On 9/1/07, Steve Totaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The concept may be good for a home user or a very small business. Other > than that, it sounds good on paper but the eventualities will have > customers jumping ship for CPE. >
perhaps, but if they are doing voip and the inet is broke then there is little difference to having 'command and control' somewhere else that is managed. The management aspect of a remote site of allegedly trained and skilled people can be quite appealing, while offloading media and other aspects to a local server. There is an open source communications platform that has similar capabilities built in for call control to be hosted elsewhere but a local device to chew cpu for conferencing, sip registrations, etc. There is a tcp based socket interface that can give control of either 1 call or the entire switch over to a remote system, which allows for basically 'agi' style ability without actually shipping the agi type program to the customer, which can mean faster upgrades, better source code control for commercial apps (how many have complained that someone 'stole' asterisk based programs and are reselling them on this list alone?), etc. However, since its not an asterisk based product I wont mention its name on this list. So there are markets for this type of technology, I just dont think the market is fully aware of some of the advantages, which is a job for sales/marketing types anyway. Hosted voice apps are a growing market, and I think that this is just a finer scale allowing for more freedom and flexibility in how and where things are hosted. Freedom is a good thing, as is choice, for that reason I wont condemn the efforts of anyone who offers a greater selection to others. As for everything else it does, I dont know, never used trixbox, dont really care to at this point. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
