[asterisk-users] Re: asterisk-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 102

[Bill Michaelson]

asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:38:04 +1000
> From: Rob Hillis <rob at hillis.dyndns.org>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central
> 	provisioning?
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> 	<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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> I put such a request for enhancement in sometime, and as is seeming to 
> be frustratingly common for CounterPath, it was completely ignored.
>
> Were it not for the Plantronics CS-50 headsets that we bought that have 
> support in a /very/ limited number of softphones, I'd be dumping EyeBeam 
> /and/ X-Lite like the sack of crap that it's proving to be.
>
>
> Steve Davies wrote:
>   
>> On 4/20/07, James FitzGibbon <james.fitzgibbon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> 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.
>>     
>   
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