[VoIP] The Museum of Communications, Seattle

[Chad Perkins]

On 3 Apr 2007 at 11:30, John R. Covert wrote:

> I just got off the phone with Don Ostrand, Curator of the Seattle
> museum, one of the great museums of switching equipment, with an
> actual working panel office and a large 5XB.
> 
> The purpose of my call was to arrange a special evening visit during
> the Asterisk Boot Camp I expect to teach in Seattle 11-15 June.
> 
> But I also talked to him about getting the museum connected to
> CNET.  He sounded interested, and I sent him to the ckts website
> to have a look-see.  There is already a DSL connection into the
> museum building, so it's just a matter of getting them set up
> with an Asterisk box and some sort of channel bank.  Their switches
> only operate during museum hours on Tuesdays, but they'd still be a
> wonderful addition to the network.
> /john

I have been recently contacted off list about this.  When I was out last time we joked 
about how neat it would be to connect our crossbar machines.  After a couple 
months of research what I found was the same thing we are now doing here: E&M 
and DP channel banks gatewayed via Asterisk and the Internet.

c.