It's already been done. The X101P is a $10 winmodem, tested by me as of last night.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem? > > pamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > > > I agree with the above 100%. In fact the best thing that could > > happen to Asterisk would be for someone to figure out how to make FXS > > cards priced at $10 per line. I'm thinking all that is really > > required is full duplex sound card and a ringer. Ringers can be made > > with a 555 timer IC, a trasister and a voltage source and controlled > > from a bit on a parallel port. > > Go for it. Get FCC ClassB approval and Part68 (I think that's the #) > approval and sell it for $10 a line. I am not going to dink around with > that though -- I want a nice PCI card that has the various agency > approvals > and doesn't tie up a sound card, a printer port and cabling inbetween so > when the cat rubs up against the computer it goes flaky. > > I'm an electronics hobbyiest... hell I design and support industrial power > electronics for a living. I know what things cost and why they're priced > at 5x the BOM cost. Customers cost a lot of money to keep happy and > nobody > wants to pay for support. > > > Have you guys looked into the origens of the Zaptel hardware? > > The whole idea was to make the hardware design public so anyone > > could build and sell it, even a home hobbyist. (Yes you can > > build ISA cards with simple hand tools. I've got a few > > one-off cards. PCI is harder though) The goal was to drive > > down the cost of hardware. > > The T100P is a pretty trivial design. All the hard work's being done in > the > DalSemi T1/E1/J1 framer IC and interfaced through the Tiger320's parallel > interface. I am pretty sure all the PLD is doing is some logic routing to > make things smaller and cheaper than going discrete. > > In general, audio-grade circuits and basic computer interfacing is > trivial. > However experience has taught me that the difference between theory and > practise is that there isn't much difference between them, in theory. Yes > these things are pretty cheap but there's a lot of NRE costs they're > trying > to recover in the price, not to mention supporting the building and people > in it. > > Regards, > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
