Hi, Currently I only have 1 PRI which I am using for dial-in customers. The line is connected to a Portmaster3. I have never used more than 10 concurrent channels. The calls can be both analog or ISDN. It would be a waste to order another PRI for my Asterisk box. Is there any way of splitting a PRI into 2 PRI's of 15 channels each, or plugging the PRI into the * box and it send the data calls to the portmaster, or handles them itself? Any advice would be much appreciated Regards David Norton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050129/fcb286ec/attachment.htm
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, David Norton wrote:> Currently I only have 1 PRI which I am using for dial-in customers. The line > is connected to a Portmaster3. I have never used more than 10 concurrent > channels. The calls can be both analog or ISDN. It would be a waste to order > another PRI for my Asterisk box. Is there any way of splitting a PRI into 2 > PRI's of 15 channels each, or plugging the PRI into the * box and it send > the data calls to the portmaster, or handles them itself?Off the top of my head I can think of a few solutions: * Use a multiport T1 zapata card (TE405P or TE410P) and connect your systems this way: PSTN -PRI- Asterisk -PRI- Portmaster \ ---lan--- voip stuff With suitable parameters to the Dial application in Asterisk the forwarded calls will be passed transparently between the interfaces. This is similar to how we handle isdn data calls. * The zapata driver can handle digital but not analog ppp connections in the driver. If you wanted to you could use the above solution but have the Asterisk box handle the digital data calls. Not much is gained since you still need the Portmaster for the analog data calls. * Use a pri card with an on board DSP in the Asterisk box. The so called "active" isdn cards are usually so equipped. Cards in this category are the Eicon Diva Server T1/PRI cards (or the E1 equivalent) and probably more. I think they all interface to Asterisk via CAPI. * Buy a box with a dedicated box that does both VoIP and data call termination and interface to Asterisk via VoIP. Peter
David Norton wrote:> Hi, > > Currently I only have 1 PRI which I am using for dial-in customers. > The line is connected to a Portmaster3. I have never used more than > 10 concurrent channels. The calls can be both analog or ISDN. It > would be a waste to order another PRI for my Asterisk box. Is there > any way of splitting a PRI into 2 PRI?s of 15 channels each, or > plugging the PRI into the * box and it send the data calls to the > portmaster, or handles them itself? > > Any advice would be much appreciatedI betcha Sangoma has something that'd do this for you. They've been supporting T1 data on Linux for years, and they're recently added zapata to their list of open-source drivers. Give them a shout, they love this kind of stuff. Cheers, Jim -- Jim Van Meggelen jim@vanmeggelen.ca -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.2 - Release Date: 28/01/2005
Dave, howzit You can use asterisk with a quad E1 card to divide your E1. So anyone who dials in using 1234 for example, route to your portmaster and anyone who dials in using 1235 use for IVR/voip, whatever. Good luck Regards Clive On 29 Jan 2005 at 15:11, David Norton wrote:> > Hi, > > Currently I only have 1 PRI which I am using for dial-in customers. The line is connected to a > Portmaster3. I have never used more than 10 concurrent channels. The calls can be both analog > or ISDN. It would be a waste to order another PRI for my Asterisk box. Is there any way of splitting a PRI into 2 PRI?s of 15 channels each, or plugging the PRI into the * > box and it send the data calls to the portmaster, or handles them itself? > > Any advice would be much appreciated > > Regards > > David Norton >
One MORE!!!! Adtran Atlas 550. I have used it in service for over 3 years and it is ROCK SOLID!!! -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Svensson Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 9:17 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] PRI for Data and Voice On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, David Norton wrote:> Currently I only have 1 PRI which I am using for dial-in customers. > The line is connected to a Portmaster3. I have never used more than 10> concurrent channels. The calls can be both analog or ISDN. It would be> a waste to order another PRI for my Asterisk box. Is there any way of > splitting a PRI into 2 PRI's of 15 channels each, or plugging the PRI > into the * box and it send the data calls to the portmaster, orhandles them itself? Off the top of my head I can think of a few solutions: * Use a multiport T1 zapata card (TE405P or TE410P) and connect your systems this way: PSTN -PRI- Asterisk -PRI- Portmaster \ ---lan--- voip stuff With suitable parameters to the Dial application in Asterisk the forwarded calls will be passed transparently between the interfaces. This is similar to how we handle isdn data calls. * The zapata driver can handle digital but not analog ppp connections in the driver. If you wanted to you could use the above solution but have the Asterisk box handle the digital data calls. Not much is gained since you still need the Portmaster for the analog data calls. * Use a pri card with an on board DSP in the Asterisk box. The so called "active" isdn cards are usually so equipped. Cards in this category are the Eicon Diva Server T1/PRI cards (or the E1 equivalent) and probably more. I think they all interface to Asterisk via CAPI. * Buy a box with a dedicated box that does both VoIP and data call termination and interface to Asterisk via VoIP. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users