I have a Panasonic KX-TA824 PBX in my home... with 8 extensions hanging off
3 CO lines. This is certainly one of those "it just works" solutions for
small businesses and larger homes. I see them all over the place. I bought
it before VoIP/Asterisk really matured but given the investment I wasn't
going to rip it all out (after all, "it just works" rather nicely). But I
have those 3 CO lines connecting into a couple of Linksys/Sipura ATA's that
connect to Astlinux on an Alix box that route all my inbound and outbound
calls over VoIP/Cable Modem. I kicked AT&T land lines out about a year ago
and have no regrets. Asterisk does the routing, voicemail, IVR menus,
privacy manager, all sorts of good stuff that AT&T would charge an arm and a
leg for. And the two systems work very well together.
I like to think I have the best of both worlds! But then I am a techie and
can fix things when they go wrong.
David
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John Novack
<[email protected]>wrote:
> As an old time telecom professional, I would go even further and say I
> would not base a business model on Asterisk at all, especially those built
> on a PC platform
> There are too many really good telephone systems available for most
> applications that will hang on the wall and just work for the next 10-20
> years. This is especially so for small business and SOHO applications where
> the business owner wants something that just works and isn't interested in
> tinkering.
> I know many will disagree, and that is fine.
> Just my opinion, from my personal experience in telecom sales and service
> for some 35 years
>
> John Novack
>
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Re-purposed thin clients are all well and good but one cannot really
> base a business model on "I got it from ebay". Sure for a one off home
> project a $50 thin client is great. I know. My web pages and this list
> are full of my re-purposing ravings.
>
> Once upon a time Kris did a build for a GumStix device (which I have and
> love!) and indeed there were sources and howto's for it on his site but
> are now sadly gone.
>
> AstLinux was once available for an ARM processor by means of cross
> compiling. Perhaps we could do it again?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 09/22/2009 01:31 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:59 AM, John Novack wrote:
>
>
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>
> Anyone tried using a BeagleBoard from digikey?
> http://www.beagleboard.org
>
> For $150 it's worth a punt!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Isn't that kind of expensive??
> Given the HP thin clients going for a song on eBay. Update them with a
> Transcend larger flash and they run AstLinux well.
> Some even have a PCI slot, though the expansion parts are rare, and
> some have expandable ( beyond 128M ) memory, all have an Ethernet
> port, 4 USB ports, a Serial and VGA, and many have a PS/2 keyboard
> port as well.
>
> Will AstLinux work with an ARM processor??
>
> John Novack
>
>
> The BeagleBoard looks pretty interesting, but as John said, is spendy
> compared to what you can get elsewhere. Also there is the added
> complication of an ARM-based CPU.
>
> Over time, I'm sure more linux distributions will have ARM builds are
> first class citizens, especially as the ARM-based netbooks start
> penetrating the market.
>
> John: which models of the HP thin clients have you had success with?
>
> -Pete
>
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