[VoIP] CNET for Collectors who are not Switchers

Thu Nov 1 13:04:44 CST 2007

At just over a mile apart, I should think that you two fellows would run 
your own open-wire trunk connection along the fence posts, and do away with 
all this new-fangled Axe-Your-Wrist bumph.

APB

749-0100  CN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Jolly" <ian at uax.org.uk>
To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] CNET for Collectors who are not Switchers

| Whilst chuckling at the double negative :-)    (In Welsh - our local
| language they use double negatives all the time as standard practice !)
|
| I couldn't agree more with Shane.  The beauty of CNET is the variety of
| interest in those connected to it.  I have quite a few people on hosted 
off
| my Asterisk who only have an ATA and a single telephone (vintage or
| otherwise). Others have an ATA (or two) which are hooked up to a trunk 
port
| on a 'heritage' first generation electronic switch of some sort. I have a
| New Zealand Telecom 2+6 PABX small enough to sit under a bakelite 
telephone
| with a 'footprint' less than that of two phones sat side by side.( Ideal 
for
| converting the reverse NZ dial pulses in my case)
|
| There are others who have been a great support through their knowledge of
| Asterisk but without an old switch.
|
| It is the 'common bond' of the old telephony that drives us on ( I'm told
| that it is "treatable but not curable"so long as you keep taking the 
tablets
| :-)
|
| Let us not make rules that are too 'tight'  but do everything to encourage
| others. In the UK I've produced a 'CNET' version of the old British Post
| Office's STD Dialling Code book of 1966 with the UK codes in the front 
part
| then the International codes, followed by a Directory of most UK numbers,
| and a selection of overseas numbers. The rear three pages show how to
| download the ZoIPer "softphone" and set it up to a "gateway" that we have
| set up that does not require any setting up other than in the "softphone".
| It is available on the CNET-UK-I group's website as a PDF to download and
| print your own copy off. At a coupe of recent meetings of Telephone
| Collectors I handed out maybe forty or fifty copies resulting in new 
members
| "signing up"  - one is already up and running with an ATA hosted off 
another
| Asterisk and is working on getting his own up and running soon. Others are
| on the way.
|
| I've also discovered that these old telephones I've been hoarding for 
years
| can actually be used to speak to others with an interest in telecoms!
| And thanks to Asterisk we now are not only able to preserve old switches 
(of
| most varieties) but can recreate the network that linked them.
|
| Long may we be making and receiving calls
|
| Ian Jolly
|
| p.s.  Are Peter Duffield and I the closest two Asterisk Tandems at just 
one
| mile apart as the crow flies ?
|
| +44 (0)  352      82 26 (via a 1929 GPO Rural Automatic eXchange!) from
| CNET - the Heritage Telephone Network
| +44 (0)1352 83 82 26 (via a 1929 GPO Rural Automatic eXchange!) from 
Public
| Telephone Network
| FWD Telephone No  83 2230
|
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Shane Young" <voiptandem at shaneyoung.com>
| To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
| Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:43 PM
| Subject: [VoIP] CNET for Collectors who are not Switchers
|
|
| >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
| >
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