[asterisk-users] building a phone

[Michael Graves]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:14:18 +0100, Christian Stredicke wrote:

>I have influential contacts inside snom...
>
>CS

So you do! What do you think? Would snom be interested in selling
hardware into a group of users who would be loading community developed
application firmware?

It makes me wonder how many little routers Cisco sells that actually
get loaded with WRT-DD and the like?

Michael

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>Michael Graves wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:59:23 -0800, Paul Chambers wrote:
>>   
>>> Michael Graves wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Witness the fact that the old Pingtel phones ran Java, and they were 
>>>> incredibly lame.
>>>>
>>>> I think part of what this thread misses is that DSP is a god chunk of 
>>>> what SIP phones need. A general purpose CPU is not the right tool for 
>>>> the task. A cheap DSP is better suited to compression, transcoding, etc.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, presuming that the snom phones are Linux on a suitable platform 
>>>> soomeone could develop a custom software load for them and OEM the 
>>>> hardware.
>>>>       
>>> I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned Astfin. Basically uClinux and 
>>> asterisk running on an Analog Devices Blackfin DSP. There's also some 
>>> 'open source' hardware that's available - the IP04 and friends. I'm 
>>> using an Edgepbx FX08, and they also have a two-port version (FX02). 
>>> Atcom has a single-port one, the IP01.
>>>
>>> Though if I were going to prototype an 'open' SIP phone, I'd probably 
>>> start with a beagle board (TI OMAP3530 - dual-core ARM+DSP). It's a 
>>> pretty powerful SOC - its brother (3430) powers the Palm Pre.
>>>
>>> Just another datapoint :)
>>>     
>>
>> Yeah, that'd be great hardware to select. 
>>
>> What I was thinking is that this thread seems to be driven by those of
>> a software bent. For that group perhaps there's an opportunity to write
>> code for something like a snom 820. It's a solid solid hardware basis
>> for the project. Snom would be foolish not to sell it for such use,
>> even price it attractively. That way the hardware work would be done,
>> and the software geeks could work their magic.
>>   
>I'm a card-carrying (embedded linux) software geek, and I know I'd be 
>interested :)
>
>Anyone got some influencial contacts inside Snom? or Aastra, for that 
>matter, their hardware also seems good quality from what people have said.
>
>Another possibility is talking to Atcom (or other VoIP ODMs), they seem 
>to have done pretty well from the IP04 and derivatives. They've 
>experienced the benefits of an open development model, perhaps they'd be 
>interested. Not sure what the quality of their existing handset hardware 
>is like.
>
>Anyone on the list have the contacts to get the ball rolling?
>
>Paul
>
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