asterisk users - Mar 2008 - RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 - anyone used it or another TDMoE bridge?

I've been asked to look at deploying Asterisk in a high availability
environment and I've been looking so I've been searching for methods to
decouple the voice PRI circuits from the Asterisk server so failover to
another server could take place.

I've been looking at the RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 product here:

http://www.mapleleaf-technologies.com/webstore/redfone_fonebridge2_2e1.php

Has anyone used this device (or something similar)? What were your thoughts
on it? On the surface this seems like a perfect method of building high
availability Asterisk environments, but I'm a little hesitant to spend a few
grand just to find out it's a pipe dream.
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We used it in our installation and had some issues. We were passing fax and
modem calls through via the second port as a TDM bridged call. For some reason,
the timing was off even though we explicitly set the timing in the redfone.conf
file. We replaced it with a Sangoma A102d and haven't been happier.

FWIW, it worked just fine for voice calls. It was only problematic with data
communications.


-Jon


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Subject: [asterisk-users] RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 - anyone used it or another
TDMoE bridge?


I've been asked to look at deploying Asterisk in a high availability
environment and I've been looking so I've been searching for methods to
decouple the voice PRI circuits from the Asterisk server so failover to another
server could take place.

I've been looking at the RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 product here: 

http://www.mapleleaf-technologies.com/webstore/redfone_fonebridge2_2e1.php 

Has anyone used this device (or something similar)? What were your thoughts on
it? On the surface this seems like a perfect method of building high
availability Asterisk environments, but I'm a little hesitant to spend a few
grand just to find out it's a pipe dream.

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Also to add to the last post does this device have hardware echo
cancelation?
if it does it could be a great replacement, if not may not be what I'd
really want to use.
 
Thanks,
tom
 

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To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 - anyone used it oranother
TDMoE bridge?


I've been asked to look at deploying Asterisk in a high availability
environment and I've been looking so I've been searching for methods to
decouple the voice PRI circuits from the Asterisk server so failover to
another server could take place.

I've been looking at the RedFone foneBRIDGE2 2e1 product here:

http://www.mapleleaf-technologies.com/webstore/redfone_fonebridge2_2e1.php

Has anyone used this device (or something similar)? What were your thoughts
on it? On the surface this seems like a perfect method of building high
availability Asterisk environments, but I'm a little hesitant to spend a few
grand just to find out it's a pipe dream.

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