Re: OGo and Asterisk integration

Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
>>Since VoIP is all the rage now in NA, and Asterisk has gone gold today 
>>with the 1.0 release I just wanted to get a discussion going on the 
>>following:
>>1. how important is VoIP integration in your areas/markets of interest.
> 
> 
> There is a great deal of interest; but mostly on the Unified Messaging
> front.  Getting Voice Mail, Fax, and E-Mail in one INBOX.  I'm not clear
> on how OGo plays a role in facilitating this as it would seem to me that
> allot of logic has to occur further down in the stack (IMAP servers, fax
> servers, etc...)

Yes exactly..but then there is the issue of OGo as a remote web mail 
client..that can serve as the central collection inbox for remote users. 
  Playback then becomes a browser config issue once the inbox has been 
properly fed..:)

I was more interested in focusing at fist on the contacts app to get
the appropriate fields activated or made available for the various 
dialer options.

>>2. what levels of integration with OGo would be of interest.
> 
> 
> The dial icon is already a very impressive feature.  But it does require
> scripting external to OGo.

I must have missed that. Let me check. Ok...where can I find this gem pls.

>>Presonally, a good place to start with Asterisk is as a sip server 
>>allowing free internet based calls between sip users. This could be as 
>>simple as adding a new field to OGo in the contacts apps, ie: SIP No. 
>>and possibly taking it one step further via a scipt to call the 
>>applicable SIP application (configured in OGo) and dail the call.
> 
> 
> Intercepting a 'normal' number and processing internally (be it over
> Centrex, frame, or VOIP) is already a standard feature on most
> commercial phone systems - often called a dialer plan or map.  The phone
> system knows what numbers it can reach and how.  So I think this could
> be implemented without any modification to OGo.

Interesting.

tks

/ch




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