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

Jon Bebeau jbebeau at 1nettw.net
Tue Sep 7 06:24:04 MST 2004


Victor... You Go Boy!!!  I think many of us, me at least, would welcome some
doc on the underpinnings of Zap and friends.
I'll be happy to be a "second set of eyes" to help edit such a document.

Jon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Rini" <victor-rini at comcast.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:12 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Zaptel 'Under the Hood' Project


> 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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