[ILUG] voip & alarm systems

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:28:26 +0000 "John P. Looney" <valen at tuatha.org>  wrote:

|  If I got in NTL broadband, is there anyway that I could still have my
| eircom phonewatch alarm dial home ? I assume I'd end up having to have
| some sort of a linux router on all the time, acting as a VoIP gateway.

To be honest, any solution which depends on multiple pieces of network 
hardware to be powered and working like that sounds a little prone to
failing at some crucial point.

One of the reasons I didn't go with ISDN was that (as far as I'm aware) 
the BRI end point needs mains power to operate. I suppose the ideal 
solution would be if one of the mobile operators provided a monitoring 
service based around GPRS, but I'm not aware of such a thing actually 
existing.
	Paul