On Dec 25, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Cory Andrews wrote: > http://blog.voipsupply.com/new-products/first-look-cisco-spa-525g-desktop-ip-phone-with-wifi-bluetooth-and-more > > > Cory J. Andrews > Director New Market Initiatives
I posted a comment on the blog, but it does occur to me that this is a better forum for a back-and-forth discussion than perhaps the Comments section on that page. The phone looks very nice, and I think that this kind of feature set will sell well - good to see some innovation from Cisco phones! The Bluetooth capability is really nice. It would be amazingly far-sighted of them to have Bluetooth association create SIP NOTIFY events - would that be the enabler for all sorts of interesting features or what? When you (or at least your Bluetooth headset) sit down at your desk, the phone could send a NOTIFY and calls start flowing to your desk. (or "REGISTER" - not sure which would be more appropriate.) When you move away, the SIP server is NOTIFYed that you are away, and routes calls to your cell phone. (Yes, I know, I'll stop my crazy talk about "features" and "innovation" - it just gives developers headaches.) This is of course all stuff that Asterisk can or could do easily as the core, and allow those components to be accessed quickly by the huge development community. But of course that only means hardware revenue for Cisco, and no Call Manager revenue. The Open Source barbarians might storm the gates in San Jose with swords made out of Linksys phones. But I don't particularly care about the internal contentions in CSCOs product group - I'm only interested in what features are available on equipment I (we) can use. I'll throw a few more bones of contention out to see if you or someone else on the list know better than I some of the answers: No G.722 of any sort? Surprising. Also: I’ve been remiss in keeping up with these for a while. Can XML URLs be pushed into the phone on an INVITE yet or is that still a “complex feature” only available on the proprietary protocols? In other words: do a screen pop on the phone when a call comes in with some arbitrary web-based data displayed? I've tried beating that idea into the heads of the Sipura/Linksys/ Cisco people for literally 7 years now, and there has been a resounding silence. Doesn't this seem like an obvious feature? When a call comes in, have DATA on that screen instead of just caller ID. I've heard various hemming and hawing about "Oh, well, XML would be too slow" or "That would require a new RFC!" and nonsense of that ilk. Bollocks! They do it on the SCCP phones, and SIP accepts easy header extensions with no new RFC. This has been bald-faced intentional feature absence so that the SIP phones didn't steal the show from the bulky and proprietary Cisco back-end products. If those SIP phones could do it, Asterisk would eat MORE of Call Manager's lunch than it already has. Maybe I'm frustrated about something that has been possible for a long time on those phones - it's been a few years since I really delved into the manuals on the SPA software loads. Do you know if it is possible yet to do screen pops on the SIP images of these phones via an XML URL? PS: MP3's from the speaker on the phone? Err... why? Cool feature and everything, but mono audio from a speakerphone is not exactly "listening pleasure" material. JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ --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
