Re: [hylafax-users] DID Summary

["Andrew Lovell" <a.lovell@studioware.net>]

hmm... I take it that DID over a few BRI lines (in europe) will be the same
as long as the ISDN card supports it... ( I am thinking Sedlbauer range )
... and the telco (in my case Portugal Telecom aka Portugal Telecrap ) also
send the right signals. Right?

Yan... do you mind if I put the contents of this page on a web site? maybe
it'll help some other poor sod's in finding it! :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yan Seiner" <yan@cardinalengineering.com>
To: <hylafax-users@hylafax.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: [hylafax-users] DID Summary


> OK, I can resist anything but someone calling me a "charitable soul".
>
> DID is pretty simple.
>
> Ideally, you need ISDN/PRI, a T1, or E1.  The setup messages in these
> contains both the Caller ID and the Called Party ID.
>
> Now you need a piece of hardware that can report those two.
>
> The Eicon Diva Server line of products works wonders.  The latest
> drivers (6.0?) have enhancements for faxing that specifically address
> hylafax.
>
> Now you need to tell the drivers to report both the Caller ID and Called
> Party ID.  For this you need to RTFM to get the correct command.
>
> Then go into the hylafax config, set up CIDName and CIDNumber to
> correspond to the string returned for Caller ID and Called Party ID (OK,
> this is somewhat of a kludge, but it works), read the documentation and
> scripts for faxreceive so you can route faxes based on CIDName and
> CIDNumber.
>
> Done.
>
> Now, if you don't have ISDN/PRI, T1, or E1, it gets really, really
> complicated.
>
> In the US, AFAIK, only a handful of companies support MSN on ISDN/BRI;
> even so, MSN only gives you 10 numbers for the ISDN/BRI circuit.  In
> Europe, MSN is supported, but again, finding hardware, etc. etc. is not
> easy.
>
> I have not even looked at analog DID.  It apparently can be done, if
> your telco/PBX supplies the requisite tones, and you can find a fax
> modem that supports caller ID and called party ID.
>
> My recommendation:
>
> use ISDN/PRI if at all possible.  If you need to "fake" an ISDN/PRI to
> your fax, look at the Adtran Atlas 550; it can take a single ISDN/PRI,
> and split out 3 PRIs, 4 BRIs, and 8 POTS lines, route calls between
> them, and do all sorts of magic.
>
> It ain't cheap.  An 8 channel Eicon Diva Server ISDN/PRI is about
> US$2,600.  An Adtran Atlas configured the way I have it approaches
> US$5K.  (I use it for a bunch of other things.)  And the PRI from the
> telco is big $$$$ - we pay nearly $1,000/month.
>
> --Yan
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