[VoIP] CNET for Collectors who are not Switchers

Thu Nov 1 18:39:48 CST 2007

Ddyhea buchedda 'n hen phones!

----- 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 1, 2007 1:40:34 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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