[asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

[Yuan LIU]

>From: "Steve Davies" <davies147 at gmail.com>
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:26:57 +0100
>
>On 4/20/07, James FitzGibbon <james.fitzgibbon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 4/20/07, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Are you sure eyeBeam config are binary ?
>> > I thought it was just the case for XLite.
>>
>>Having looked into it further, you're right.  For some inexplicable reason
>>it's not putting the files where the manual says they should be - instead 
>>of
>>a directory called "eyeBeam n.n" they're in a folder called 'RegNow 
>>Basic',
>>but the .CPS files there are indeed in XML rather than binary format.  
>>When
>>I last looked, I suspect I assumed that eyeBeam stored it's configs in the
>>X-Lite directory and was thus looking at the configs for the free version
>>that were no longer being accessed.
>
>I went around this loop with CounterPath a couple of months back. It
>seems that their idea of provisioning revolves around customising the
>software before selling it, so that it is locking the end-user into
>using "your" (the seller's) SIP server.
>
>They had trouble understanding that the user just paid money for this
>software, which they want to be provisioned by a server on their own
>network, and they do not support this. I gave up at this stage, but

That's because mainstream service providers only want a branded client that 
indeed locks users in.  Unless a reasonably powerful commercial entity (or 
even freelance org) exerts pressure, individual users and small companies 
can't do much.

Does a Web deployed client such as JAIN SIP applet count?

Yuan Liu

>perhaps if more people apply pressure, it will become possible to
>extend their current (quite useable) provisioning interface, but have
>a user-configurable setting to determine where the configuration is
>fetched from. At present the configuration server setting is fixed at
>compile-time by CounterPath.
>
>Regards,
>Steve