Re: [asterisk-biz] MagicJack

I am under the understand that this is a skype product, it might not be sold by skype but it is on there back bone, so I would suggest that is you are use to using a voip phone on skype then this will be no different except they have this adapter so the average person can use there existing home phone and plug in to the network or the voip network, so one trying to make a lot of money, wish i came up with the little box, but the jury is not in yet, when the wrong people get duke out of there money, then the courts will have the final say as to what the technology really is, and I am not boshing you.

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] MagicJack
From: <nigel.dennis@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, March 21, 2008 11:05 pm
To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com

Be very careful if you intend to purchase one of these dongles. I purchased
1, got notification that I have purchased 2 that will be ready for shipping
soon but a discount can be given if I make it an initial purchase of 3.
Keep in mind that I only purchased 1. I also noticed that they have a
special if you purchase 5. Hmmm not sure if I fall for the offer of 3 what
is going to happen. Will I then get notified that I have purchased 5 ???.
Ps: still have not received the initial 1 that was bumped up to 2. There is
a delay for Canadian orders.


>From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter@0xdecafbad.com>
>Reply-To: trixter@0xdecafbad.com,Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
>Discussion<asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
>Discussion<asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] MagicJack
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:32:51 +0100
>
>
>On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > I saw an ad for MagicJack on TV, a USB VoIP dongle with a $20:year
> > unlimited calling subscription, and looked into it. I am in no way
> > affiliated with MagicJack, except that I saw the ad and was curious. It
> > was introduced at the TED conference last April, and was buggy through
> > last Summer. But it's been around a year now, has a budget for
> > mass-market advertising.
> >
>
>you have to use their dongle (which appears to be a softmodem packaged
>as an FXS port) and their service. They do not have linux support for
>it, only windows and osx.
>
>I have already approached them about linux stuff, but that was just
>today, so nothing yet has happened more than finding out who exactly to
>contact and a proposal submitted to do the work.
>
>Based on their webpage they use G.711 as the codec (they say you need
>80kbps of bandwidth per call). It is unclear at this time if they
>support any standard VoIP protocol or not, they specifically state they
>are not compatible with asterisk, and imply they are only compatible
>with their device.
>
>It is my belief that the dongle itself is not smart enough to do
>anything but act as a FXS port, and that the software that controls it
>is what controls everything else. I do not know if they are receptive
>to linux support (which should be most BSD/POSIX compatible systems if
>my proposal is accepted).
>
>I also do not know if they are even receptive to the idea of a 3rd party
>writing and maintaining drivers for their hardware since it can cause
>them some problems in terms of support queries. My hope is yes, but I
>probably wont know until well after the weekend since it is a holiday in
>many places around the world. I further do not know if they will allow
>open source or not, I do not know if they will allow support for their
>service (regardless of the device itself) which would allow open source
>switches to utilize it.
>
>Worst case I may just get one and sniff the usb bus to see what they do
>and how they do it and code based on that, if the inet part isnt
>terribly difficult I may write something that would interface, for all I
>know its just generic SIP.
>
>
>--
>Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel
>Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200
>http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you!
>
>
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