Maybe that's a little over the top but Minotaur as a broadband provider could offer a new range of electronic door bell devices that also control access to key strike locking plates.
As part of selling customers their broadband IPV6 package they are given free access to this device (or minimal cost of hardware as a way of preventing exploitation without implementation). The door bell/lock device is directly connected to an ASP web service that controls access to the property for residents, time of day access for cleaners etc, remote access for allowing remote unlock for one off repair people etc. By Minotaur offering this device for the life of the broadband connection it reduces the churn rate for your business taking pressure off looking for customers seeking the lowest margin solution making you far more profitable than you otherwise would be. This is not a technical discussion but more of a business development product design commercial discussion. It comes back to something I have been saying about asterisk for a long time. I want to go to Astricon one year and have an Asterisk System Integrator tell me that he was involved in a deal competing against Cisco and they won the deal even though the Asterisk installation was more expensive than the Cisco quote. The reason they won it was because Asterisk has far more additional functionality like Mexuar Click-to-Talk or the Iotum Relevance Engine or the Portal Blue Dashboard display. Building services is what is going to make Asterisk profitable and successful not discounts. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall > Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:00 AM > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] RE: OT (a little): IPV6 Ramifications Article > > > If there was something useful in ones kettle having an ethernet > > connection, it would probably already have it. After all, with NAT'ing > > there's no real shortage of IP-addresses. And perhaps we would already > > have K2K networks, with K2K proxies etc. > > It'd be great if I could get my kettle to generate MRTG or Cacti graphs for number > of times boiled in a period, amount of water in it at the time, amount of water > poured from it, thus being able to work out power efficiency, etc. etc. ;-) > > Regards, > > Chris > -- > C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited > For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it/chris.html > This email is made from 100% recycled electrons > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
