Voice over IP (VoIP)

I see a lot of reference to VOIP and the Cisco 7940 model phones working on the Mesh.

I have a RPi programmed and setup on the Mesh, and I have a couple Cisco 7961 phones I would like to use for testing.

Has anyone tried or been successful using the 7961 model working on the mesh and have any information to assist ?

73 Loren, N4LDR

http://bearware.dk/

This VoIP software solution looks very promising. You can set up a guest account that all users log in with and then they can change their username as appropriate. Also allows for videoconferencing as well as file sharing.

I do volunteer work for the American Red Cross, New Jersey Region, on the Disaster Services Technology (DST) team. About 3 weeks before the recent visit of Pope Francis to the United States, I was contacted by Fred, WW2VEH, to discuss a backup plan to cover communications in cities in several states: New York City, Fairfield, NJ, Tinton Falls, NJ, and Philadelphia. What made this discussion interesting was that 3 Red Cross regions needed to communicate for one event, a situation not normally encountered.

For your deployments, are you using some type of pbx or sip server? Or are you dialing by IP or creating local phone books of some sort?

I really like the idea of not having a centralized server to depend upon, but I also like the ability to provide off-mesh calls or having a centralized phone book.
 

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Message originally posted by kg9dw

These series of phones work great, and will receive and dial-out calls via IP address.
They work right out-of-the-box, with no setup or configuration needed. A PBX/SIP is not required, but they work on those systems as well.

As a bonus, the phones have a small LAN switch...with  two ethernet ports total; you can plug your computers ethernet cable  into the phones second ethernet " PC" port and gain access to your Mesh node. You can surf Mesh and carry on a VoIP conversation at the same time.