[VoIP] Hello from Slovenia!

[Russ Price]

windmill wrote:
> One assumes that collectors, preservationists and hobbyists will 
> continue to exist and maintain heritage equipment long into the future 
> and with the almost exponential rate of change of technology I can't 
> help wondering if CNET as a group has considered the near future if and 
> when Asterisk drops support for older technology. Presumably we would 
> continue to run suitable versions of Asterisk but has the group 
> considered the potential issue at all?

I doubt that Asterisk would ever drop support for analog FXO and FXS 
ports - especially since Digium sells cards with such ports.

However, you aren't going to get patches into the official Asterisk 
source tree unless you sign a release to Digium to allow them to 
incorporate the patches into their commercial Asterisk Business Edition.

CallWeaver, formerly OpenPBX <http://www.callweaver.org/> is a fork of 
Asterisk, purely GPL, and it is already diverging significantly from 
Asterisk (for instance, using SQLite instead of an ancient version of 
BerkeleyDB, and also providing T.38 fax support).  A detailed FAQ is 
available at <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CallWeaver>.

It might be worthwhile to investigate it - however, it would still rely 
on Zaptel for the FXS, FXO, and TDM interfaces.

	Russ
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