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It's Here, the User Owned Phone System

Jack Decker (jack-yahoogroups@withheld)
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:12:56 -0500

This is a blog entry that will probably only be of interest to a few
of you, but for what it's worth, here it is:

http://www.toyz.org/mrblog/archives/00000186.html

It's here, the user owned phone system

The rebels are at it again. This time they've built a free,
open-source VoIP platform for embedded devices. It's a VoIP PBX in
box, a cheap affordable box. The box, in fact, is a common Linksys
router. It's called SIPatH (hey nobody said geeks know how to name
products). [Link: http://sipath.sourceforge.net/ ]

So take a standard Linksys router and toss this free code on it, and
you have yourself your own SIP proxy server. No more NAT problem (the
router has a real IP address and and can properly map to all SIP
phones on the NAT LAN). It's open (not locked to a provider). This
allows one to simultaneously use whatever services and PSTN
termination provider one likes, in any mix and match fashion you
like. Use a Brazilian telephony carier from your home in France. There
is no such thing as local anymore.

In a related note, some other bright folks have squeezed (a limited
version of) Asterisk onto the the Linksys WRT-G router: Asterisk on
OpenWRT. [Link:
http://lestblood.imagodirt.net/archives/83-Asterisk-on-OpenWRT.html#extended
]

These hacks may be still too geeky for a lot of people, but watch this
space. It fortells a future. Look out telco copycats. Someone will
make this a plug and play consumer product, and it's probably not far
away. Do you see yet where this is going?

How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/

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