[geeks] Re: 48v

[James Fogg]

Actually, something I have spent a good deal of time with is voice over IP (a
natural fit for a phone geek who pays for his obsession by network
engineering). If I was going to do a home phone system again it would be an
IP/PBX. An interesting (and working) IP/PBX is the Asterisk PBX, an open source
GNU/Linux project. I have a bunch of routers with voice cards that I could use
as interfaces to the PSTN, but I have no IP phones. I *could* place a bunch of
M$ Windows machines around the house and use netmeeting for phones, but I try
to avoid M$ as much as possible.

If money is no object, my favorite is the Celsius product from Cisco (now part
of the AVVID product line). I went to the schools for that but only worked on 3
of them. Real cool.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> Jerry Pournelle(of Byte fame) doesn't strike me as a major phone geek and
> I seem to remeber that he has a PBX installed at his house, so apperently
> just having a PBX doesn't make you a major phone geek (knowing the 5x5
> thing probably does though).
> 
> Anyway, I'm have a bit of a passing interest in phone systems, but mainly
> only with reguards to PBXs.  I've often wondered how hard it would be to
> make my own (just need a DAC and ADC for each extension, plus some other
> circutry).