[VoiceOps] CPE IAD recommendations

[Jonathan Thurman]

> the patton smartnode series are my favorites.  fantastic debugging via
> cli, on par with and often surpassing ios (i was able to get my first
> few units fully working basically a few hours after unpack thanks to
> the debug).  cli itself has a few oddities but i find it pleasant to
> use overall.  support team is small but very helpful and responsive.

Looks like an interesting product line, but I didn't see any mix of
digital and analog.  What I really need is one PRI, and a couple of
FXS ports, and at least one FXO port.

> adtran i think unabashedly strives to make their cli as much like ios
> as possible.  if you're comfortable with cisco gear, then you should
> have no trouble configuring adtran.  there is a web gui also that
> compares very favorably to the competition's (helpful when you have
> low-skill support staff logging into on the devices).

The 908e looks promising.  I really like that you can play with the
GUI / CLI BEFORE you buy one.  Just have to register on the Adtran
website and go to http://www.adtran.com/vlab  I wish more vendors had
that.

Does anyone know if you can connect one of the T1 ports on a 908e to a
PSTN PRI?  The documentation is not clear and mainly talks about
customer facing PBX connections and data termination.  I have a call
into pre-sales, but nothing back yet...

> the cli on the audiocodes gear is kind of amazing, it seems like a
> throwaway project from someone's college operating systems course.

LOL, Ummm... Actually I don't remember any of my classmates having
THAT bad of an interface when I was taking Operating Systems...

-Jonathan