This has potential for your needs I think http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=news/ds3000p
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Todd Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:54 PM To: Asterisk on BSD discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] OT: Data DS1/Channelized DS3 terms for FreeBSD. At 6:07 PM -0600 on 4/26/05, Forrest W. Christian wrote: >I realize that this is slightly off-topic, but I'm not sure where to >ask... And since it does have some overlap with voip... > >I'm looking for an option to terminate a fair number of T1 channels into a >freebsd box. These for HDLC (or PPP) encapsulated data. In short, we're >buying a T1 PtP loop from us to the customer and using it for voice and >data. > >I really would like to avoid having a large pile of boxes just terminating >T1's. Everything I'm finding does a maximum of about 4T1's per U, or is >really expensive. > >I would *love* to find a multiport T1 card for FreeBSD which does data >well and that we can put multiple ones in the same chassis. The other, >probably preferred, option would be a Channelized DS3 card for FreeBSD >which we can then either just take a DS3 from the ILEC or put a 1U DS3 mux >in. > >Does such a beast exist? What options are available for multiport T1 >cards or Channelized (to the T1 level) DS3 cards which work with FreeBSD? > >I'm aware of the Digium 4 port cards, but I understand they may have data >issues, plus I'm not sure about putting more than one in a box ... It >sounds like this isn't a possibility. > >It sounds like the sangoma 4 port card works well for data but I'm not >sure about FreeBSD suport. > >Can anyone shed any more light on this? > >-forrest Hooo boy, this concept has been worked over twice in the last year and a half, with no real progress or consensus. There is at least one company that can do this from a hardware perspective (http://www.sbei.net), but my take on things is that any person/company willing to fund the integration into Asterisk is not interested in making such code available back to the community. In any case, there are few people who need a DS3's worth of TDM, so it's a very narrow niche. Follow these threads to find out who's interested in this discussion: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-December/029309.html and then about a year later: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2004-November/007390.html JT _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
