[Asterisk-Users] Ha, just found a way around australia approvals......

[Florian Overkamp]

At 23:52 9-5-2003 +0800, you wrote:
>This may be true, but be very careful. In some countries such indirectly 
>connected unapproved equipment is OK. In other places it is not. It can be 
>quite hard, sometimes, to get a straight answer about what is allowed. 
>When I lived in the UK many people said similar things were OK, but they 
>were not (I think they maybe OK now, but not back then). The rules clearly 
>stated that "equipment connect directly or indirectly" to the PSTN needed 
>approval. The back of a switch is definitely an indirect connection.

Thats debatable :) If the intermediate system uses galvanic separation 
(i.e. use a transformer with 1:1 coils to transport the signal) you are 
very likely to be home free. You can easily argue in such a situation there 
is no real connection (directly or indirectly) between the systems, they 
just transfer the signal via electromagnetic fields.

This technique only works for analog systems though :) but there are 
probably are alternatives ?

Florian