[asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

[Salvatore Giudice]

Most large enterprises (25k+ employees) would rather have a product backed
by a real vendor, are not willing to switch office workers to linux, and do
not see IAX as a viable option. Many customers avoid things like IAX form
fear of being tied to a single vendor.

I don't think it's generally possible to dismiss products that don't meet
all of your business requirements. It would probably be a better idea to
find a few candidates that meet most of your business requirements or at
least the higher priority requirements, and then work with the vendor's
professional services staff or your own development staff to tailor the
product to your needs.

None of the products you mentioned would ever be acceptable to the majority
of enterprise clients I work with.

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:59 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 02:00:05AM -0400, Salvatore Giudice wrote:
> If it's a law firm, they are probably using Windows. I believe the initial
> post mentioned they were using Counterpath  as well. BTW, if you are using
> X-ten, you can script a launcher application which can perform your
> provisioning download/authentication and provision the client by setting
the
> appropriate registry entries. The part that sucks with Counterpath is that
> it's difficult to generate the encrypted string they use to store the
> password in the registry key. The work around is to generate sample
> passwords and capture those from the registry. Use the plain text password
> in your sip service and set the client to the encrypted string with the
> launcher script.

You asked if we knew a specific softphone that can be provisioned.

Well, if it isn't configurable enough, it is not good enough. Then you
should not use it. Use twinkle. Use kiax. Use iaxcomm. Just don't
don't complain that this specific software is not configurable enough.

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