On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:09 +0200, Johansson Olle E wrote: >21 aug 2008 kl. 16.47 skrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Yesterday I blogged a post about some ideas that I think will help >> Asterisk appliances further penetrate SMB/SOHO sites in ways that are >> not presently being addressed. > >I would prefer if you mailed the content too. After all this is a >mailing list. Clicking on the link >just to see what the topic is is something that most readers won't do. >And it doesn't benefit the >archives either. YOu can add a link, but just saying "Hey, I blogged >something interesting" >without saying anything about the topic is not very helpful. > >Just some friendly advice if you really want a discussion. Of course, >I clicked, read and commented ;-)
My appologies. I'm mindful of not posting inappropriately to mailing lists. Many thanks to those who read to, and the few who saw fit to comment. My premise is very simple. Any Asterisk Appliance in a small business stands a good change of being core infrastructure. If it has hooks to extend its reach easily into aspects of the business just beyond the basic telephony/UC sphere then it may be dramatically more valuable to the end user. In my particular case I have some nice Polycom and Aastra desk phones. I'd like to leverage the XHTML browsers in those phones to serve some utility functions, like opening an electric door release, electric gate, etc. I don't see why this sort of thing needs to be as difficult as it is presently. It seems that at the moment such matters are wholly DIY, or at best left to a consultant. This takes them out of the sphere of possibility of a large number of smaller installations, and therefore reduces the potential utility of the PBX. That seems a waste. The appliance approach is supposed to make things easier for end user sites. I think that we should take a broad view of that, and not focus solely on the telephony aspect. Consider the device a possible solution to a variety of business needs. Of course, there are limits. I'd never suggest a production Asterisk box be used as a file server beyond provisioning phones. Michael Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
