Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew Joakimsen
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: we have a low-cost Atom based PBX and a fax relay setup locally with hylafax/iaxmodem to solve that issue, and it is working very well.  We don't however, have a solution for their alarm lines. You would desire the entire

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Lee Howard wrote: I can't pretend to know what an alarm system needs out of a modem, but as far as iaxmodem acquiring data-modem capabilities that part is already developing. IAXmodem inherits its DSP capabilities from spandsp, and you can see on the spandsp that

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 12/06/2010 11:21 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Ah, but it is not for me personally, it is for the ~20,000 residents of the US Virgin Islands that currently pay $40/month for a POTS line just for their alarm monitoring. As far as the reliability of POTS lines - in our area, that is exactly

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread Tammy A Wisdom
Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: Hi, I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am wondering if there have been any new

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread jon pounder
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursierej...@sunfone.com wrote: Hi, I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am wondering if there have been any new developments. Our dialtone

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread John Novack
List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursierej...@sunfone.com wrote: Hi, I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am wondering

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread Lee Howard
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I don't think I have a prayer of hacking iaxmodem to do what is needed to emulate a modem though :) I can't pretend to know what an alarm system needs out of a modem, but as far as iaxmodem acquiring data-modem capabilities that part is already developing. IAXmodem

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-03 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: On 12/02/2010 10:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I would love to see a DSP modem that could answer an asterisk channel, send the data stream over TCP to some remote asterisk, which could then relay the stream by making an outbound DSP modem call

[asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-02 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am wondering if there have been any new developments. Our dialtone service, like I am sure is true for most ITSPs, touts the ability to drop your POTs lines for significant savings. For businesses we have a low-cost Atom

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-02 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 12/02/2010 10:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: But it seems to me that there should be a solution much like our fax relay, where we literally accept the fax call over the local LAN, produce a PDF file, transfer it to the central switch which then dials it back out over a T1. In that case