[Asterisk-Users] Vonage

[denon]

At 01:50 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Tilghman" == Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> 
> writes:
>
>Tilghman> Wouldn't an Ethernet interface necessitate a UDP/IP stack?
>Tilghman> And DHCP?  And routing tables?
>
>ip stacks are not all that complicated.  they even exist for 8bit µps.
>
>all the code it available to grab and will fit in a reasonable flash.
>
>cf http://www.elphel.com/model313/ for a running on a xilinx fpga for
>hardware-speed video compression and a ETRAX100LX 32-bit cpu running
>linux for control and networking.
>
>take one of those cpus, a bit of ram and flash, suitable fxo chip(s)
>(whether fpga or dsp) and you have enough to do what cisco's ata-186
>does.  to be like an ata-188 just add a single-chip 5-way ethernet
>switch:  one port connects to the cpu's ethernet port, the other
>four are available for external connections.  if you don't have enough
>space for four rj45 ports just leave one or two of the swich chip's
>ports unconnected.
>
>it should be doable for significantly less than cisco charges.
>
>i agree that this would be a great product for digium, especially as
>they can have it support iax and in effect be a mini * server.


Yep, definitely.   Of course, then if it could mount remote nfs or smb 
shares, it could even be a voicemail server... <G>

(course you'd need a lot more ram, cpu, etc I spose .. but who's counting. :)

denon
>-jimc
>
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