[Asterisk-Users] Re: Zaptel 'Under the Hood' Project

[Vikram Rangnekar]

+++ Victor Rini [06/09/04 18:12 -0700]:
> Hello,
> 
> After poking and prodding at Asterisk and Zaptel for over a couple years 
> now, I've dedicated some time to actually reading the code and trying to 
> figure it out.
> 
> It's been fascinating. With the driver source on one part of the screen 
> and a pdf of "Linux Device Drivers" on another part I've aquainted 
> myself with device driver programming and the interesting hardware on 
> the wildcards. I've always thought Asterisk and Zaptel were two of the 
> coolest FOSS projects around and now that I've
> spelunked through the code a little bit I'm curious:
> 
> Has anyone ever wrote a zaptel "under the hood" type of document, 
> discussing how the pseudo tdm bus works, the zaptel hardware, etc? If 
> so, please point me there.
> 
> If not, I'd like to take a stab at compiling a paper or article about 
> zaptel for a general audience, technically inclined but not hard core 
> technical, i.e. people like me who
> have used asterisk but always wondered how it worked down to the 
> hardware, spans, channels, chunks, samples level. Some help from the 
> community of course would
> be great, perhaps through using a blog or wiki.
> 
> Once the zaptel "dragon" is dispatched, I'd then focus on Asterisk.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Regards,
> Victor
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Sounds extemly intresting maybe you should go right ahead and write a page on
that. 
-- 
regards
Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com)