[Asterisk-Dev] OT possible idea for alternative uses of Digium T1 Hardware

[James Sharp]

The biggest problem I had with the design was finding a form factor 
that worked.  I searched & searched, but couldn't find a tablet-style 
machine with a PCI slot in it.  They all had cardbus or minipci.

opentbird.org, anyone?

On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Steve Underwood wrote:

> Hi Chad,
>
> I think many of us have thought of this. Some of us have even produced 
> fragments of it, when needed. The problem is always finding the time 
> to do a proper job. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
> Chad Wicker wrote:
>
>> Please comment.
>>
>> Over the weekend I was thinking about my job and what I do for a
>> living.  I am in the middle of trying to set up my 4 port T1 card  for
>> use in integrating an Asterisk implementation to switch calls via E&M
>> wink T1 to our EMX2500 switch.  This implementation should be simple 
>> and
>> usefull in dropping a DID down to one timeslot on a T1 (an extension)
>> but I digress.  In the middle of the setup my favorite T1 Testset
>> (Sunrise T10) died on me.  I was distraught and called them up.  Am in
>> the proccess of getting it fixed, but it lead me to some interesting
>> ideas.  A quick search on google didn't bring anything up on any open
>> Source test set types of applications.
>> so...
>>
>> Has anyone though of using zaptel hardware to build a testset
>> application.  Sending patterns could be as easy as getting a sample of
>> the various test patterns and sending them to the T1.  Proccessing the
>> results would be more harry but I doubt that this would be too 
>> taxing. I envision one of those Hand portable computer enclosures 
>> with a
>> ram-disk instead of a harddrive, and making a protable network test 
>> set.
>> Voice channel access could utilize some code from the asterisk 
>> project.
>> A Web based front end would be nice as a network test set, but a
>> application based would probably be a good first attempt.  I think 
>> that
>> this could be used to make one kick butt system and further spur 
>> digium
>> hardware sales, but I am unqualified to do the programming.
>> Desireable features could be easily grabbed from the slick sheets of
>> existing hardware test sets and additional features could be added in
>> similar to asterisk.  One such feature that would be nice would be to 
>> be
>> able to record off the buss the voice being used. This could be
>> interesting as a pass though call recorder, triggered by the signal
>> states.  Such recordings are also usefull in explaining problems to
>> vendors ( a little more accurate a description that there is a funny
>> popping sound when I whistle into the phone).
>>
>> I intend this e-mail to spur conversations as to the possibility of
>> this concept, and hopefully starting off something wonderfull.  It 
>> would
>> enrich digium sales (always a good goal) and also provide 
>> non-buisiness
>> class users access to the testing equipment that usually costs major
>> $$$.  I also think that this would add value to asterisk 
>> implementations
>> in that the same hardware a Asterisk is built out of could be used to
>> test the circuits coming into it.  If someone thinks this e-mail is
>> appropriate for other lists of discussion or the wiki feel free to
>> include it.
>>
>> Chad C. Wicker
>> Systems Engineer
>> Petrocom
>>
>
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