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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 5:17 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz


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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 8:53 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

2015-05-26 12:17 GMT+02:00 Lukasz Sokol <el.es.cr@gmail.com (el.es.cr@gmail.com)>:
Quote:
Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)


I would suggest to also consider Digium Hx8  boards which exist in PCI format.


[1] http://www.digium.com/en/products/telephony-cards/hybrid/h8


Quote:
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
 in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz


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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:00 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Checkout Beronet ISDN cards and Berofix Gateway (appliance or pci card)

Personally for my last installation I chose Berofix card which is rock solid and reliable, yet easily configurable.


With berofix you don't need telephony drivers on the host system, the isdn card is detected as a NIC and all configuration is done using a web interface.


Then you configure FreePBX a new trunk to use the berofix IP and that's it!


This way the mISDN and other channel drivers' burden is skipped and works very well for me so far!










On 26 May 2015 at 16:52, Olivier <oza.4h07@gmail.com (oza.4h07@gmail.com)> wrote:
Quote:


2015-05-26 12:17 GMT+02:00 Lukasz Sokol <el.es.cr@gmail.com (el.es.cr@gmail.com)>:
Quote:
Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)


I would suggest to also consider Digium Hx8  boards which exist in PCI format.


[1] http://www.digium.com/en/products/telephony-cards/hybrid/h8


Quote:
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
 in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz


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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:08 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Beronet Gateway BFSB2HY , it works well for me two.

From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Markos Vakondios
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 4:00 PM
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Checkout Beronet ISDN cards and Berofix Gateway (appliance or pci card)


Personally for my last installation I chose Berofix card which is rock solid and reliable, yet easily configurable.



With berofix you don't need telephony drivers on the host system, the isdn card is detected as a NIC and all configuration is done using a web interface.



Then you configure FreePBX a new trunk to use the berofix IP and that's it!



This way the mISDN and other channel drivers' burden is skipped and works very well for me so far!











On 26 May 2015 at 16:52, Olivier <oza.4h07@gmail.com (oza.4h07@gmail.com)> wrote:
Quote:



2015-05-26 12:17 GMT+02:00 Lukasz Sokol <el.es.cr@gmail.com (el.es.cr@gmail.com)>:
Quote:

Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)



I would suggest to also consider Digium Hx8 boards which exist in PCI format.


[1] http://www.digium.com/en/products/telephony-cards/hybrid/h8
Quote:

(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz


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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 11:08 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

On 26/05/15 14:52, Olivier wrote:
Quote:


2015-05-26 12:17 GMT+02:00 Lukasz Sokol <el.es.cr@gmail.com <mailto:el.es.cr@gmail.com>>:

Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)


I would suggest to also consider Digium Hx8 boards which exist in PCI format.


[1] http://www.digium.com/en/products/telephony-cards/hybrid/h8

Looked these up, looks interesting too, thanks.

Lukasz




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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 11:15 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Hi,

Looking that up too, Interesting, thanks !

Lukasz

On 26/05/15 14:59, Markos Vakondios wrote:
Quote:
Checkout Beronet ISDN cards and Berofix Gateway (appliance or pci
card)

Personally for my last installation I chose Berofix card which is
rock solid and reliable, yet easily configurable.

With berofix you don't need telephony drivers on the host system, the
isdn card is detected as a NIC and all configuration is done using a
web interface.

Then you configure FreePBX a new trunk to use the berofix IP and
that's it!

This way the mISDN and other channel drivers' burden is skipped and
works very well for me so far!





On 26 May 2015 at 16:52, Olivier <oza.4h07@gmail.com
<mailto:oza.4h07@gmail.com>> wrote:



2015-05-26 12:17 GMT+02:00 Lukasz Sokol <el.es.cr@gmail.com
<mailto:el.es.cr@gmail.com>>:

Hi, please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public
forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is
available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT), but
any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s); I wish to extend it to
accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium
B410P... (the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still
only ever has PCI2.0 slots, no PCIE)


I would suggest to also consider Digium Hx8 boards which exist in
PCI format.


