[Asterisk-Dev] Wish List / Brain Storm from AstriCon

[Steve Underwood]

Steven Sokol wrote:

>10) IBM's open-source speech recognition software
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IBM haven't released any. What they released is just a few components 
related to recognition.

>11) Intel's soft-DSP chips for some advanced management of media streams.
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What do you mean by Intel soft-DSP chips?

>12) Dynamic routing protocol - ARP (Asterisk Routing Protocol).  Dynamic
>extension - (ENUM).
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ARP is a bad name, since ARP is already a core networking protocol.

>13) Voice frame size available in chunk sizes beyond 20ms.
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Do you mean within *, or only for batching in larger packets. The former 
seems bad. The latter a good idea.

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>15) Certification program for Asterisk - hardware and software.  Additional
>approvals in other markets.
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This is an interesting area, and will probably require lockdown of 
modules, so they cannot be modified without raising an alarm "NON 
APPROVED CODE RUNNING" or somesuch. The ISDN4Linux guys came up with 
something like that, which has been acceptable to the approvals body in 
the EU.

>16) IAX2 standards track - RFC submission
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A good idea.

>17) Assembler coding of codec handlers for improved performance.
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A wacky idea :-\ Making use of SIMD can help in some areas, though. 
Algorithmic changes usually get you the biggest gains, but you might hit 
some patent issues (no, not US only software patents).

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>22) QSIG - Help people migrate to Asterisk.  (Q931 can help cover some
>additional channel functions).
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Someone has done some work on QSIG in an extended libpri, but put it 
aside. It might be resurrected.

>34) Additional video codecs.  More than H261, H263.
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>35) SS7 Support for Asterisk.  Malcolm will set up a mailing list.  A new
>development group is forming.  Email: asterisk-ss7 at flanet.net
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If you want a GPL one, carry one. However, if you are prepared to pay, 
SS7 for * is now working.

Regards,
Steve