asterisk users - May 2005 - Asterisk and a D/42NS

Hello,

The company I work for deploys and manages telecom hardware for small- to
medium-sized businesses. My boss has asked me to investigate Asterisk as a
possible PBX for deploying to customers along with IP phones. The general
layout would be:

 --------------                                     ----------
|    trunk     |            ----------             |  LAN,    |
| (T1/analogs/ |  =======> | Asterisk | =========> |IP phones |
| etc.)        |            ----------              ----------
 --------------

I'm building a test machine right now to experiment with using one of our
analog lines. We have two spare Dialogic D/42NS cards, and I was hoping I
would make one of them work. Has anyone tried that model? I haven't found
any information, good or bad.

The supported hardware list on asterisk.org has the D/41JCT-LS. Is that a
very similar card? Could I "pretend" the D/42NS is a D/41JCT-LS?

Thanks,
Corey

On 17 May 2005, at 02:21, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The company I work for deploys and manages telecom hardware for  
> small- to
> medium-sized businesses. My boss has asked me to investigate  
> Asterisk as a
> possible PBX for deploying to customers along with IP phones. The  
> general
> layout would be:
>
>  --------------                                     ----------
> |    trunk     |            ----------             |  LAN,    |
> | (T1/analogs/ |  =======> | Asterisk | =========> |IP phones |
> | etc.)        |            ----------              ----------
>  --------------
>
> I'm building a test machine right now to experiment with using one  
> of our
> analog lines. We have two spare Dialogic D/42NS cards, and I was  
> hoping I
> would make one of them work. Has anyone tried that model? I haven't  
> found
> any information, good or bad.
>
> The supported hardware list on asterisk.org has the D/41JCT-LS. Is  
> that a
> very similar card? Could I "pretend" the D/42NS is a D/41JCT-LS?
The advice I was given when I started down the same line a year ago was:
Forget the dialogic, the drivers are old and not free and almost no- 
one is
using them. You are better off just buying a well supported card  
(ideally
from Digium).

There are technical and legal reasons why the Dialogics don't fit
into the Asterisk world view - as such even if you do get it to work
it won't be representative of what you'd actually install for a  
customer.

What I did was to build a system that was 100% voip using spare old
hardware and played with it until I was comfortable with Asterisk, then
splashed out on an E1 card and some dedicated hardware.

Turned out fine for us.

Tim
>
> Thanks,
> Corey
>
>

> Forget the dialogic, the drivers are old and not free and almost no-
one is using them.  

I concur that view. Don't even touch Dialogic garbage. I have see people
spending months without being able to make them work. Dump them into
your incinerator and turn the knob from 'Medium' to 'High'. 

You would be happier buying either a Varion card (
http://www.govarion.com) or a Digium card (http://www.digium.com) at a
fraction of the price and a fraction of the time required to configure.

Seshu

-----Original Message-----
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To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and a D/42NS


On 17 May 2005, at 02:21, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The company I work for deploys and manages telecom hardware for
> small- to
> medium-sized businesses. My boss has asked me to investigate Asterisk 
> as a possible PBX for deploying to customers along with IP phones. The
> general layout would be:
>
>  --------------                                     ----------
> |    trunk     |            ----------             |  LAN,    |
> | (T1/analogs/ |  =======> | Asterisk | =========> |IP phones |
> | etc.)        |            ----------              ----------
>  --------------
>
> I'm building a test machine right now to experiment with using one of 
> our analog lines. We have two spare Dialogic D/42NS cards, and I was 
> hoping I would make one of them work. Has anyone tried that model? I 
> haven't found any information, good or bad.
>
> The supported hardware list on asterisk.org has the D/41JCT-LS. Is 
> that a very similar card? Could I "pretend" the D/42NS is a 
> D/41JCT-LS?
The advice I was given when I started down the same line a year ago was:
Forget the dialogic, the drivers are old and not free and almost no- one
is using them. You are better off just buying a well supported card
(ideally from Digium).

There are technical and legal reasons why the Dialogics don't fit into
the Asterisk world view - as such even if you do get it to work it won't
be representative of what you'd actually install for a customer.

What I did was to build a system that was 100% voip using spare old
hardware and played with it until I was comfortable with Asterisk, then
splashed out on an E1 card and some dedicated hardware.

Turned out fine for us.

Tim
>
> Thanks,
> Corey
>
> 
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