[asterisk-users] Ser as IVR

[Alex Balashov]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Arun Kumar said something to this effect:

> Is it possible to design an IVR using SER ? If yes please advice.

   One could certainly incorporate SER into the infrastructure of an IVR
system, particularly if it's distributed, redundant, or involves shuttling 
calls between multiple media servers.

   SER itself, however, is a proxy.  It is most emphatically _not_ a user 
agent (although it does have a registrar, but that makes it more closely 
resemble a session border controller in that application), and has no media 
capabilities whatsoever.  It is the very opposite of Asterisk in terms of
the role it plays in a VoIP deployment.  Asterisk is an endpoint, while
SER is a conduit.

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Alex Balashov <sasha at presidium.org>