asterisk users - Jan 2007 - About BRI / ISDN hardware. What to buy?

Hello everyone.

I need a BRI ISDN card that works in Romania. I already have one of the 
"Cologne HFC-S" PCI cards and it doesn't work right, it's
junk. I get
waaaay too much echo using it. I'm now "shopping" for a better
card. Can
anyone recommend me a card that "fits" the following:

(a) Costs less then $1000 / 750 euro
(b) Has one or (preferably) two ISDN S0 interfaces.
(c) Easy to set up.
(d) Drivers offer proper echo-canceling OR has an hardware echo 
canceler. I might increase the $1000 a bit if I can get good hardware 
echo canceler...

Thanks,
Cosmin Prund

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 19:00 +0200, Cosmin Prund wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I need a BRI ISDN card that works in Romania. I already have one of the 
> "Cologne HFC-S" PCI cards and it doesn't work right, it's
junk. I get
> waaaay too much echo using it. I'm now "shopping" for a
better card. Can
> anyone recommend me a card that "fits" the following:
> 
> (a) Costs less then $1000 / 750 euro
> (b) Has one or (preferably) two ISDN S0 interfaces.
> (c) Easy to set up.
> (d) Drivers offer proper echo-canceling OR has an hardware echo 
> canceler. I might increase the $1000 a bit if I can get good hardware 
> echo canceler...
I think http://www.melware.de carries the Eicon Server ISDN cards which
have hardware echo cancellation. They are also the author of the
chan_capi driver for Asterisk. I use the Eicon Server BRI cards with
Asterisk myself and they work very well.

Regards,
Patrick

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On 18 Jan 2007, at 18:31, Patrick wrote:
> I think http://www.melware.de carries the Eicon Server ISDN cards  
> which
> have hardware echo cancellation. They are also the author of the
> chan_capi driver for Asterisk. I use the Eicon Server BRI cards with
> Asterisk myself and they work very well.
I concur, I have a Eicon DIVA single port BRI card and it works very  
well.

Cosmin, if you want to use it for Fax traffic as well make sure you  
do *not* get a V-BRI card. Those will not do Fax.

jens



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How about the "Digium Wildcard B410P" card? It seems to be Digium, it 
has hardware echo cancel and I can buy this in Romania. Is this card any 
good?

Cosmin Prund wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I need a BRI ISDN card that works in Romania. I already have one of 
> the "Cologne HFC-S" PCI cards and it doesn't work right,
it's junk. I
> get waaaay too much echo using it. I'm now "shopping" for a
better
> card. Can anyone recommend me a card that "fits" the following:
>
> (a) Costs less then $1000 / 750 euro
> (b) Has one or (preferably) two ISDN S0 interfaces.
> (c) Easy to set up.
> (d) Drivers offer proper echo-canceling OR has an hardware echo 
> canceler. I might increase the $1000 a bit if I can get good hardware 
> echo canceler...
>
> Thanks,
> Cosmin Prund
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We are using Sirrix (http://www.sirrix.com).

4* BRI for app. ? 550.

Works fine; has echo cancellation as well.

Cosmin Prund wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I need a BRI ISDN card that works in Romania. I already have one of 
> the "Cologne HFC-S" PCI cards and it doesn't work right,
it's junk. I
> get waaaay too much echo using it. I'm now "shopping" for a
better
> card. Can anyone recommend me a card that "fits" the following:
>
> (a) Costs less then $1000 / 750 euro
> (b) Has one or (preferably) two ISDN S0 interfaces.
> (c) Easy to set up.
> (d) Drivers offer proper echo-canceling OR has an hardware echo 
> canceler. I might increase the $1000 a bit if I can get good hardware 
> echo canceler...
>
> Thanks,
> Cosmin Prund
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