[VoIP] The Museum of Communications, Seattle

[David Josephson]

Chad Perkins wrote:
> 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.
>>     
They also have an early ESS, a #1XB and step and relay equipment.
>> 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.
>>     
They do have more than a few channel banks at the museum.
>> /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.
>   
I have been talking with another friend who lives in Seattle and is a 
regular volunteer with the Seattle museum, Dave Dintenfass. He's talked 
to Don about it, ordered Asterisk books and should be part of the 
project too. Sounds like there is a lot of support in various directions 
for this project. The Asterisk box could also help them tie their 
various switches together.

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David Josephson