Personal IP Telephony Gateway?

three55ml asks: "I'm interested in putting together a personal SMALL scale IP telephony gateway to the PSTN (telephone network). I have a server with a voice modem in the area code I want to make calls. Are there any solutions for Windows or Linux that let me integrate a simple voice modem and conferencing software to place calls via the Internet? I know about products like LineJack, but I would think using a simple voice modem this could be accomplished on this small of a level."

What a great idea!

[defective]

I have lots of friends back home, and I'm sure one of them could put up a gateway... maybe this is the wave of the future!

H.323

[kruczkowski]

Do a search for H.323 (the protocol that VoIP uses) and you will find a lot of information. From what I have seen most of it for ISDN.

Google search [google.com]

H.323 - ISDN Gateway [telos.de]

Some links...

[no_such_user]

I don't have a difinitive answer, but here are some places to start:

Asterisk Open Source Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and general telephony toolkit [asteriskpbx.com]
linuxtelephony.org [linuxtelephony.org]
Freshmeat search [freshmeat.net]

Good luck, and please report your findings to Slashdot!

Options....

[teambpsi]

Good old home (for me anyway) grown Multitech [multitech.com] has some nice products -- too bad they are way overpriced....though....

I met with them at the Computer Telephony Expo a few months ago, and they were purportedly going to be coming out with a one-line personal gateway device.

Otherwise, I've personally experimented with products from DSG Technology [dsgtechnology.com] -- and while they are not quite personal gateway level, they make some really nice and relatively inexpensive little boxes that allow you to make calls (inter-device) for essentially free

The concept of the "micro-tel" isn't that far off from a reality -- really how different is the concept than that of ham radio ?