[clue-talk] Question about last month's meeting (telephone)

[Nate Duehr]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>On 11-04 14:35, Dave Price wrote:
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>>Asterisk will do that just fine, and is very easy to run.
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>>You would need a card to handle the incoming pots line, then either
>>send calls throught to your pots phone thru a 2nd line card, or better
>>yet  to IP phones on your home network.
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>Glad to hear it. Now for another question. :) Is there any hardware that is
>designed for this sort of thing? Low-power, small profile, good at cooling
>w/o fans, etc...I would imagine the CPU + memory + HD space for something
>like this could be really small, no?
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>Cheers,
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The "without fans" leads toward the mini-ITX boards.  I would assume one 
of those in a small case with room enough for a PCI add-on telephony 
card for the POTS line would work great.

Nate