On 9/1/07, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Trixter, What you are describing (but is powered by some Asterisk components) is Star2Star. I was really excited about this type of architecture when the founders of Star2Star first approached me to develop it almost two years ago. (read: I work for Star2Star). Two years later we are still adding applications and functionality. It's always fun to find out what works best (and where)! :) Just in case anyone is curious, we do run AstLinux on the CPE. Normally I don't bring up Star2Star but this is the -biz list... Speaking of work I'm sorry to jump into this so late - I was on vacation! -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --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
