That little Digium adapter S101I is a nice and compact (good for travel) but has a serious limitation, it doesn't support bridging. If I have four/five of these units registered to my asterisk server (over the Internet) and with standard DSL or Cable connection all for of them connected and in use (utilizing G711); my upload bandwidth will get saturated as all of them have to go via my Asterisk server (according do Digium support). They don't support bridging mode. I think this limitation seriously cripple these devices. Why is so hard to implement bridging? Any links explaining how is it done? How FWD solved this problem? -- #Joseph
Hi! Everyone, This IP phone came configured for to be used with Soyo VoIP service. I would like to set it up to work with my asterisk server with IAX2. I followed the procedure described on the Soyo website, but samething strange happens during the firmware actualization that makes the display half black, and the telephone did not work well. I changed the device for a new one, but before update the firmware again I would like to listen someone who would like to share experiences or give me a hint about it... Thanks in advance, Alcides
This is a PA-1688 chip phone. Give a look at http://www.aredfox.com/. It has what you need. Look for Pamtool. Isamar On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alcides Cremonezi wrote:> Hi! Everyone, > > This IP phone came configured for to be used with Soyo VoIP service. > I would like to set it up to work with my asterisk server with IAX2. > I followed the procedure described on the Soyo website, but samething > strange happens during the firmware actualization that makes the display > half black, and the telephone did not work well. > I changed the device for a new one, but before update the firmware again I > would like to listen someone who would like to share experiences or give me > a hint about it... > > Thanks in advance, > > Alcides > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Joseph wrote:> They don't support bridging mode. I think this limitation seriously > cripple these devices. > Why is so hard to implement bridging? Any links explaining how is it > done?What do you mean by 'bridging'? This is a single port device, it doesn't have anything to bridge. If you mean that you want two of them to be able to send the audio streams directly to each other, then this can be done by setting 'notransfer=no' (for Asterisk 1.2) or 'transfer=yes' (for Asterisk 1.4), to allow the Asterisk server to push the call out to the endpoints after the call has been setup. Keep in mind though that you will lose control of the call at that point, so if you need to keep accurate CDRs this technique will not work for you (this is a limitation of the IAX2 protocol that has been rectified in Asterisk 1.4, but Asterisk 1.4 is the only endpoint the currently implements IAX2 media-only transfers).