asterisk users - Apr 2004 - [semi-OT] Channelbanks for european market / Alternatives

Hello list,

does anyone know if there are channelbanks homologated for the
eruopean/german market, i.e. labeled with the socalled "CE
certificate"?

So far, I know that the products from Adtran (TA750 and TSU600) and 
Carrieraccess (Adit 600) are not CE-labeled, but I have no alternatives
when it comes to terminating > 12 < 128 FXS ports.

[It has been already discussed somewhere on the list: what number of 
TDM40Bs in a box would you consider safe regarding the limitations
of the PCI bus / interrupts and the power supply? I have something like
maximum three cards in mind...]

Or am I deadlocked in the idea that this has to be done via multiple
E1/T1 trunks terminated to FXS by a channelbank? Are there other
approaches imaginable?

TIA,

Tobias F. Leucht

Tobias F. Leucht wrote:
> does anyone know if there are channelbanks homologated for the
> eruopean/german market, i.e. labeled with the socalled "CE
certificate"?
> 
> So far, I know that the products from Adtran (TA750 and TSU600) and 
> Carrieraccess (Adit 600) are not CE-labeled, but I have no alternatives
> when it comes to terminating > 12 < 128 FXS ports.
> 
> Or am I deadlocked in the idea that this has to be done via multiple
> E1/T1 trunks terminated to FXS by a channelbank? Are there other
> approaches imaginable?
If you are not connecting the channel bank to the telco, then you should 
not need the Euro certification for telco stuff, just the certification 
for EMI/RFI.  i.e. if you are connecting an E-1 into Asterisk on one 
port of a 4 port Digium card, then you should be able to connect pretty 
much any E-1 OR T-1 channel bank to another port of the card for your 
FXS ports.