[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Embedded?

[Daniel Pocock]

Kenneth Shaw wrote:

>On a wireless device, yes, bad idea.
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>A regular style home phone, that doesn't need a full PBX, would need
>answering machine type features.
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>Also, if you want to take the phone company out of the equation or
>third-parties out of the equation, you need this capability.
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>-Ken Shaw...
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Obviously, you have never lived here in Britain.  Here, a regular phone 
line can be down for up to a week.  The day I started running a VoIP 
service, a mysterious fault took out my own home phone line and DSL for 
more than 24 hours, and BT never gave me an explanation.

Even British Telecom's nuke-proof underground exchange in Manchester 
suffered a major week long outage this year, even emergency services 
were denied communications, check out this article for some reasons why 
a VoIP revolution is needed here and preferably soon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/2004/03/31/if_the_phones_failed.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/have_your_say/2004/03/31/phones_day3.shtml

Companies who had established multiple peering arrangements and IP based 
routing of their phone calls (using products like Asterisk running in 
data centers) were able to withstand this catastrophe.