Well it just goes to show the internet is the ultimate ‘pipe’ from one thing to another. Â And in this case, people who collect legacy phone systems (yes they do exist, the people not the phones, I mean the phones of course they exist!) wanted a way to interconnect their various switches and sets to eachother.
Enter Asterisk
So it’s cool, they’ve established a wold wide network, collaborative net, or C*NET.
Which reminds me, one of these days I want to do a multi-site asterisk deployment with speex as the back end haul and see how that goes.