asterisk users - Jan 2008 - Modem bridging on Asterisk (no VoIP involved)

Hi everybody.

I know maybe this question has been posted some time ago, but
I need your updated opinion on the subject.

I'm replacing our old pbx with asterisk.
I have two TE207 dual pri (e1) cards on a clustered system
(one on each node).

I absolutely need to connect 4/5 analog extensions with
modems, they're being used for remote assistance on very
old systems which cannot be upgraded to native IP links.

Is there a good hardware that can bridge the e1 lines
on the digium te207 card to my modems?
A PCI card? An external box?

I don't want to relay modem connections over ip,
I just need to bridge them internally on the asterisk server:

E1 ==> TE207 ==> Asterisk ==> (some hardware with FXS) ==> modems

TIA for your replies.

-- 
Alberto Pastore
B-Press Srl - Gruppo MSoft
P.IVA 01697420030
P.le Lombardia, 4 - 28100 Novara - Italy
Tel. 0321-499508
Fax 0321-492974
http://www.msoft.it

Hi Alberto,

I think that here you can find useful hw:

http://www.patapsco.co.uk/

Marino

On Jan 23, 2008 9:39 AM, Alberto Pastore <alberto at msoft-italia.com>
wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I know maybe this question has been posted some time ago, but
> I need your updated opinion on the subject.
>
> I'm replacing our old pbx with asterisk.
> I have two TE207 dual pri (e1) cards on a clustered system
> (one on each node).
>
> I absolutely need to connect 4/5 analog extensions with
> modems, they're being used for remote assistance on very
> old systems which cannot be upgraded to native IP links.
>
> Is there a good hardware that can bridge the e1 lines
> on the digium te207 card to my modems?
> A PCI card? An external box?
>
> I don't want to relay modem connections over ip,
> I just need to bridge them internally on the asterisk server:
>
> E1 ==> TE207 ==> Asterisk ==> (some hardware with FXS) ==>
modems
>
> TIA for your replies.
>
> --
> Alberto Pastore
> B-Press Srl - Gruppo MSoft
> P.IVA 01697420030
> P.le Lombardia, 4 - 28100 Novara - Italy
> Tel. 0321-499508
> Fax 0321-492974
> http://www.msoft.it
>
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On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:39 +0100, Alberto Pastore
wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I know maybe this question has been posted some time ago, but
> I need your updated opinion on the subject.
> 
> I'm replacing our old pbx with asterisk.
> I have two TE207 dual pri (e1) cards on a clustered system
> (one on each node).
> 
> I absolutely need to connect 4/5 analog extensions with
> modems, they're being used for remote assistance on very
> old systems which cannot be upgraded to native IP links.
> 
> Is there a good hardware that can bridge the e1 lines
> on the digium te207 card to my modems?
> A PCI card? An external box?
> 
> I don't want to relay modem connections over ip,
> I just need to bridge them internally on the asterisk server:
> 
> E1 ==> TE207 ==> Asterisk ==> (some hardware with FXS) ==>
modems
> 
> TIA for your replies.
> 
Xorcom make things that work for this....56k might not be attainable,
but lower speeds definitely are.

http://www.xorcom.com/

PaulH