Any timeframe? Regards, Alejandro
Steve Underwood said: > John Todd wrote: > >>> LQ (Asterisk) wrote: >>> >>>> Dear fellows, >>>> >>>> I need to use Asterisk with an E1 card with CAS R2 signalling for >>>> Argentina. >>>> I know that the E100P don't support it right now. >>>> >>> Correct >>> >>>> Does anybody developing R2 drivers? >>>> >>> Yes. >> >> >> Interestingly terse reply; perhaps you can be more specific? >> >> I have an interest in the same drivers, and there was some discussion >> a week ago (two weeks?) on the topic, specifically about how a driver >> might be written, but I heard no confirmation that there was progress >> or any timeframes. >> >> Anyone have any encouraging updates for those of us waiting for R2? > > I've been more specific in the past. This was just a brief recap, since > its the same question each time (OK, the country varies, but not much > else). > > The work was held up by SARS, as the testing has been done in China. Now > the SARS threat has abated, I hope we will see a polished China R2 > soon. Every other country requires modifications, as no two countries > implement R2 in quite the same way. However, the software has been > written with all the variants in mind, and completing support for other > countries should be pretty straightforward, once it is a proven platform > in China. > > You will find some elements of R2ness in CVS. That is work I did over a > year ago, then left unfinished. The DSP part of that is OK, although I > have improved it recently. The rest was a lash-up, which has now been > totally replaced by a solid implementation. I have a new channel driver > for Asterisk, which supports R2 and PRI with the Zaptel drivers. My > intention is to add other protocols, so this becomes a replacement for > chan_zap. The way chan_zap works had some flexibility issues for me, so > I have tried to steer everything through a generalised signalling API. > On one side are plug in protocols - currently PRI and R2. On the other > side is Asterisk. Hopefully, this will allow new protocols to plug in > with little or no change to anything in Asterisk. This is somewhat like > Dialogic's GlobalCall, but hopefully without so much of their > clunkiness. :-) > > FAQ: Can I help with testing, and be an early adopter? > > No. I have all the testers I need right now. Until I have it well > proven, with E1's full of calls pumping through it, I am not interesting > in having other testers involved. I expect the assistance of other > testers will be needed later, to deal with issues arising from the local > variants of R2. Help at that time will be most appreciated. > > Regards, > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users