I have been making ever-increasing use of my asterisk PBX, and I'm ready to switch over to using it as my sole phone management system - but I'm faced today with trying to reduce complexity and/or improve reliability today, and add direct dialed SIP support....
1) I could add one or two isdn cards to a cisco 2600 I have in a box. I've looked over the sip support in the 12.3 release of IOS and it appears quite complete - and also quite complex.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5187/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00801fa1d9.html
It's unclear to me how to configure dialout for local calls via asterisk, etc, etc, or whether the common ISDN module WIC-1B-U or ST or whatever is the "right thing" if I want to do both voice and data...
+s are the cisco is gonna stay up, and
-s are less control over the packet prioritization than I can get cleanly... and tons of IOS commands to figure out.
I keep thinking about adding additional isdn lines so I can get a touch more bandwidth and phone lines, and there are multiple 4-bri cards available for the 2600 on ebay - but that's not my first priority
2) I could add an isdn card to the Linux box. This seems to me to be the cleanest solution, I'd make my firewall also be the asterisk server, and hopefully gain some control of tcp flows that way to more highly prioritize voice traffic
+apparent simplicity, maybe fax support
-s it seems most of the ISDN cards in isdn4linux are not sold in the US, the technology is stagnant, and I'm less than enthused about statements like "Any CAPI based ISDN card will work" when I'd prefer something like ISDN card XXX tested on an opteron running kernel X.Y.Z, using multi-link ppp and and asterisk, no problems....
Any thoughts, sample configurations, other ideas? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
