Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have a business customer in the U.S. (Michigan, AT&T Territory). I need to get 4 trunks into an asterisk Box. My intention is to use an Eicon Diva Server card with 2 BRI Circuits. The reason for this is that the business needs DID's on the trunks (20 of them). A full or fractional PRI is overboard for them, as they will never need more than four channels. I also don't really want to go with any kind of analog trunk for other reasons (Disconnect supervision, potential echo problems, etc..) I've called AT&T About a dozen times now, and no-one can tell me who to call in order to get a BRI. Is anyone familiar with how to order a BRI from AT&T (Or a CLEC that covers Michigan)? I need 2 BRI Circuits (4 B Channels) with 20 DIDs accross the 4 circuits. Also, can anyone confirm that an Eicon Diva Server BRI Card will in fact support North American BRI? Are there any less expensive cards that will handle North American BRI? Any help highly appreciated Bill
When I ordered BRI in Michigan (25 miles N. of Detroit) It was still SBC. I also had a hard time finding the right dept. I do not know if it changed since then, but I had to order BRI from the same department that sells P2P T1s, and DSL. Even though it was a voice service, the data group sold it. -- -- Steven http://www.glimasoutheast.org <sales at failsafevoip.com> wrote in message news:2186.76.112.71.127.1186770394.squirrel at www.failsafevoip.com...> Hello everyone, > > I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have a business customer in > the U.S. (Michigan, AT&T Territory). > > I need to get 4 trunks into an asterisk Box. My intention is to use an > Eicon Diva Server card with 2 BRI Circuits. The reason for this is that > the business needs DID's on the trunks (20 of them). A full or fractional > PRI is overboard for them, as they will never need more than four > channels. I also don't really want to go with any kind of analog trunk > for other reasons (Disconnect supervision, potential echo problems, etc..) > > I've called AT&T About a dozen times now, and no-one can tell me who to > call in order to get a BRI. > > Is anyone familiar with how to order a BRI from AT&T (Or a CLEC that > covers Michigan)? I need 2 BRI Circuits (4 B Channels) with 20 DIDs > accross the 4 circuits. Also, can anyone confirm that an Eicon Diva > Server BRI Card will in fact support North American BRI? > > Are there any less expensive cards that will handle North American BRI? > > Any help highly appreciated > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Bill, I am not aware of any commercial Asterisk-compatible cards that support North American BRIs right out of the box. The best I have been able to come up with was a card sold on eBay, where the seller promises to supply a patch that needs to be applied to Asterisk (based on BRIstuff) so that it will support North American BRIs. The driver allows only one SPID per BRI, so multiple DID/MSNs are not supported. Fortunately, PRIs are relatively cheap in California. As such, I have not yet made a concerted effort to find a card that does all that I need over BRI -- though I am really interested in having this capability. I wish the Digium BRI card had the drivers for North American ISDN. Such a shame that they went to the effort of getting FCC approval, but didn't bother to do the work to actually make it work in the US. As for ordering BRIs from AT&T: In California, there is an ISDN group that handles PRI/BRI orders. They are available at 1-800-4PB-ISDN. I believe the correct number for Michigan is 1-800-552-8647. If that is incorrect, or they do not know about BRIs, call the California number and ask if they have the corresponding number for Michigan. Hope this was of some assistance. Sincerely, Trevor Hammonds -----Original Message----- From: sales at failsafevoip.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:27 AM Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have a business customer in the U.S. (Michigan, AT&T Territory). I need to get 4 trunks into an asterisk Box. My intention is to use an Eicon Diva Server card with 2 BRI Circuits. The reason for this is that the business needs DID's on the trunks (20 of them). A full or fractional PRI is overboard for them, as they will never need more than four channels. I also don't really want to go with any kind of analog trunk for other reasons (Disconnect supervision, potential echo problems, etc..) I've called AT&T About a dozen times now, and no-one can tell me who to call in order to get a BRI. Is anyone familiar with how to order a BRI from AT&T (Or a CLEC that covers Michigan)? I need 2 BRI Circuits (4 B Channels) with 20 DIDs accross the 4 circuits. Also, can anyone confirm that an Eicon Diva Server BRI Card will in fact support North American BRI? Are there any less expensive cards that will handle North American BRI? Any help highly appreciated Bill