[asterisk-users] Alec Saunders post about Mashable Telco's

[Tim Panton]

I don't think it is a matter of GeeWhizz, for me it is about simple  
things that make my life easier.

1) I get an SMS from meetme when the first joiner arrives , the sms  
has the DID of the conference room in it.
2) I get calls from asterisk when one of our servers are down. The  
calls are placed by a box on the PSTN so
it doesn't require any network resources.
3) If I want content delivered to mobiles I can use asterisk to spot  
a  UK mobile number and have it send an
SMS to the caller containing a link to the content I want to push.

On the otherhand there were a number of weird and wonderful asterisk  
based devices here at eTel,
like the dtmf steered vacuum cleaner or the front door you can open  
with a phonecall.

Tim.


On 2 Mar 2007, at 07:35, Dean Collins wrote:

> Interesting read in Alec Saunders blog today. http:// 
> saunderslog.com/2007/03/01/mashable-telcos/
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> Thought it may interest some people on this list.
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> As food for thought, why it is that ITSP’s haven’t come up with  
> more ‘interesting’ voice applications? When asterisk first became  
> available I thought it was the beginning of seeing really neat  
> applications, think Verzion’s iobi but for everyone.
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> I mean I love Angel.com’s (www.angel.com) 1800 speech enabled  
> services on demand but I want it available via a SIP gateway to  
> hook up with my own phone numbers, and I cant wait for more people  
> to implement Iotum so when I try to make calls I wont continually  
> be hitting voicemails (www.iotum.com) but I still think it is  
> missing ‘pieces’ for widespread adoption.
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> Where are the really interesting asterisk applications for hosted  
> ITSP’s?
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> Can anyone on this list name a Gee Wizz application they cant live  
> without? (or are we still just coding ex-girlfriend routines?)
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> Regards,
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> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean at cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +1-917-207-3420 Mb
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
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Tim Panton

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