On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:03 PM, gergis.rasmy<[email protected]> wrote: > does Asterisk suppoet CSTA protocol for CTI applications
I'd never heard of it, so I googled it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-supported_telecommunications_applications So, ummm, I can't think of a good synonym for this, but it sounds like it's a high-level abstraction of how people may choose to communicate using 'computers' and 'technology'. While I've never heard of Asterisk explicitly supporting this, it sounds like: * partial implementations of features is good enough to be considered 'implementing' the protocol * because you can use asterisk to make phone calls, asterisk could be coerced to meet this model if there is some reason that it does not now meet the requirements that I could find in my ten minute googling. The stuff about XML and high-level ways of initiating communications independent of a channel sounds cool, but also kind of iconoclastic and against the traditional way of how PBX systems are designed and thought of. I think of 'phones' people talking about PRIs and DSPs and TLAs, and being knee-deep in signaling protocols. My thoughts reading the documents for some CSTA conference: * oh no, another protocol * and we thought people had trouble with the learning curve of phones and asterisk _before_ * interoperability is already a problem with simple, fairly straightforward protocols. Good luck building a high level interface that makes the underlying implementation incompatibilities go away. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
