[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Embedded?

[Kenneth Shaw]

Right. My immediate goal is to develop a stable Softphone.

I've been working with gphone, kphone, shtoom, etc. etc. and none offer
the capabilities that I need.

Regardless of an "embedded" or stripped down Asterisk, what is so very
nice is that Asterisk already has all the various channels. So for
instance, purposing something along the lines of an object model where
you on a local system could conceivably control Asterisk as a library
from various UI implementations. So be it a softphone application, or an
application running on a handheld. The Asterisk impl. itself would then
use this same library.

While thinking about it, it seems to me that it might be a step
backward. Asterisk as is, unifies all the different codecs, protocols,
hardware, etc. and so isolating it as a library, etc. could conceivably
be backward momentum. Which is why I am suggesting an "embedded"
application, or at least a significantly stripped down model.

Although the Asterisk Internals are setup to do this easily, it seems
like a branch, sister project, or whatever, is necessary.

-Ken Shaw...


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:20, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> I've been thinking it would be better to move some of the functionality, 
> particularly the codecs, into the kernel, or possibly a generic codec 
> API that would be portable across the whole UNIX platform, similar to 
> non-kernel APIs such as PAM.
> 
> The rational behind this is that many applications (eg GnomeMeeting, 
> Asterisk, KPhone) would potentially share the same codec implementations. 
> 
> In your case, you might find that the whole of Asterisk might be 
> overkill on a handheld device, whereas all you really want is some of 
> these essential multimedia functions that could be invoked from your 
> (potentially bespoke) application.
> 
> 
> Kenneth Shaw wrote:
> 
> >I am toying with the idea of creating an "embedded" form of Asterisk for
> >two purposes:
> >
> >1) Deployment on Handhelds and Wireless devices
> >2) Deployment on Kiosk terminals
> >
> >For Handhelds & portable devices -- the idea would be to deploy next
> >generation systems that have WiFi/Cellular capabilities as well as
> >Video, etc.
> >
> >For Kiosk terminals -- either in deployment for sales terminals, or next
> >generation phone booths, etc.
> >
> >Why Asterisk? 
> >1) Supports most major Codecs
> >2) Supports most signaling protocols
> >3) Streamlined patches to accommodate bugs/quirks/etc. in other
> >implementations
> >4) Nothing like this currently exists
> >(but you knew this already, didn't you?)
> >
> >Other reasons:
> >1) Cross platform VoIP softphone
> >2) Greater compatibility in telephony applications
> >3) Embedded Hardphones running Asterisk on all types of interesting
> >hardware (can you say WiFi enabled video cellphone?)
> >
> >Any angry comments, suggestions, reference to a project already like
> >this in the works, or just plain advice, are all greatly appreciated.
> >-Ken Shaw...
> >
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