[Asterisk-Users] windows alternitives to Asterisk?

Tue Mar 9 01:40:04 MST 2004

Contact me at your earliest convenience, we would be immediately interested
in the product for our CLEC for provisioning services to our customers.

Couple of issues for us:

- Would need to support MySQL and Oracle (should be easy to switch to ODBC
instead of Postgresql specific functions)
- Need a way to change settings on * without "reloading"... I found
something that is no longer maintained that can do this, see
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20DynExtenDB
     We already got the SIP features in
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001086 applied which takes
care of adding customers
- Would need to support virtual PBX concept for a large carrier deployment
and thousands of businesses
- Would need to support management of clustered * servers which should be
taken care of by the above 2 links and a shared file system for VM and ACD
(which would be cool if it was stored in an SQL DB too)
And much much more but the above a biggies for us.

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Michael Shuler, C.E.O.
BitWise Systems, Inc.
1301 W. Pioneer Parkway
Peoria, IL 61615
Office: (217) 585-0357
Cell: (309) 657-6365
Fax: (309) 213-3500
E-Mail: mike at bwsys.net
Customer Service: (877) 976-0711 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Devenijn [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Devenijn
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:11 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] windows alternitives to Asterisk?

I'm working on a "abstraction" toolset for asterisk, some screenshots : 

http://www.dkma.be/devenijn/data/tls.jpg
http://www.dkma.be/devenijn/data/tls1.jpg
http://www.dkma.be/devenijn/data/tls2.jpg
http://www.dkma.be/devenijn/data/tls3.jpg
http://www.dkma.be/devenijn/data/tls4.jpg

some technical details : 
- Fully based on a Postgresql DB (+/- 40 tables)
- Extensive use of macro's in the extensions.conf
- some little patches to the asterisk source (additions) to extend the
manager capability
- a layer between the manager port and the PGSQL written in C (to prevent
that each separate client would connect to the manager interface)
- some AGI scripts (written in C) to fulfill some needs which are not build
in asterisk for example : 
redirect through drag&drop.
- A program (written in C) which extracts all the info from de Pgsql and
converts it to the needed * conf files upon request 
- goal : >>everything<< works on Win32 clients : configuration, outlook
integration , panel programs, attendant program ... so we could sell a
standard box plug it to the PSTN network and the ethernet, install the
sotware on a W32 client and off they go without the explicit knowledge of
linux. the sound files (will be uploaded on a FTP on the box and copied to
the appropriate destination with the some program as one point above

I especially developed these toolset "arround" asterisk, so i do not need
the take in account the Asterisk license except for the patches which will
be published. 

development status : 
- First tests are positive
- Working on the last "big" point is the extended (graphical call router to
easily design IVR's)
- Working on a .NET SDK which also is a abstraction.
- Timing end of march ... but as everybody knows .... it could take some
more time.

Some personal statements :
- I know it is not very good to develop for windows but this is the only way
for me and for th major Small businesses outside ... and if there are some
enthousiast to convert it to a linux platform ... go ahead.
- For the moment it is quit oriented on a combination of ISDN hardware
(capi.conf) and cisco phones. once this is working without major bugs i will
extend it to (IAX.conf ... and other things)
- My only goal to develop this is to get asterisk on bigger user basis
- What i regret is the lack of developement of a interface between asterisk
and other software (for windows TAPI for example) i asked many times some
basic questions about the manager interface but nobody seems to be
interested ! i strongly belief this would be a major break through. but i do
not have enough C++ and/or Linux knowledge (and TIME ) to develop these
features. 

The sourcecode ??? 

- Well lets play it tricky ... i'm going to publish all of the code under
GPL if i see some changes to latest point i mentioned just above. (and don't
try to convince me with "ethical" arguments, i'm now trying for 3 years to
make some "descent" money with integration of open source software and i see
it as a win/win operation)

Just fire me !!!

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- 
Van: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com namens Tilghman Lesher 
Verzonden: ma 8/03/2004 21:46 
Aan: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com 
CC: 
Onderwerp: Re: [Asterisk-Users] windows alternitives to Asterisk?

On Monday 08 March 2004 13:59, hank smith wrote:
> is there a program that I can install on my linux box so I can
> configure the pbx from the internet from my windows box so I don't
> have to work with config files?

In a word, no.  There are a few GUI applications in the process of
being developed, but most of them are a substitute only for using an
editor on the Linux machine, not a full-fledged abstraction from the
configuration.

-Tilghman

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