On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com> wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, gm5729 wrote:

I put together my own voip tis past weekend. After looking at like 4-5 FOSS websites. I was honestly more confused then when I started looking around. Everything to me looked like stuff for call centers. I just want a simple phone.

On my list, the Grandstream BT-201 and the -102 are each a conventional looking black telephone with some feature butons and lights, look like a 'desk keyset' in an office, but with the property that instead of running back to a local phone controller usually over CAT-3 cabling, these units are assigned an IP, and connected through a RJ-45 ethernet connection, and routed like any other computer device. Call control signals, voice data, and other signals (think: hold buttons, and message waiting lights) are manageable through SIP to a central Freeswitch or Asterisk 'PBX' which need not be on site

The rest of the units I mentioned are ATA -- analog telephone adapters, exporting FXS and FXO -- subscriber, and central office type lines, respectively -- which a plain old 'dumb' POTS phone's RJ-11 may be plugged

-- Russ herrold
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