[asterisk-users] CSTA support for asterisk

[Joshua Colp]

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Underwood
[mailto:steveu at coppice.org]
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion [mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com]
Sent: Sat, 29 Jul 2006
00:47:44 -0300
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] CSTA support for asterisk


> Joshua Colp wrote:
> 
> >>Hi,
> >>   Can anybody tell me that is their CSTA support for asterisk....
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Due to the fact that nobody seems to know what it is - I'd say no. Can you
> shed any light on what it is?
> >  
> >
> In this context "nobody" would seem to mean you. Surely most people who 
> have done anything with telephony know what CSTA is.

I'm fine with admitting I don't know everything. I merely responded this way because he had posted this question a few times previously and gotten no response, so asking what CSTA is and what it would add to Asterisk my elicit a better discussion.

> Clue: try searching for specs at the ECMA website.
> 
> A number of people have talking about providing open CSTA support, but 
> I've never seen anything happen. I might be a key to allowing a lot of 
> existing applications to make use of open source telephony solutions 
> like Asterisk.
> 
> Steve
> 

Joshua Colp
Digium