connection), it struck me as being somewhat clunky that I had to have
> two separate interfaces to get 2B+1D to work.
> 
> I've seen a bounty offered for a North American BRI asterisk interface,
> and I'd be willing to toss a nickle or two that way, but I'm not
> optimistic.

Hey, if I could get a PRI from Pacific Bell for the same price
they charge for a BRI, I'd be fine with that :-)

Interestingly, they won't give me CNAM on BRI, only on PRI.
I realize that CNAM wasn't part of the original ISDN spec,
perhaps they just didn't bother to back-port it to small-
potatoes BRI?

I've heard people rave about the Sangoma cards (with hardware
EC).  They say their echo and level problems evaporated
when they switched from Digium to Sangoma, so this prospect
tempts me.  On the other hand, I could get the new hardware EC
module for my TDM800 card, but if it turns out to be a dog,
I've just invested more money in the wrong vendor's products...