[Asterisk-Users] TAPI development

[Steven Sokol]

Actually, you may want to make your TSP use the Manager interface.  Not
ALL of the TAPI primitives are supported, but such is the case with most
PBXs.  Better yet, you can alter the PBX source to add additional
events/commands that can be written into your TSP.

If you need the TSP/MSP (or TAPI/WAV) type of functionality, you will
need to look at wrapping AIX, SIP, MGCP, or H323 into an MSP or WAV
device.  AIX would most likely be the easiest.  You would want to
support multiple 3rd party pseudo-UAs on a single PC (i.e. multiple
"virtual" channels).

A closed-source PBX call the "IP Office" offered by Avaya uses TAPI
2.x/3.x to provide 1st and 3rd party control as well as media
interfaces.  I am under NDA so I can't go into detail.  Suffice it to
say that what you want to do can in fact be done, given enough effort.

I have a client that is interested in a TSAPI wrapper for Asterisk.  If
somebody has JTAPI we could have a large portion of the CTI universe
covered.

Regards,

Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Florian
Overkamp
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:24 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] TAPI development

Hi,

Citeren Michael Devenijn <michael.devenijn at dkma.be>:

> Has anyone ever worked opn TAPI stuff to make asterisk work with it ?
>  
> I'm a Windoze C++ developer dig'n into asterisk (and linux at the same
time)
> since a few months and i'm quite interested in creating a TAPI driver
for
> asterisk. 
>  
> so if anybody did any research in that way please inform me.
>  
> Also i've you think it's quite impossible to do it we can discuss our
idea's

I guess it would be possible, but it more or less depends on what you'd
want 
to do with it. Technically you should be able to make a virtual CAPI
interface 
that links to an asterisk (IAX) account or perhaps simply some XMLRPC
server 
(as in, VoIP calling from the PC or instructing asterisk to connect the
phone 
on my desk to a certain number, straight out of outlook or similar)

Although I have briefly looked through TAPI I am not familiar enough
with its 
capacities. Any kind of useable interface for CTI with asterisk would
serve a 
great purpose, but would - I expect - be very customer-specific...

-- 
Best regards,
Florian Overkamp

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