[Asterisk-Users] advantages of a sip phone over Wildcard TDM400P solution

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 16:38, Oliver Brandt wrote:
> Hi Andy!
> 
> Thanks for your helpfull reply!
> 
> > 
> > >snoms is? The only thing I came up with is that the Snoms can use a LDAP
> > >adressbook on the server.
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, but Snom have REMOVED this feature! They haven't taken the time
> > to update any of their sales literature either. I purchased my Snoms because
> > they said that they could use LDAP. IT IS NO LONGER TRUE!!!
> 
> That socks! But very good to know.
> 
> > dialing any sort of SIP address on either a Snom or analog phone is
> > a PITA!  What I tend to do is set up extensions in extensions.conf
> > so I can short dial people I regularly call for example:
> > 
> > exten => 4002,1,Dial,SIP/keith at sip.address.com
> 
> I'm using an ATA at the moment and that is what I do. It's ok if call
> somebody quite often but if you just want to call somebody once this 
> socks. It should not be to hard to create a webinterface that lets 
> you (and everybody else on your network) add adresses easily. I'm not to
> big on PHP so before I start this project I was wondering if anybody has
> done this already. Hate to reinvent the weel a second time.

This is why there are sip registeries. FWD is a good starting point. If
you both are registered, you ave like a 5 digit number to dial to
connect to any user on the service.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>