On Topic: Cheapest Asterisk USB Key? (was: Re: [asterisk-users] Off Topic: Open Source USB Softphone)

[Salvatore Giudice]

Try installing Monte Vista http://www.mvista.com/ on the usb stick. It will
be a lot cleaner than taking a standard server distribution of linux and
stripping out all the unwanted kernel modules.

Monte Vista is an embedded linux that should be able to boot your server off
a 128mb usb stick with Asterisk installed. You should probably strip
asterisk down to the bare essentials for your project as well.

You should be aware that flash memory is generally not the best medium to
store data when you have a high number of read/writes. Flash memory will
fail much more quickly under these conditions. You might want to consider
using a usb microdrive instead of a flash stick. Pick a microdrive that
generates as little heat as possible.

BTW, what exactly is the motivation for running linux off of a usb stick? If
you would like cdr's, you could likely do so with ngrep and a perl script.

Good luck, SG

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-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew
Rubenstein
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:08 AM
To: Asterisk-Users
Subject: On Topic: Cheapest Asterisk USB Key? (was: Re: [asterisk-users] Off
Topic: Open Source USB Softphone)

	Here's a flipside of this subject: what is the absolute cheapest
Linux
device that can be connected to a PC's USB port? That has just enough
power for a minimal Asterisk server running on it. The Asterisk just
maintains a CDR database on its Flash memory, which it periodically
submits over the PC's network connection with an HTTP hit on a remote
full-service Asterisk server? No call handling, DSP or anything really
number crunching, no telephony terminal or other services. The
lowest-performance device that plugs into the USB, with its own Linux
instance. In OEM quantity, under $50? Under $100?


On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 02:51 -0700,
asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:02:06 -0500
> From: "Mike Lynchfield" <theclubvoip at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Off Topic: Open Source USB Softphone
> To: michael at vandonselaar.org,   "Asterisk Users Mailing List -
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> Discussion"      <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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> 
> sip would be the required one as iax..well..
> 
> also openwengo wont work.. to much overhead .. broswrer needed.. ie
> component + flash + css+js etc.. not viable..
> 
> so im also asking anyone have one ? since ihave a supply of around
> 2000 of
> the vonage usb stick OEM..
> 
> On 3/30/07, Michael Van Donselaar <michael-list at vandonselaar.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Which USB Phone?  I have written custom versions of iaxcomm for
> various
> > people,
> > and have a version that works with the Yealink phone.
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:33:07 -0300, "Luis Claudio Santos" <
> > listas.lcs at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I need a softphone - for usb phone devices - that I can alter
> (insert
> > logo,
> > >menu, etc).
> > >
> > >Does somebody know such one?
> > >
> > >[]s
> >
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