[asterisk-users] Netgear WGT Flash-fest at Astricon

[Brian Capouch]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> 
>     Do you have the necessary components for a serial cable for these 
> little guys?  I would like to play with the loader and get a serial 
> console...
> 
>     If you don't have one perhaps we can work on getting the parts 
> before then.
> 

I have one, and also will be bringing the necessary components to build 
another one--although I would prefer not to do so just right now--so 
that anyone interested can see how the "commercial" one is constructed 
on the inside.

I have a beginning programming student who was charged today to 
breadboard up a few more of these, and, if he gets good at it, to make 
up a few of them.

We're using these things like crazy now in quite a variety of use cases; 
I recently added, at a customer's request, policy routing and traffic 
shaping capabilities.  They have proven to be quite reliable also acting 
as client WISP CPE.  A $90 pair of them provides client CPE, a local 
premises AP, and a small-volume Asterisk server.

I built 1.2.13 for it tonight.  Kenny from Digium, a former student of 
mine, has implemented a proof of concept "remote training" server on 
one, where we use "screen" to provide the student with a way to watch an 
expert administrator fiddle with a system's configuration.

They're great fun, and a harbinger of a future direction in "bottom 
feeder" telephony, which is the space I inhabit :-)

B.

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