Re:salvage the hardware? (Score 1)

> And where pray tell will your calls go without a PSTN gateway
> your Ass-terisk server can register to after Vonage is Gone-age?

One only needs a PSTN gatway if one
wants to call to or from a PSTN.

The hardware
(this _is_ a hardware topic ...)
might still be useful for Internet to Internet communication,
if the box can be reprogrammed.

> How will you receive calls from the PSTN without a LEC
> (or CLEC partner) to take calls to your DID and flip it to SIP or H.323
> to relay to you?
> There's a LOT more infrastructure involved than a simple ATA device.

Sounds like the early days of Linux : "Nobody wants your hobby
kernel 'cause there is no applications to run on it and there
never will be"

There are *-MILLIONS-* of these little RPT300 boxes out there.
If/when Vonage goes tits-up, they will be flooding the Goodwoll
thrift shops. Without software, they will all mostly end up in
the landfill. With software, they might find a good use.

The question is "What CAN we do with a simple ATA".

-W-