20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
9:36 a.m.
The P8 card is basic, not primary rate.
There are many vendors for channelised E1 PCI cards around now- try a
search on something like 'dual port E1 PCI" and you should get quite a
few.
Cheers
DaveB, NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sokolov" <msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: ISDN useless relic? Token Ring unkillable
Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
Sitting on my desk I have a totally neat Harmonix
Hi-Card P8, a PCI
card
that I think can talk to 4 primary ISDN lines [...]
Did you say ISDN *Primary* Rate Interface (PRI), the big expensive
one
that carries 23 (in North America) or 30 (in Europe) B channels, NOT
the 2B+D Basic Rate Interface (BRI)? So it's basically a
channelised
T1/E1 card, right? Do you know if it can do E1 or just T1? If it
can do E1, my friend Stacy Minkin in Uzbekistan was looking for a
PCI
channelised E1 card and probably still is. It isn't ISDN, though,
just a channelised E1. He wants to connect an E1 line from their
old
municipal telephone switch (classic traditional telephony, pre-ISDN,
pre-other modern innovations) to an Asterisk Linux-based VoIP
gateway.
MS