[*] PRI channel banks

[John Lange]

The original diagram did not make sense to me. What is a PRI channel
bank?  And why would you run 3 asterisk servers interconnected to 3
asterisk servers?

A "channel bank" is something you use to drive analog phones its not
something that connects to the PSTN.

The "RedFone Communications foneBridge" is an ok value considering it
includes a 4 port TDM card but I find it strange that they are
advocating it for redundancy when it has no fail-over capabilities. What
happens when the foneBridge breaks?

I'd be inclined to agree with Les and just install 2 (or 3) Asterisk
servers with TDM cards and ask the PRI supplier to do fail-over on the
PRIs which is something they can easily do.

-- 
John Lange
OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 18:55 -0600, Bill Reid wrote:
> LES.NET (1996) INC. wrote:
> > That foneBridge is totally not worth it.
> > 
> > You can get a Quad PRI card and a cheap-o PC for hundreds less, and do the
> > same thing.
> > 
> > Since there is no codec translation (its all G.711), you can use a cheap-o
> > celeron, and TDMOE ..   of course, it wont be a tiny little box.. but
> > you'll have complete control over it, AND even a dialplan.
> 
> True but since it is a single point of failure it may be more reliable than a 
> cheap PC with disk, etc.
> 
> -- Bill
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