Don't forget that Dialogic is owned by Intel.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> > Mike Ford <mikeford_at_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.
>
> Your best bet for getting something like this is the Booktrout
> Technologies RTNI-2E1 (formally produced by Rhetorex). It's got two E1
> spans on the card and is very flexible so it should be able to be made to
> work in Uzbekistan (it has upgradeable firmware).
>
> http://www.brooktrout.com/products/rtni/index.cfm
>
> Unfortunately, it's an ISA board. Check out their Vantage series which is
> all PCI. I'm not sure if they have a Vantage E1 card but probably.
>
> You could also try Dialogic and Natural Microsystems, but Rhetorex (now
> Brooktrout) was what I used and they made good products. Dialogic is the
> Microsoft of the PC telephony world (lots of marketing hype but mostly
> crap products) and NMS were a bunch of snakes. Hssssss.
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
> Festival
>
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Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 16:47:58 BST