[VoIP] CNET for Collectors who are not Switchers

[Shane Young]

I thought I'd start a new thread, but quote something from Dennis:

Quoting Dennis D Hock <hockd at dteenergy.com>:

> I also don't think that what a person chooses to hang off their Asterisk
> box should be a problem.  Certainly the "C" stands for Collectors but what
> one collects is and can be different for all of us.

I think Dennis meant to say "shouldn't be a problem..."

There are several reasons why somone might collect phones but not switches.

Space needed for a switch
Cash to buy a switch
Power needed for a switch
Might not particularly interested in that aspect of telephony
etc.

These collectors could be using Asterisk to simply provide  
connectivity for their phone displays.

I've been to Richard Rose's home (he's only about a half-hour away,  
even without the 35W bridge).  He has a great display of phones, but  
none of them are connected to anything.

Currently, my rather small display at home is connected just to  
Asterisk via an old channel bank.  When I get my Itec EMS2 up, they'll  
be connected to that, but for now you can call the phones and make  
calls from them to both the PSTN and CNET.

I have a T1 card in my asterisk box that feeds this and other channel  
banks, but there are other ways to connect as well.  There are a bunch  
of FXS gateway / analog telephone adapter devices out there.  We've  
talked about the Cisco 3810 here several times which would make a good  
FXS gateway for a display.

I think as collectors, we should encourage everyone who collects to  
participate in any way they can.



--Shane
+1-821-7311 CNET

----------------------------------------------------------------