[1] http://www.digium.com/en/products/telephony-cards/hybrid/h8

(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is
somewhat, well... in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX -
you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards, Lukasz


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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2015 2:56 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Replying to myself Smile thanks for all the suggestions, they are helpful.
but if someone, somewhere, whatever time zone you're in,
can bear to answer a few n00b questions, regarding any of the mentioned cards,
please email me Smile
(in case gmane hid my email : el (dot) es (dot) cr (at) (the google mail service)...)

Thanks in advance,
Lukasz


On 26/05/15 11:17, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
Quote:
Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz





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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2015 11:19 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

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I'm happy with OpenVox BRI ISDN cards, using Dahdi.


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Le 26/05/2015 00:17, Lukasz Sokol a écrit :
Quote:
Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public f
orum)
Quote:

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available
...
Quote:

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels
/ 3 ports).
Quote:

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has
PCI2.0 slots,
Quote:
no PCIE)
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is
somewhat, well...
Quote:
in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you
're welcome... Smile
Quote:

Kind Regards,
Lukasz



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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 4:06 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Thank you all for valuable input,

another question: when do I actually need the echo cancellation
(hardware / on board /on module ) ?

Lukasz

On 26/05/15 11:17, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
Quote:
Hi,
please whoever has some expertise in choice of BRI ISDN cards,
please restore my faith in community support Smile

(on private email I can probably explain more than fits for a public forum)

Most I'd like to ask is about what to choose, out of what is available...

My locality is United Kingdom, lines from British Telecom (BT),
but any advice / pointers (I googled around already) are welcome...

My system to fit this card into, is FreePBX Distro with Asterisk 11,
already running with incoming SIP trunk(s);
I wish to extend it to accept incoming 'landline' ISDN BRI (6 channels / 3 ports).

So far the interesting option(s) were Sangoma A500 and Digium B410P...
(the appliance is adopted from an old desktop that still only ever has PCI2.0 slots,
no PCIE)
(there are also OpenVOX's cards, although their installation guide is somewhat, well...
in the old kernel era...)

Anyone who use(d) any of the above, not necessarily on a FreePBX - you're welcome... Smile

Kind Regards,
Lukasz





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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 4:18 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

Quote:
Thank you all for valuable input,

another question: when do I actually need the echo cancellation
(hardware / on board /on module ) ?

It depends on your environment. If there are still analog devices in addition to VoIP, I'd say
always, but Asterisk has a rudimentary echo canceller already on board. The Telcos use echo
cancellers themselves, but it cannot hurt to have a hardware canceller on your BRI card.

Nowadays I see more problems with reverberation in connection with cheap speakerphones or simple
mics and speakers on PCs, but that's a different story.

jh

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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:08 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Seeking advice about ISDN BRI Cards Reply with quote

On 28/05/15 10:18, jg wrote:
Quote:

Quote:
Thank you all for valuable input,

another question: when do I actually need the echo cancellation
(hardware / on board /on module ) ?

It depends on your environment. If there are still analog devices in
addition to VoIP, I'd say always, but Asterisk has a rudimentary echo
canceller already on board. The Telcos use echo cancellers
themselves, but it cannot hurt to have a hardware canceller on your
BRI card.

I am going to have to be more specific, I see...

We have the ISDN lines incoming into little boxes on the wall (BT ISDN 2e)
from where they are plugged into existing ISDN PBX. The ISDN2e boxes have 2 ports,
but 1 of each are connected to the ISDN PBX.

There is nothing else connected to the ISDN2e boxes, no phones connect to these
lines 'directly'.

Quote:

Nowadays I see more problems with reverberation in connection with
cheap speakerphones or simple mics and speakers on PCs, but that's a
different story.

jh


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