You, and the rest of the country, my friend. Jim
-- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Sweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: December 1, 2006 4:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Digium Wildcard B410P > > Thanks for everyone's advice on this. I think I will stay > working with my PRI's. I really like them (PRI/T-1) because I > get very little headache from my customers. They rarely go > down, caller Id, always clear etc. I guess you get what you > pay for...sometimes. > > However if anyone has any advice about reducing costs on > PRI's I would happy to hear about it. > > Justin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Digium Wildcard B410P > > In theory this should work. In practice, you are going to > suffer . . . a lot. > > First off, I am assuming you are in Bell Canada territory. > Since Bell delivers Microlink (their BRI service) on a > U-interface, you will need a device called an NT-1 to convert > from the U-interface to the S/T-interface the Digium card > requires. That's going to add a few hundred bucks to your > equipment cost (assuming you can even find someone who sells them). > > The next challenge is that Bell does not support any kind of > trunking services on Microlink. Back in the mid-90s Nortel > came out with BRI on their Norstar KSU, and since PRI was not > yet available, we all jumped into ordering multiple Microlink > circuits. Not pretty. Nobody did that for more than a few > months; you can only stand to lose so many customers. Things > like hunting and such didn't work the way we needed them to, > and the folks at Bell didn't have any clue how the service > was supposed to work, or what was supposed to be possible > (nor did they care). > > Next, the DIDs. I would imagine that it would be possible to > deliver DNIS on a BRI, but I have never seen it done, and I > would be very surprised if Bell has a process in place to > deliver this. > > The sad truth about BRI in most of North America is that it > died over 10 years ago. It's ubiquitous in Europe, but here > it is as good as dead and buried. > > I wish this were not true, and maybe if hundreds of us > started ordering it we could change the industry, but the > reality is that you can expect a lot of pain, if you dare to > mess with BRI on this side of the pond. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Justin Sweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: December 1, 2006 10:34 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Digium Wildcard B410P > > > > http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/b410p.php > > > > Hi; > > > > Has anyone had any experience with the Digium B410P card? > > > > > > > > What I want to do is... > > > > Interface and ISDN line to an Asterisk Box and use it as a > PRI Trunk > > (in this case it will be a BRI) Then port multiple DID's. > > > > This should give me 2 B channels instead of 24 B Channels and a lot > > cheaper! I really don't need 24 channels for most small business > > applications. > > > > Is this doable? > > > > Justin > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
