Re: OGo and Asterisk integration

Voip in Og would be killer ap this year!

Chris H wrote:

> Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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...)
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> 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..:)
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> 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.
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>> The dial icon is already a very impressive feature.  But it does require
>> scripting external to OGo.
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> I must have missed that. Let me check. Ok...where can I find this gem 
> pls.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Interesting.
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> tks
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> /ch
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