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Rich Adamson wrote: Any of the more current Win32 systems can be programmed to handle near real-time events (eg, sip, rtp) just like linux, bsd, and other O/S's. Obviously, Call Manager is one such system. It's really not an O/S religious war/discussion, but rather a lack of knowledge (on any O/S that a poster might not be familiar with) on how to design/implement it in code.With that said, porting the low level drivers (zaptel, wctdm, etc) from linux to Win32 is no where near a trevial task, and would basically involve a complete rewrite of such code. Since there are very few people (maybe one or two) that truly understand _all_ the interworkings of the linux-zaptel drivers, and, I venture to guess those same people are not even remotely cognizant (no offense intended at all) of how to write Win32 drivers, don't look for asterisk to be fully ported to the Win32 environment any time soon. As far as I'm concerned, there isn't any real justification to do so either. A pbx is intended to be a near real-time system and as such should not have programmers/technicians mucking with it in a production environment. That also suggests that any form of GUI interface that is resident in pbx s/w is not only not required, but not desirable as it will lead to someone mucking with it and impacting availability. Running a GUI interface via a manager (cti or whatever) interface that is not part of the real-time pbx environment certainly is doable and has been done on lots of pbx and central office switches over the years regardless of what the underlying O/S happens to be on the switch. Those companies that have implemented near real-time systems have probably questioned their choice of O/S years after deploying production systems, but that's perfect 20-20 hindsight. Cisco (as only one example) tends to purchase the majority of their non-core products from other companies (or purchase the entire company), and in a fair number of cases, will attempt to enhance/port that product to something different generating significantly more negatives then if they would have left the product alone. I'd be one that would certainly stay away from the port of CCM on another O/S for at least a year. Rich |
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