asterisk users - Jul 2007 - Next Friday at 12:30 PM EDT: Asterisk Users Conference TDM inside and outside the box

Hi,

I am going to be on the road for the next few days and with the
variable delay on the mailing list, I am posting this now, 4 days
before the conference. If you haven't yet listened or participated,
please consider doing it. We have a great kernel of people at all
levels of expertise and ideas and questions can be kicked around
immediately (well, there's a few milliseconds lag).

This Friday we'll be talking about TDM solutions including ATA that do
IAX and SIP without opening the box and installing a card. Your
experience in this area would be appreciated. If you sell these
solutions come over and "pimp" them.

You can find us here:

 http://AsteriskUsersConference.org

At this site there are three main conference pages, how to listen or
participate, a player page for the archived recordings and a page with
the extension for a SIP connection to the conference bridge. There are
also two links to other pages, a related blog and AsteriskTV which
will be getting more and better content and more formats due to the
issue of Flash not being compatible with 64-bit systems. I'm working
on this now and hope to have that done by mid September. If anyone
knows how to convert mp3 to oog on a FreeBSD system, let me know. The
video issues are going to be more complicated so if you have
suggestions, please post them or email them to me.

Thanks to the numerous people who have been supportive of these
efforts including Mark Spencer and the guys at Digium.

randy

Hi folks,

The August 3 edition of our Friday conference call and podcast kicks
off in just over and hour. I know the list isn't delivering properly
but if a few people  get this it'll be better than none.

We are going to be talking today about TDM inside and outside the box.
I own some antiiquated X100P FXO and a couple of TDM400p with the FXS
modules. This is how our company's litle pbx talks to two incoming
POTS lines and three regular phones connected to it. It also has a
long list of IAX and SIP providers connecting it to the rest of the
world. I am currently in the US so I use one of my 800 numbers to take
control of the asterisk box in Paris and make "local" calls in France
for a few pennies a minute. We also can send and receive SMS and of
course receive vmail via email.

But enough about me. What are you doing about connecting? And more to
today's point, what ATA are you using to connect without opening the
box and installing hardware?

Digium makes the IAXy, Sipura (whatever the name is today) has several
SIP models,  Grand<cough>stream as well. What else is out there and
how well do they work?

Join us:

 http://AsteriskUsersConference.org

As Matt said somewhere, this conference is like a forum. It's a chance
for you to give back some of the valuable information and experience
into the community without writing a line of code. I've been using
asterisk for a few years and while I don't write code for it, I've
experimented a lot with lots of hardware and a long list of providers.
I've had time to learn a lot about the real world of all this stuff
and I'm willing to share what I know. How about you?



On 7/29/07, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am going to be on the road for the next few days and with the
> variable delay on the mailing list, I am posting this now, 4 days
> before the conference. If you haven't yet listened or participated,
> please consider doing it. We have a great kernel of people at all
> levels of expertise and ideas and questions can be kicked around
> immediately (well, there's a few milliseconds lag).
>
> This Friday we'll be talking about TDM solutions including ATA that do
> IAX and SIP without opening the box and installing a card. Your
> experience in this area would be appreciated. If you sell these
> solutions come over and "pimp" them.
>
> You can find us here:
>
>  http://AsteriskUsersConference.org
>
> At this site there are three main conference pages, how to listen or
> participate, a player page for the archived recordings and a page with
> the extension for a SIP connection to the conference bridge. There are
> also two links to other pages, a related blog and AsteriskTV which
> will be getting more and better content and more formats due to the
> issue of Flash not being compatible with 64-bit systems. I'm working
> on this now and hope to have that done by mid September. If anyone
> knows how to convert mp3 to oog on a FreeBSD system, let me know. The
> video issues are going to be more complicated so if you have
> suggestions, please post them or email them to me.
>
> Thanks to the numerous people who have been supportive of these
> efforts including Mark Spencer and the guys at Digium.
>
> randy
>