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..., are there PoE phones that work with *? Most I look at seem to be powered from AC wall blocks. We'd like to centralize the switching and power and provide a UPS so the phone system works when the power goes out. [Apologies, I'm new to this whole concept of IP phones and *.] -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...the internet backbone. Calls come in and get VoIP'ed and sent to me as packets, perhaps IAX, perhaps something else? First question: Does such a thing exist? Where? Second question: Does it work? How well? Third question: Would you want it? Why? Fourth question: How much $$$? -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...t, how much time did it take you to get the system running smoothly? PS: In case it matters, we're extremely Linux capable (we use it for our file serving, networking, and we built our own custom ERP on perl and mySQL, we also do embedded Linux in custom military robot controllers). -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...ng else is. 3. Feedback on what others are doing with 10-12 lines in the US that may want to expand to ~20 lines. 4. Interfacing so many POTS lines to Asterisk. I guess that means an FXO channel bank to T1 card? Kind of stupid to go digital/analog/digital in the last 100 feet. Help? -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...s to buy/avoid? Places to buy used/surplus/cheap ones? 4. Will the above plan actually achieve the "56K" modem connection when routed through the asterisk box? That is, will there be issues of latency/bandwidth in handling the 64 kbps streams? Thanks for everyone's help. -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...ctly? A kind of virtual modem module? That might make it much better as it avoids one more digital to analog to digital conversion. It would essentially be the code found is so called "soft modems" but taking it's input from packets rather than sampling a phone line. -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...nterst in not interfering with 802.11b or 802.11g. However, the FHSS should be better than the 5.8DSS (which uses 2.4GHz to go back to the base). So please respond if you have used either of these two phones. Give me any information you may have on them. -- Tim DeBaillie 812-476-2721 x102 Ciholas Technologies 812-476-2881 255 South Garvin St. debaillie@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47713 www.ciholas.com

...if anyone could tell me about the ring tones. Specifically: 1) How many ring tones do they come with? 2) Can you upload your own ring tones? 3) If so, what format and how? (wav, mp3, gsm, etc. and TFTP, web management, flash, etc.) Thanks for any help. -- Tim DeBaillie 812-476-2721 x102 Ciholas Technologies 812-476-2881 255 South Garvin St. debaillie@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47713 www.ciholas.com

Hello, I ftp'ed the binary RPM for samba from us6.samba.org, and when I tried to verify it, rpm said that MD5 was NOT OK. Has anyone else reported this behavior? Thanks, Hiten Sonpal sonpal@ciholas.com Engineer, CIHOLAS Enterprises Voice: 812 476 2721 x 102 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit #D Fax: 812 476 2881 Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com

...k any on site work will be needed and we can handle stuff like "check out the latest CVS and compile it". If you are in this line of work and really know your way around * and the equipment listed above, please send me a note with your areas of expertise, experience, and rates. -- Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D mikec@ciholas.com Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com