[asterisk-biz] Trixbox Pro?

[Kristian Kielhofner]

On 9/1/07, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On 9/1/07, Steve Totaro <stotaro at first-notification.com> wrote:
> > The concept may be good for a home user or a very small business.  Other
> > than that, it sounds good on paper but the eventualities will have
> > customers jumping ship for CPE.
> >
>
> perhaps, but if they are doing voip and the inet is broke then there
> is little difference to having 'command and control' somewhere else
> that is managed.  The management aspect of a remote site of allegedly
> trained and skilled people can be quite appealing, while offloading
> media and other aspects to a local server.
>
> There is an open source communications platform that has  similar
> capabilities built in for call control to be hosted elsewhere but a
> local device to chew cpu for conferencing, sip registrations, etc.
> There is a tcp based socket interface that can give control of either
> 1 call or the entire switch over to a remote system, which allows for
> basically 'agi' style ability without actually shipping the agi type
> program to the customer, which can mean faster upgrades, better source
> code control for commercial apps (how many have complained that
> someone 'stole' asterisk based programs and are reselling them on this
> list alone?), etc.  However, since its not an asterisk based product I
> wont mention its name on this list.
>
> So there are markets for this type of technology, I just dont think
> the market is fully aware of some of the advantages, which is a job
> for sales/marketing types anyway.  Hosted voice apps are a growing
> market, and I think that this is just a finer scale allowing for more
> freedom and flexibility in how and where things are hosted.  Freedom
> is a good thing, as is choice, for that reason I wont condemn the
> efforts of anyone who offers a greater selection to others.
>
> As for everything else it does, I dont know, never used trixbox, dont
> really care to at this point.
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Trixter,

  What you are describing (but is powered by some Asterisk components)
is Star2Star.

  I was really excited about this type of architecture when the
founders of Star2Star first approached me to develop it almost two
years ago.  (read: I work for Star2Star).  Two years later we are
still adding applications and functionality.  It's always fun to find
out what works best (and where)! :)  Just in case anyone is curious,
we do run AstLinux on the CPE.

  Normally I don't bring up Star2Star but this is the -biz list...

  Speaking of work I'm sorry to jump into this so late - I was on vacation!

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner