[VoIP] More "Authentic" CNET

[Lucky 225]

I think this just overcomplicates things, however if someone wants to do it
all the more power to them.  :)

On Dec 5, 2007 11:07 PM, Keelan Lightfoot <keelan at mail.grenander.com> wrote:

> Something that has bothered me about the current direction that CNET
> is taking is that it is really just a collection of Asterisk servers,
> with some extensions that happen to point at some old switching
> equipment. Or recordings of old equipment. It's hard to tell. It is
> lacking an interactive component, and it isn't really a network in
> the "classical" sense of the term, where the telephone network
> existed as a hierarchy of tandem switches. Placing a call meant
> connecting through multiple switches and trunks to reach your
> destination.
>
> What about the possibility of using a computer's sound card as a 4
> wire trunk? Audio could be passed using a simple streaming audio
> application (something like IHU - ihu.sourceforge.net). Answer
> supervision/dial pulsing could either be passed as out of band "DC"
> signals created or received by extra hardware plugged into the
> server, or as in band SF tones with detection either handled in
> hardware or software. The interface between sound card and switch
> could be executed using something like a Zarlink SLIC or COIC to do 2-
> wire to 4-wire conversion, and handle signaling.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> - Keelan
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