[VoIP] FXO cards and CallerID

Shane Young voiptandem at shaneyoung.com
Tue May 6 12:34:14 CDT 2008


The 3810 can SEND callerid on FXS ports.

The 3810 ports I have can not receive callerid.


Quoting John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>:

> I thought John Jones said it COULD detect CLID, but he is one of the
> highest authorities on Cisco, check with him first.
>
> As to cards on the PCI bus, there is the X100P which does detect US
> CLID, but NOT UK and some other countries. This card is available cheap,
> and also provides timing for the IAX and some other Asterisk functions
> if you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel. Otherwise ztdummy needs to be
> enabled in the Zaptel compilation. Sometimes that also fails if you have
> the wrong USB chipset, and then you need a card anyway.
> Most of these problems go away with Linux 2.6 kernels, and are probably
> replaced with others.
> Digium TDM400 cards are more expensive, as is the Sangoma A200, and the
> Sangoma can be more difficult to get working, but once you do it has a
> longer warranty and seems generally a better card. The TDM 400 doesn't
> always work with older motherboards, and MUST have one with the PCI 2.2
> spec.
> Digium has recently introduced the TDM 410. I have no experience with
> that one.
>
> Try your Cisco 3810 first and see what does and doesn't work
>
> Passing the CLID through to an FXS port is a matter or programming in
> your dial plan.
>
> John Novack
>
> Nathan Watson wrote:
>> Some time ago, I made a post asking if a Cisco 3810
>> could handle/detect inbound CID and the general
>> consensus was that it could not. Someone mentioned
>> that a FXO card probably could. Does anyone have any
>> experience with FXO cards that can do this? I would
>> like to know what type of card I could get to do that.
>>
>> If its possible, I would like to set things up so that
>> CallerID and voicemail FSK notification on an outside
>> line could be interpreted by Asterisk and sent to the
>> extension(s) that it rings to. Perhaps it may be
>> trickier (or not even possible) to implement this for
>> the VM notification, but I would prefer it instead of
>> running a standalone VM notification lamp (connected
>> to the outside line) to each extension.
>>
>> If any of you have experience, knowledge, or
>> suggestions for implementing something like this, I
>> would appreciate hearing it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Nathan
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