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Phonepatch with Vonage?
Hey everyone!
Long time no RAP. I'm getting set up at my studio for doing VO work these days. I don't have a phone line yet--but I got the cable modem going. Is there any reason I shouldn't use Vonage (voice over IP) for the studio. The main issue I have is needing a phonepatch to integrate with it. But from what I can tell (not a lot of techy info on their website) they split my cable signal and have a built in digital to analog converter that leads to any external analog phone. Ao a phonepatch should be simple. Or am I missing something? Does Vonage only work with digital phones? Anybody know of a decent and easy to use phonepatch in general? --Cheers! --Kooch |
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The Kooch wrote:
Hey everyone! Long time no RAP. I'm getting set up at my studio for doing VO work these days. I don't have a phone line yet--but I got the cable modem going. Is there any reason I shouldn't use Vonage (voice over IP) for the studio. Check up on 911 service carefully, and make sure you've got an UPS on all the appropriate gear, and it should work just like a phone line. The main issue I have is needing a phonepatch to integrate with it. But from what I can tell (not a lot of techy info on their website) they split my cable signal and have a built in digital to analog converter that leads to any external analog phone. Ao a phonepatch should be simple. Or am I missing something? Does Vonage only work with digital phones? This is a second hand report - it presents a hybrid telco connection, just like a phone line. The box you'd use terminates all the digital/IP stuff and offers a POTS interface. Again, I'm reporting this second hand from a Vonage customer. Anybody know of a decent and easy to use phonepatch in general? --Cheers! --Kooch -- Les Cargill |
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Les Cargill wrote: Check up on 911 service carefully, and make sure you've got an UPS on all the appropriate gear, and it should work just like a phone line. What you need for 911 service is a cell phone; even one that has no activation will call 911. I would not want to depend on TCP/IP in any emergency; but a cell phone is close enough to being a radio that I can almost handle it. |
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james wrote:
In article , Les Cargill wrote: Check up on 911 service carefully, and make sure you've got an UPS on all the appropriate gear, and it should work just like a phone line. What you need for 911 service is a cell phone; even one that has no activation will call 911. I would not want to depend on TCP/IP in any emergency; but a cell phone is close enough to being a radio that I can almost handle it. It's RTP over UDP over IP. No TCP. I have no earthly idea what the long term reliability looks like, nor would I expect to be able to find out. -- Les Cargill |
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The Kooch wrote:
Long time no RAP. I'm getting set up at my studio for doing VO work these days. I don't have a phone line yet--but I got the cable modem going. Is there any reason I shouldn't use Vonage (voice over IP) for the studio. The main problems with Vonage seem to be reliability and customer service. Check over in comp.dcom.telecom for some of the folks talking about them. There are some other VOIP discussions as well. The main issue I have is needing a phonepatch to integrate with it. But from what I can tell (not a lot of techy info on their website) they split my cable signal and have a built in digital to analog converter that leads to any external analog phone. Ao a phonepatch should be simple. Right, you get a little Cisco box that plugs into your local Ethernet and has an RJ-11 POTS jack on the pack. Or am I missing something? Does Vonage only work with digital phones? No, you can even plug a 1950s 300-set into the Cisco box, and it will work just fine. I think you will find the voice quality and separation are much poorer than with a dedicated POTS line, though. Anybody know of a decent and easy to use phonepatch in general? Whatever Harris-Allied has in their used rack for cheap. It's been a mature technology since the 1930s and the differences between them are not all that significant, other than the fancy automated-null circuits on the newer ones. Which you don't care about anyway. In fact, I _think_ you can order the Cisco box with a 4-wire interface too. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Klay Anderson wrote:
Do you need a phone patch or a hybrid? A phone patch is for output of both caller and talent mixed for recording like a reporter would use. A hybrid separates out caller and talent so that with a mix-minus you can carry on a conversation using an audio mixer. We are a JKAudio dealer and we can recommend a solution. Ah--You are correct. I used to work with a lot of ex-deejays who always referred to them as phonepatches. I'm sure that was because they thought of it as the same thing they had back at the radio stations. Thanks for the clarification! --Kooch |
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Klay Anderson wrote:
We have a 24-port router at home with a lot of stuff going on over the same DSL line and at times packet loss is an issue and that becomes audio dropouts You need a gateway with the VoIP ports and traffic shaping. Like http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=657&scid=35 or any of the Sipura phones/boxes (The Linksys has licensed code from Sipura in it and is quite affordable.) |
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