On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Dave Sherman wrote: > I'll have to look into those -- any idea how they compare with Digium, > in "bang for the buck"? Everyone I know who's used the cards love them; unfortunately, that's about the extent of my experience. :( > If Eric is already spending $300/month or more on 8 analog lines, a BRI > line could be very cost-effective, making this is a good suggestion. Actually, in that case, a PRI would be the route to go.. BRI's are old-fashioned ISDN with 2 channels plus signalling; PRI's can have up to 23 channels (plus one signalling channel.) > We tried it (using the latest version of asterisk compiled from source), > but to be honest, hit a wall when Asterisk would core dump every time a > fax came in. Since we were under a bit of time pressure (to put it > mildly), we went the "easy route" and just got a couple of analog lines > from Qwest. Nothing wrong with that! :) > This is something we definitely want to investigate in the near future, > though, since it would save us a bit of cash, and add some nice > functionality to the system. Every DID can become an instant "fax > machine", effectively giving each office user their own personal fax. Exactly - and fax via e-mail is much nicer than fax via paper! > Good to know. They must keep a lot of processing in the card itself, > rather than sending it to the CPU, right? Otherwise I can't see how this > would work. Correct - Digium gives you the prices they do by doing a lot of the processing on the host CPU; Sangoma does the processing on the card (and costs more), but also lets you do more on one box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------