asterisk users - Feb 2005 - E1's and span - what questions to ask my service provider

I am planning to go in for a E1 line and whould like to know what questions i
need to ask my service provider so i can connect that E1 to my asterisk box
using the digium E1 card. 

what I mean is will my service provider give me info like LBO, framing ,
coding etc which i need to configure the span tag in the zaptel.conf

and what about B and D channels am I allowed to setup whichever channel I
like as my D channel or is that preset by my E1 service provider ? 

Also does anyone have any experience in setting up a asterisk box to be the
NET end of the E1 line which is connected to a alcatel 400 pbx?

-- 
regards
Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com)

Yes Vikram, D channel is fixed by the provider. He would give you this along
with other line configuration details.

~amsi


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:56:01 +0100, Vikram Rangnekar
<vicky@freebsdcluster.net> wrote:
> I am planning to go in for a E1 line and whould like to know what questions
i
> need to ask my service provider so i can connect that E1 to my asterisk box
> using the digium E1 card.
> 
> what I mean is will my service provider give me info like LBO, framing ,
> coding etc which i need to configure the span tag in the zaptel.conf
> 
> and what about B and D channels am I allowed to setup whichever channel I
> like as my D channel or is that preset by my E1 service provider ?
> 
> Also does anyone have any experience in setting up a asterisk box to be the
> NET end of the E1 line which is connected to a alcatel 400 pbx?
> 
> --
> regards
> Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com)
> _______________________________________________
> 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
>