[Asterisk-Dev] Windows

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 06:31, list at asd-group.com wrote:
> By choosing a TDM board instead of a TAPI-based one, I didn't want to start
> a cascade effect that will change every single bit of software currently in
> use, on servers and clients!!

Are there not TAPI drivers which will call "over the network", thus allowing 
you to direct TAPI related things to the Asterisk box?

> For now, I will port the drivers to Win32 as and when I can, and run a
> reduced Asterisk on the Exchange 2003 box (with which it will be
> integrated). I think this will work well as a system even on an Epia 1ghz,
> just like Asterisk & Opengroupware would under Linux. Further down the
> track, this *will* all go Linux, but not just yet.

I hear ya.  I'm using Exchange4Linux with the intent on finally retiring our 
venerable old NT4/Exchange Server 5.0 PDC.  Right now it's not being used, I 
just have not gotten the time to properly test and retire it.  :-)

I really do not think you want to run Asterisk "under" or "beside" any other 
applications.  Asterisk is a soft realtime application and if anything grabs 
the CPU or I/O systems for an inordinate amount of time you'll get audio 
quality problems and then be back here complaining that Asterisk blows goats.  
I've seen it before and I'm trying to prevent bad karma.  :-)

If you're company's that cash-starved that they can't afford a used P2-266 for 
$100 I believe you have other, more pressing issues to deal with.  :-)

-A.