[Freeswitch-users] [Freeswitch-dev] mod_gsmopen, now with USB dongle support (SMSs and Voice calls to/from Cellular Networks)

[Ken Rice]

Hey Giovanni is there a good usb dongle that's widely available on somewhere
like Amazon.com that you can recommend?

K


On 4/20/12 12:35 PM, "Giovanni Maruzzelli" <gmaruzz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/20/12, Wesley Akio <wesleyakio at tuntscorp.com> wrote:
>> Hello Giovanni,
>> 
>> I'm off to buy one of those and will let you know how it goes...
>> 
>> In a side note, how reliable so far?
> 
> Hardware is very reliable and heavy duty.
> Code will become better :)
> 
> 
>> 
>> [ ]s,
>> 
>> Wesley Akio
>> TuntsCorp.com
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli
>> <gmaruzz at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello FreeSWITCHers,
>>> 
>>> the new version of GSMopen is basically usable, and the docs at the
>>> wiki almost up to date (barring the details of the config file, you
>>> don't need them now :) ).
>>> 
>>> Good news is that GSMopen now supports Huawei E1550 and compatible
>>> dongles, that are cheap (roughly $20 on Ebay) and reliable.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to dongle's pcm serial streaming via USB, no more need for
>>> sound hacks, ALSA, or any sound subsystem (and cpu load). All is
>>> digital.
>>> 
>>> It's reasonable to expect to be able to support many dozen concurrent
>>> calls per machine (dongles are USB 2.0 compliant).
>>> 
>>> Works well right now on Linux and Windows, and would probably works on
>>> *BSD and OSX with minor tweaks.
>>> 
>>> Code will be polished, refactured, rewritten, etc. But the thing is there.
>>> 
>>> So, please update your source code to latest git, have a look at the
>>> wiki page, build mod_gsmopen, connect a dongle to your machine, and
>>> begin catching bugs and documentation inaccuracies. And asking for
>>> features for your use cases.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to you all in advance, it's a pleasure and an honor to be part
>>> of this community.
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Gsmopen
>>> 
>>> -giovanni
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sincerely,
>>> 
>>> Giovanni Maruzzelli
>>> Cell : +39-347-2665618
>>> 
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