Hi all, I've been working with * for a long time now, but only with analog FXS/FXO systems. I am venturing towards setting up a box in Germany now and I believe that requires a Fritz card? Do I even have to use the Fritz cards? Why not a Digium card.... We have 2 ISDN lines ( --> 6 handsets) so I'm guessing that will require 2 Fritz PCI cards (they have 1 port only). Then there's some sort of channel bank that sends the calls out to the extensions. Does this make any sort of sense? Could someone confirm with me that this is the right direction to go -- ISDN lines, Fritz cards/Asterisk box, Channelbank/telco-box, extension handsets...... Thanks -- Chris Earle System Solutions Specialist, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Camilo Gonzalez-Cortes
2006-Jan-17 14:10 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Fritz card technology & German *
The Fritz cards was not designed to run on asterisk whereas the following German ISDN cards (http://www.junghanns.net/en/quadBRI_produkt.html) was designed specially to run on this platform. The only problem with this vendor is the support...It is terrible. They never respond an e-mail -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Earle (CBL) Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:42 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Fritz card technology & German * Hi all, I've been working with * for a long time now, but only with analog FXS/FXO systems. I am venturing towards setting up a box in Germany now and I believe that requires a Fritz card? Do I even have to use the Fritz cards? Why not a Digium card.... We have 2 ISDN lines ( --> 6 handsets) so I'm guessing that will require 2 Fritz PCI cards (they have 1 port only). Then there's some sort of channel bank that sends the calls out to the extensions. Does this make any sort of sense? Could someone confirm with me that this is the right direction to go -- ISDN lines, Fritz cards/Asterisk box, Channelbank/telco-box, extension handsets...... Thanks -- Chris Earle System Solutions Specialist, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 14/01/2006
Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
2006-Jan-17 14:41 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Fritz card technology & German *
On Tue, January 17, 2006 22:10, Camilo Gonzalez-Cortes said:> The Fritz cards was not designed to run on asterisk whereas the following > German ISDN cards (http://www.junghanns.net/en/quadBRI_produkt.html) was > designed specially to run on this platform. > > The only problem with this vendor is the support...It is terrible. They > never respond an e-mail > >Almost any card with the cologne HFC-S chip will work with their drivers + Florz patch, mISDN or vISDN. In my epxerience vISDN gives the best EURO-ISDN support, but it is a very young project, and still misses crucial stuff like echo cancelling... It is moving at a high pace though, so keep an eye on it... BriStuff is the most mature, but also still has bugs, and contrary to the vISDN developer, they hardly ever respond to emails... Whatever you choose, good luck! :-) -- F Peeters PIII 450 - 1 GB - * 1.2 - BRIstuff 0.3.0 Pre 1 - Florz patch 2 Sweex HFC-PCI modes=2 sync_slave=2 timer_card=0 Cologne HFC-S pins #52, #54, #55 connected in parallel for synching. AMD Duron 1GHz - 1GB - * 1.2.1 - vISDN 2 Sweex HFC-PCI cards
Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:> Hi all, > > I've been working with * for a long time now, but only with analog FXS/FXO > systems. > I am venturing towards setting up a box in Germany now and I believe that > requires a Fritz card? Do I even have to use the Fritz cards? Why not a > Digium card....The AVM Fritz card is a single connection (2 x 64 kbps) passive ISDN card. It's well supported by chan_capi, but running more than one of them in a PC requires a driver patch. You can't use a Digium card because Digium doesn't make an ISDN2 card.> > We have 2 ISDN lines ( --> 6 handsets) so I'm guessing that will require 2 > Fritz PCI cards (they have 1 port only). Then there's some sort of channel > bank that sends the calls out to the extensions. > Does this make any sort of sense?By 2 lines I guess you mean 4 channels ? i.e. 4 simultaneous calls ? If you mean 2 channels, then you only need 1 fritz card.> Could someone confirm with me that this is the right direction to go -- ISDN > lines, Fritz cards/Asterisk box, Channelbank/telco-box, extension > handsets......On the handset side you could use a couple of TDM4xx cards, or just use SIP phones. jd -- John Daragon john@argv.co.uk argv[0] limited (Asterisk implementation & consultancy) Lambs Lawn Cottage, Staple Fitzpaine, Taunton, TA3 5SL, UK v +44 (0) 1460 234068 f +44 (0) 1460 234069 m +44 (0) 7836 576127