Re: OGo and Asterisk

"Mark Harrison" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helge Hess" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [OGo-Discuss] OGo and Asterisk


> So xAP is the standard protocol for triggering the Asterisk PBX to dial
> a number?
>
> Unfortunately the websites on xAP are rather confusing ;-) Is that a
> binary protocol, does it go over TCP/IP, is it some XML protocol, HTTP,
> etc?

xAP is a protocol for Home Automation.

It's human-readabale, goes over a variety of transports including IP (but
also RS-232, RS-485, 1-wire, etc.), and deliberately isn't XML. The reason
it's not XML is one of size, and therefore latency over the slow
communication links.

It's a community initiative rather than coming from a specific manufacturer
or consortium. The Asterisk xAP-plugin is written by an independant
developer rather than any of the original Asterisk team (go OpenSource!).

Mark

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