TheGreyElf
New Member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2007
- Messages
- 11
- Reaction score
- 1
Hey Ward,
You may remember me. I'm the guy that wrote the "Definitive" page out the soundcard (for overhead paging) guide way back in the A@H 0.x - 1.x days.
I would recommend to anyone if they're doing anything with T-1/PRIs at all to look at Red Fone's foneBridge. It's a dual or quad PRI module that lives OUTSIDE the system and uses Asterisk's Native TDMoE (Time Division Multiplexing over Ethernet) to talk to PC. T-1 to foneBridge - foneBridge to ethernet Port on the Asterisk box (I recommend a dedicated NIC but you don't have to.) Works Great. Has the built-in feature of High Availability - failover to an alternate Asterisk server easily. Also because it is outside the server NO IRQ or Chipset Issues!!! They have also just released a Hardware Echo Cancellation version of it.
There is only one issue. There is a bug in the Zaptel code that breaks TDMoE and Digium is aware of it but has yet to fix it. Red Fone therefore makes a patch for Zaptel to fix it. You just have to apply and recompile Zaptel, buuuuuuuttt.... If YOU GUYS could roll that into the ISO and maybe a future script to automagically handle it during/after a Zaptel Update that would be way cool.
Thanks,
Tracy
You may remember me. I'm the guy that wrote the "Definitive" page out the soundcard (for overhead paging) guide way back in the A@H 0.x - 1.x days.
I would recommend to anyone if they're doing anything with T-1/PRIs at all to look at Red Fone's foneBridge. It's a dual or quad PRI module that lives OUTSIDE the system and uses Asterisk's Native TDMoE (Time Division Multiplexing over Ethernet) to talk to PC. T-1 to foneBridge - foneBridge to ethernet Port on the Asterisk box (I recommend a dedicated NIC but you don't have to.) Works Great. Has the built-in feature of High Availability - failover to an alternate Asterisk server easily. Also because it is outside the server NO IRQ or Chipset Issues!!! They have also just released a Hardware Echo Cancellation version of it.
There is only one issue. There is a bug in the Zaptel code that breaks TDMoE and Digium is aware of it but has yet to fix it. Red Fone therefore makes a patch for Zaptel to fix it. You just have to apply and recompile Zaptel, buuuuuuuttt.... If YOU GUYS could roll that into the ISO and maybe a future script to automagically handle it during/after a Zaptel Update that would be way cool.
Thanks,
Tracy
Phone System 