Roaming the mesh – for free
p2pnet.net News:- Do you want to:
- Call any SIP compatible phone service?
- Use wired or wireless devices over the mesh for full function telephony services?
- Roam the mesh – using the same phone number?
- Call other Net users for free?
You can do it all with the LocustWorld MeshAP which now supports now standards-based Voice over IP, with SIP routing capability at every node, promises Britain’s LocustWorld.
Plenty of commercial telephone switches support SIP and a combination of these, as well as open source software and regular telephone network interface equipment, means more and more (Session Initiation Protocol) SIP<->PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) gateway providers are coming online.
This in turn means mesh users can make and receive calls as if they were on their broadband connection, says LocustWorld here, going on:
"Using this system, you can quite literally have a regular telephone number, which when called causes your laptop or PDA soft-phone to ring and answering it allows you to conduct a telephone conversation in excess of the quality you’d expect from a digital mobile phone.
"Equally you can make outgoing calls to regular telephone numbers. On top of these features, SIP allows you to make and receive internet to internet calls with other users of other providers, or directly to users who are anywhere on the internet. With internet to internet calls there are no calling costs involved.
"Because this is now fully supported on the mesh, you can roam anywhere within the mesh coverage area and your phone number literally follows the SIP device, which could be your laptop, PDA or a hardware WiFi phone. You can make and receive calls to and from anywhere, whether its another mesh user or someone on the Internet or via a SIP<->PSTN gateway provider."
