RE: Asterisk on Linksys WRT54GS
Bar far the easiest method is to replace the router firmware with
OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org). Asterisk is made available as an
optional OpenWRT package. The original work was done by Brian Capouch.
We will have one at the show (mine) and Nabeel has offered a WiFi phone
to use the AP.
I'm not sure if pushing OpenWRT is the right thing to do though. This
quickly deteriorates into geek speek "what funky platforms can we put
Linux on" discussion as opposed to what business function we can enable.
I think if the WRT portion stays in the brochure, rather than point to
product URL's we should articulate its usefulness as a remote PBX
endpoint over IP that is fully integrated for the remote & teleworker
crowd. Strictly business - a $100 access point that provides this
function sure beats the proprietary solutions from Nortel/Avaya.
Position it as an "office in a box". Router, WiFi, SPI Firewall, PBX
endpoint, Captive portal to police the kids access, Samba + minimal web
server to publish docs to collegues/customers, ... expand as you like
..., etc.
For what it's worth, OpenWRT has become much more portable now and is
available on "most" higer-end WiFi routers to varying degrees of
functionality. The newest Asus and Netgear units have USB 2.0 ports
which can address a memory key and provide some significant non-volatile
storage.
dbc.
Ian Service wrote:
Closest thing to a URL I could find:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linksys+WRT54G
Maybe Simon could put this on his box:
<?
header("Location:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linksys+WRT54G";);
?>
in like; /taug/wrt/index.php ?
- Ian
On 3/29/06, *Ian Darwin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> - Submit Flyer to Stephan (Simon; Fri)
>
I've done a first draft of the flyer like I said; it's at
http://www.darwinsys.com/tmp/fanfold.pdf
Check you get the complete download: -rw-r--r-- 1 ian wheel 872223
Mar 29 22:55 fanfold.pdf
I obviously started with the text from the wiki, for which thanks.
If people think it's dreadful anybody else is welcome to do a better
one, but if you have suggestions to improve it
please let me know. What's there is far from finished but the overall
shape will probably not change much.
(though the columns will be adjusted as they aren't balanced).
When we send it to Stephan I will increase the PDF resolution to
get a
better print; this is PDF'd in
moderate quality. I have some more text written and a map still to go
in. The hard part is knowing
what to leave out.
Ian
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