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Hello. It seems very very strange to me that nobody talks about connecting ISDN lines to asterisk using a device with RCAPI Support. There are some devices (most of them isdn routers, like the famous Cisco 800 family) that support this protocol. It basically is an ISDN to IP gateway. There used to be software that used this technology to send and receive faxes, act as voicemail and even ISDN softphone. RVS-Com is such...

...more and more available in Australia and our clients upgrade. Does anyone know if those routers can make the ISDN channels available in a way that can be used by Asterisk? Preferably in a fairly raw form, eg not SIP. Further investigation reveals that the 801 can be a server for something called rcapi, net-capi, or ISDN-DCP, from RCS-COM (which I think is a company or product that uses it). This doesn't appear compatible with any of the existing remote capi solutions available for Linux. Can anyone elaborate? Details of the ISDN-DCP protocol seem a bit hard to find... Thanks James