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Date: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Internet to Telephone
>Sorry I was not clear. Linuxtelephony aims to support the telephony card
>(mainly by quicknet) which is required for setting up a internet to phone
>gateway. The card is not required if you want to place a call to a normal
>phone from your PC over the internet. Actually the card is not required
>for the gateway also, but it makes compression etc in hardware and
>improves performance (besides the fact that the GSM compression is
The card quicknet or dialogic does nothing except digitizing the voice
signal and provides telephone line interface.
>patented so it'd better be buried in hardware rather than in open source).
>So what happens to the Linux user who wants to make a long distance call
>over the internet? (someone suggested me to buy a PC and install windows)
Perl module for GSM compression are available at cpan under GPL.
I don't think GSM compression is patented.
>
>Thanks,
>Indraneel
>
>On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Mukund wrote:
>
>> Its not even gateway also.
>> it is the site which gives information on development of Linux Telephony.
>> Regards,
>> Mukund Deshmukh
>>
>> >That's for the gateway, not the client
>> >thanks,
>> >Indraneel
>> >
>> >On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Madhavi G wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am not quite sure.. but linuxtelephony.com shud be of some help..
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Madhavi.
>
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