Re: Asterisk kit needed

["Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <ukha@b...> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> forgive the erratic nature of this reply, I'm brain dumping ideas
here...
>
> OK> dump brain
>
> ok, It looks to me like you have
>
> 3 x FXO lines 2 allocated to your business side and one for home..
> 2 x FXS lines for either a single 2 line DECT base station or 2
separate ones.
>
> (I'm not familiar with what BT HomeHighway really gives you (I live
in .NL  - so we dont have it :P) - is that 2 analog and one isdn? or
is this shared? If you need an isdn line connection then I'd suggest
the CAPI devKit... @ 110 euro - see
http://ns1.jnetdns.de/jn/relaunch/asterisk/page15.html
_
>
> (Please note that the AVM Fritz PCI only supports EuroISDN!)

Business Highway & Home Highway are EuroISDN2e (BRI) - just two
digital circuits which happen to include an integral terminal adapter
which breaks out a couple of "hidden" MSNs onto analogue ports
(these
can be moved to the digital ports on request, so moving to a digital
only solution is easy enough). I have an AVM Fritz working fine with
the CAPI drivers - the only minor fiddle was getting MSN numbering
right. (Andy: FYI, Home Highway doesn't support CLIP or MSN, as a
marketing restriction; Business Highway does).


> For the audio feed from the house you'll need a soundcard that
works under linux .. soundblasters seem to be ok, but someone here
may have a better suggestion on that..


Or a SIP phone capable of auto-answering and supporting headset jacks
(e.g. SNOM, I think). Expensive, but low hassle in config terms. For
that matter a SIP softphone running on any PC on the network which
supports autoanswer should also be up to the job.

Patrick (with apologies for descending into telco acronym soup)