[VoIP] Hello from Slovenia!

[windmill]

But surely these days it it only residential customers and very small 
businesses that are using analogue phones and the market for Asterisk 
must be seen as business customers by Digium. I don't know what the 
situation in the US is but from what I have seen in the UK businesses 
are quickly being pushed towards digital PBXs by BT and VOIP has a very 
firm foothold here now. My thinking is that once there is no call for 
analogue in the business market then support for FXO and FXS will 
quickly die. Obviously Zaptel will be adapted for newer technology and 
surely support for analogue will be deprecated. My expectation is that 
analogue in all its forms will have disappeared from the Uk within 10 
years for so many reasons including new technology, COSHH regulations 
and cost effectiveness amongst others.

I certainly wasn't thinking about getting patches into the official 
Asterisk release either as it is not in Digium's interest. I suppose we 
are safe with Asterisk as long as there are countries in the world where 
analogue remains in demand but I have no idea about statistics in that 
area. My thinking is that there can't be too many countries in the world 
that are not moving headlong into new technology, after all in many 
third world countries landline telephony has been all but bypassed by 
mobile telephony.


Brian

Russ Price wrote:
>
> 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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