--- Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what their costs are or what makes them successful. Armchair > > businessmen are a dime a dozen; it doesn't help that everytime you > > post to the list, you advocate products which will undercut > Digium's > > source of revenue. > > Isn't this what Linux is about? > > Every asterisk box helps to cause things like the layoffs of > thousands of > our peers that worked for Avaya/Lucent, Nortel, and others from the > commercial PBX manufacturers. Times change, and I don't think the > Winmodem hack will really hurt Digum that bad.
I agree with the above 100%. In fact the best thing that could happen to Asterisk would be for someone to figure out how to make FXS cards priced at $10 per line. I'm thinking all that is really required is full duplex sound card and a ringer. Ringers can be made with a 555 timer IC, a trasister and a voltage source and controlled from a bit on a parallel port. My interrest is radio. I'd like to use Asterisk as a N-way audio switch between a set of ham radios and to act as a "transcoder" between a few of the ham-oriented VOIP systems like IRLP, Echo Lnk, Wires and the like. What got me started was one day I was sailing off the coast of So. Cailornia and had a shirt pocket sized VHF and could talk to another ham who has riding a bus in England. Voice was being routed between fixed land based repeters over the Internet. The system is not easy to use, like say, a cell phone is. I got to thinking Why Not? and then stumbled on Asterisk while using Google to find software that could route audio over IP. Have you guys looked into the origens of the Zaptel hardware? The whole idea was to make the hardware design public so anyone could build and sell it, even a home hobbyist. (Yes you can build ISA cards with simple hand tools. I've got a few one-off cards. PCI is harder though) The goal was to drive down the cost of hardware. ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users