[Commotion-dev] Uplinks

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Stephane <stephane at shimaore.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Not sure where this would fit in the roadmap so I didn't attempt to update
> anything on the website.
>
> Couple thoughts:
>
>
> - There's mention of GSM and LPFM on the frontpage as backbone / links to
> the rest of the Internet. Since I've been working over the past few days on
> modem access (including "modem callback") it would be interesting to
> envision (landline) modem access as a third [...] option.
>
> Refs on this topic (I haven't been involved directly with these folks, I'm
> working this as an FDN project):
>
> http://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/Dialup_For_Egypt
> http://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/SIP_Software_Modem
>
> The post that started our thinking on that topic:
>
>
> http://blog.fdn.fr/post/2011/01/28/Censure-de-l-internet-en-%C3%89gypte-%3A-une-humble-action-de-FDN
>
>
> - I think I had mentioned villagetelco[1] to Dan & Peter. The folks at
> villagetelco have produced a nice piece of _open_ hardware[2] with WAN, LAN,
> FXS port, low power, rugged...
>
> Note: To connect to a residential line for modem access an FXO port would
> be needed instead of an FXS port. But the changes for that shouldn't be
> extremely extensive.
>
> [1] http://www.villagetelco.org/
> [2] http://www.villagetelco.org/products/
>

funny you mentioned it because we were discussing fxo the other day on the
VT list and steve found

http://shop.voipdistri.com/product_info.php?info=p41_Edge-corE-007-Pocket-VoIP--SIP-.html

im sure theres other hardware out there also


>
> - An uplink doesn't have to be IP -- UUCP or BBS-type connections might be
> better suited to "most of the time offline" uplinks. (I don't have much
> insight here, though.)
>
>
> That's it for now.
> Stéphane
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