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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Asterisk + WiFi + Linux= Phonode DIY Telco - Cheapest Internet Phone and First Mile Solution
At the VON Conference Spring 2006 Brian Capouch presented quiet possibly the world’s cheapest Internet phone and last mile solution.
Prof. Brian Capouch is an assistant professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at
Thanks to the work by the people at OpenWRT Prof. Capouch hacked a Netgear WGT634U WiFi system and installed Asterisk on a Flash card. This system can be used in variety of applications:
Router / Firewall
Access Point
Wireless Client Mode
Point to Point Backhaul Link (Cheap Last mile solution)
Another interesting application was remote video surveillance with a cheap web cam and Linux motion detection capability. The asterisk system would call once an intruder was detected and can feed both steaming video and audio.
Netgear WGT634U system details:
Atheros miniPC
CPU: 200 mHz
32 MB RAM
8 MB Flash
1 Port 2.0 USB port
12VDC
For additional specs: