>
>With MSN it works because they have a tie-up with net2phone.com . The
>gateways probably all run Linux since Linux has fantastic facilities to do
>such things. However they do'nt accept connections (and I've also not
>found any clients to do do this) from Linux. Sound's crazy.
>
>> In fact I am looking for such gateways, if you have come across, please
send
>> me links.
>
>I've searched for 2 days at google, altavista, sourceforge, openh323,
>linuxtelephony, freshmeat etc and not found any open, free, Linux
>compatible gateways or Linux clients to connect to them. The internet to
I have already done lots of work on voice modem under linux and can develop
a client. What I am looking for is a gateway.
>phone gateway should be offering services in the area where you want to
>call, quite similiar to a internet to fax gateway (of which there is a
>volunteer group around the world). The pages all say that this is a new
>technology and the companies are jumping in for profits.
>
>> Secondly this kind of service can not remain free because, the gateways
have
>> to dial out a telephone number.
>
>true, but volunteers have made fax possible. Also at some places phone
>calls are cheap (that's why USA is covered better than India).
>
>> No special hardware is required if the connection is between pc ->
>> telephone, but you will require a modem if telephone->telephone
connection
>> is required.
>
>True, but at the gateway side an IPTelephony card is preferred for better
>sound quality as this takes the burden off the CPU.
Agreed but these card are expensive and modem can provide a similar
facility.
In fact dialogic cards can play a message at 8000 samples only, where as a
modem can play at 11500 samples.
>
>Since I couldn't locate any proper providers, I'm planning to start up my
>own h.323 gateway to offer free services at the Dallas, Texas area in the
>US after a couple of months (especially for people living in India). You
>may be required to install xspeakfree on the client machine.
that's great. Please let me know the details. I can provide client side
support up to telephone. So that telephone to telephone service can be
provided.
>
>Thanks,
>Indraneel
>
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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