[asterisk-doc] New portal for Asterisk: The Future of Telephony (online HTML)

[Gavin Henry]

>>> Asterisk is a vast and powerful system, but vague answers won't help us write
>>> the book you're expecting.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, sorry. Bad of me. I always assume people know what's in my head
>> when I write something!
>>
>> 3rd Edition:
>>
>> 1. For a start I would really like to see PRI/BRI stuff in the 3rd
>> edition. Even just using x-over cables.
>>
> Agreed. We'll be covering that in much detail

Excellent. This was the part that left me feeling empty when I read
version 2. All the other news bits were great, but some only
mentioned. I appreciate how long it takes and what has to be chopped.

>> 2. Something about testing ;-) Heh.
>>
> Testing? Who needs testing? :-p

Say no more!

> In all seriousness, though, we will be giving much though to the kinds
> of problems that people commonly experience, and ways to address those.

It's always a hard and fast moving target to address. I wish you luck.
Will this list and a wiki be used for general review?

>> 3. Something about benchmarking and call capacities on a modern *
>> system. I think this may be covered already though.
>>
> We do talk about this a bit, and we'll probably do a bit more of it.
> That's certainly an interesting topic.

Yeah. I'm sick of hearing * can only do 200 concurrent calls. Baaa....

>> Advanced:
>>
>> 1. An Advanced edition may cover something about OpenSIPS or Kamailio
>> and other sip proxies using Asterisk.
>>
> This is something to give some serious thought to, but the simple fact
> is that all those SER-based projects are pretty complicated, and our
> book (as with any book) needs to be true to it's subject. I think what
> you might find us doing is giving a more thorough treatment of the SIP
> protocol itself, but we'll see what time (and skill allow). It's a good
> suggestion, though.

I appreciate that too. Now IAX2 is a proper RFC, I'd like to see both SIP and
IAX2 get more details. But again, it's a trade off. Beginner book or
Advanced. Don't
want to scare people and set the barrier too high.

>> 2. Linking different PBXs together.
>>
> Yep. Good idea and one we've got on the planned outline.

Nice. Lot's of things can be done, but maybe just two are needed:

1. Connection/extending a system over some form of VoIP, H.323, SIP
etc. I'm thinking
about Avaya here.
2. Connection/extending a system over PRI/BRI/analogue etc.

>> My understanding of advanced, may be someones "beginner" and vice
>> versa, so I'll leave that up to you.
>>
>> That's about it until it comes to a point where you'd need a book per topic.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> Thanks for the suggestions. They are all good ones, and we'll be bearing
> them in mind as we go forward.

Excellent.

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