FW: [Malvern] Meeting and Anothre Brain Fizz

[Ian Pascoe]

Chris

Was looking more at a single line system.

The idea had come from seeing software that would turn your PC into an
answering machine and allow remote access.  Although aware of the cards you
mention for costs sake I thought that a fudge on this type of software might
work ....

I can see that this little project will take meplaces where I have never
been before so a bit of hard slog ahead.

Geoff - sorry can't do tonight as have to beet the larks tomorrow morning to
get to Milton Keynes for a 2 day conference - yawn.

Ian





-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Eilbeck [mailto:chris at hyperspace.org.uk]
Sent: 20 April 2005 18:52
To: Ian Pascoe
Subject: Re: [Malvern] Meeting and Anothre Brain Fizz


On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:30:28PM +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>
> Any further ideas or knowledge sharing would be welcome.

http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux_server.html

I've done similar things to this in the past, in the early days of voice
processing using cards from Rhetorex and recently using Dialogic
hardware.  The software is relatively straightforward but the hardware
telephony interfaces are very niche market products and very expensive to
boot.  A Dialogic card is £2.5K and you need an interface to bring that
out to something you can plug into a telephone network.

How big do you expect this system to be?  I know where there are a few
Rhetorex cards I could push in your direction but I'm not sure what
software support is still available for these cards.  I was running 8
line systems back in 1991 with these under DOS software developed using
Borland Turbo C++ so they're quite capable.

Chris
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