On 7/10/07, Stephan von Krawczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The "market share" will grow faster if the project works better in fields where asterisk was somehow "taken over" by company interests and merely no steps forward are seen. This is namely ISDN and PSTN setups where hw producers try to gain shares by denying features for other hw or producing weird patches.
Or compatibility with Cisco SCCP Phones. There's a lot of functionality there that SIP doesn't presently have. However, we'll never see the integration into Asterisk because certain people just don't care. I don't understand the attitude where everything has to be generic. That usually results in everything working together at the lowest common denominator. With their philosophy, I'm surprised caller ID was ever added. I know some analog phone that don't support it. Anyway, the whole SCCP thing is one of my frustrations. I think a lot of functionality that small businesses expect can be achieved with this versus limitations of SIP. For example, I don't like the idea that somewhere could answer the phone, transfer the call to someone else, hang up before they answer, which makes it a blind transfer, but the Caller ID still shows the internal caller. SOmething similar to that is where someone does an attended transfer. They ask if you want to take the call, you say yes, and then there is the uncomfortable moments of wondering when the transfer took place. Our old system updating the caller ID information when the transfer happened. Both the above scenarios can be done using the Linksys LVS 9000 system using SIP, so I guess it's possible with SIP. Maybe it's because the others just don't want to add that. I don't know. We use Asterisk only because I haven't found anything else that has the call flow features Asterisk does. I've even thought about using Asterisk as only a front end to something else. I even thought about putting our old system back in. But, I really like having a phone at my house, and the old system wasn't VoIP. One other thing that small businesses just don't like is the multiple key presses to take a call someplace else. Skinny has a button for park. Works great. Press the button, the phone displays the parking location and announces the location. As it is, the users here have no idea how to pick up a call someplace else. Every method out there is too complicated for them to remember. The old system, they put the call on hold, then went to another phone and pressed PickUp followed by the extension they put the call on hold at. Worked fine for them. I've actually heard someone tell a caller to call them back on their cellphone, or that they will call them back on their cellphone because they have to go to another office. Something has got to be done about that. The other guys just don't care. I've been watching Callweaver and been trying to play with it. I guess now I know why I had so much problems with rc4. Unfortunately, I can't code worth a crap, but as you can see, I can contribute by complaining :-)
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