[asterisk-users] RE: On Topic: Cheapest Asterisk USB Key?

Sun Apr 1 10:47:12 MST 2007

	I need a USB microprocessor *device* on which the Linux and Asterisk
will run (even if very slowly), not just a storage drive from which to
run it on the PC. MonteVista is a good distro, though there are other
"minimal" embedded distros, of which I've already got one selected. The
CDR usage of a single user's PC is just fine in performance and total
lifetime read/writes (usually upwards of 100K) for the CDR data that
needs to persist, as opposed to the device's RAM for executing the
Asterisk. I'm looking for a device under $100 or $50 in OEM quantity,
which is where just microdrives start. I want to run Asterisk itself,
even if stripped down, for easy sync and single platform maintenance
across all the Asterisk instances I've got, as well as guaranteed
compatibility between data/network formats/protocols.


On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 13:08 -0400, Salvatore Giudice wrote:
> 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 conside
> 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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