Re: [SLUG] telephony device

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 19:23:28 EST


On 3/29/07, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2007 15:18, Eben King wrote:
>
> > Isn't Asterix for VOIP?
>
> Asterisk can work with VoIP, analog and digital lines. You can use a cheap
> modem to connect to an analog line. They are available often at eBay for $5.
>
> Note not any ol' modem will work. You can find out which chipset works on the
> asterisk wiki, http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk.
>
> I don't recall which works. You could also google for it.
>
> Asterisk will do just about anything you can imagine. The only problem is that
> unless you spend some serious time learning about it you are going to have an
> uphill battle.
>
> There are solutions which works for SOHO, like Trixbox. It's a complete
> prebuilt Asterisk system on a CD. Don't use V1.4x yet. It's very much beta.
>
> --
>
> Steve Szmidt
>
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm not saying anything on hardware, but since there's some talk on
Asterisk, it seems he really doesn't need the dial portion and the
extra bloat. Hence,
http://www.vocpsystem.com/

I've been on the list for quite some time. I couldn't get vgetty to
work back then, but it seemed like a neat system. It looks like
everything you need as far as the software is concerned.

/mario
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