asterisk users - Mar 2006 - What hardware to use for ISDN in Romania

Hello everyone.

My land-line provider (Romtelecom) has a very nice offer for ISDN. All in
all they offer me a digital land-line with 1 base number + 2 MSN's and that
would make a grate addition to my full-time home office.

Romtelecom say they're providing EURO-ISDN and the line is compatible with
any euro-isdn compliant equipment. They say they'll install a NT at my
office and this NT will provide me with 1 (one) SO (or was that S0 - zero
opposed to the letter O?) port to connect to my PBX.

My questions:
What hardware do I use to connect the line to my Asterisk?
What are the risks involved (bad drivers etc)?
Has any one used this in Romania?

Thanks!

HI There

if the line is a standard EUROISDN with DSS1 protocol then it's not a risk 
at all to take and to connect it. You get an S0 interface from your TELCO 
and there cou can plug in any EUROISDN compliant equipment e.g. TAs, phones 
and, of course, ASTERISK ...

I would suggest that you AT LEAST try to get an ISDN-TA  (ISDN <-->PSTN 
converter for "old" analogue phones and fax machines) as well, for
testing
and backup purposes. They are cheap to get e.g. for abt 2-5 EUR e.g. on EBAY.

Depending on your budgets (time and money), experiences and skills you can 
equip your ASTERISK box with incoming and outgoing ISDN channels. You will 
find quite a lot config examples for that, supposingly ISDN-cards with 
HFC-S chipsets are the most versatile ... However, ISDN drivers are still a 
bit tricky, but youo have depending on your kernel version at least 
ISDN4LINUX, vISDN, mISDN and chan_modem, chan_capi, chan_capi-cm, 
chan_misdn as config options ...

Anything else you shoul dbe able to find in the WiKis ...

Regards,

J?rgen


>My land-line provider (Romtelecom) has a very nice offer for ISDN. All in
>all they offer me a digital land-line with 1 base number + 2 MSN's and
that
>would make a grate addition to my full-time home office.
>
>Romtelecom say they're providing EURO-ISDN and the line is compatible
with
>any euro-isdn compliant equipment. They say they'll install a NT at my
>office and this NT will provide me with 1 (one) SO (or was that S0 - zero
>opposed to the letter O?) port to connect to my PBX.
>
>My questions:
>What hardware do I use to connect the line to my Asterisk?
>What are the risks involved (bad drivers etc)?
>Has any one used this in Romania?
>
>Thanks!
>
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