Re: OGo and Asterisk

Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > So a groupware package that adds the VOIP phone number into contact
> > information and allows the user to "click and call"
> 
> OK, lets focus on that. (I still don't understand the point of 
> Asterisk, except maybe for long distance calls, sorry ;-)

Voice mail.  Asterisk can prove virtual extensions, and record voice
mails for a user, encode them to mp3, and deliver them to a user's
mailbox.  Then the user can play their voice-mail via their e-mail
client.

I don't see why click-n-dial couldn't be build with the existing CTI
support?  Making the little phone icon appear next to phone numbers is
easy enough, and looking up the clients source-IP in a PHP script and
correlating that with a domain logon or workstation name should
certainly be possible.  We actually tried this with out Nortel BCM VOIP
phone system - but it doesn't support any remotely open protocol for
actually initiating the call from the extension.
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