asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Are there any digital phones that run on asterisk yet?

Are there any digital phones that run on asterisk yet? I'm talking about 
non-IP phones here...

John

John Harragin wrote:
> Are there any digital phones that run on asterisk yet? I'm talking
about
> non-IP phones here...
> 
> John
Asterisk can work with ADSI phones, more info on the wiki at 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-ADSI

flynn

>Asterisk can work with ADSI phones,
What I have in mind is a pci card with zap-like-driver that supports digital 
phones. This eliminates (is compairable to using channel bank) additional 
delay and a primary echo source when both haves of a conversation are carried 
on the same pair as found with fxs ports. There are many reasons why this is 
superior to the channel bank/analog phone route especially when VoIP comes 
into the picture. This is also superior to an office filled with IP phones 
and a centralized asterisk switch - although there are times where it is 
clearly advantageous to use an IP phone, such as distant office phones or if 
all of your calls are destine to IP. But if you are connecting to a telco, 
calls that avoid IP are always going to be superior and more reliable (with 
the current state of things).

Anyway, there are many pci/digital phone key system or pbx manufacturers. At 
some point they will see the inevitability and potential of the Asterisk 
market and modify zap or make drivers for their equipment. This is a problem 
for independent developers because if you began to make this type of 
equipment, you have to potential of instant heavy competition. Maybe it would 
be a good open hardware project like zappata. Anyway, if you think asterisk 
is growing fast now, just wait till this happens...

Anyway, I need hundreds of these phones. I am using Asterisk as a bridge to 
several aging PBXs and am expecting to one day run all of my wired phones 
native in Asterisk.

John

asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote:
> Are there any digital phones that run on asterisk yet? I'm talking
> about non-IP phones here...
Possibly what you'll want is something that'll convert proprietary
digital formats into standards-based formats.

These folks have some interesting ideas:

http://www.citel.com/products/docs/SIPProdSht_5.19.04.pdf

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, John Harragin wrote:
> What I have in mind is a pci card with zap-like-driver that supports
digital
> phones. This eliminates (is compairable to using channel bank) additional 
> delay and a primary echo source when both haves of a conversation are
carried
> on the same pair as found with fxs ports. There are many reasons why this
is
> superior to the channel bank/analog phone route especially when VoIP comes 
> into the picture. This is also superior to an office filled with IP phones 
> and a centralized asterisk switch - although there are times where it is 
> clearly advantageous to use an IP phone, such as distant office phones or
if
> all of your calls are destine to IP. But if you are connecting to a telco, 
> calls that avoid IP are always going to be superior and more reliable (with
> the current state of things).
This is an interesting idea. Voip does cause a delay that necessitates the
use of an echo canceler. Another advantage is that most proprietary
digital phones have a lot more programmable buttons/leds/whatnot than
current voip phones.

One problem I see is that there are several different poprietary digital
phone interfaces.

Peter