[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk feature list: spreadsheet

[Ken Alker]

Great spread sheet!

I noticed you have Preselection/Call Screening listed.  I don't know if * 
will support it, but to be a fair comparison, you should add "screened 
transfers" (I like to call it "voice" call screening).  This is a standard 
feature on the modular ICS from Nortel.  One can enable screened transfers 
on any level of the CCR tree (ie. dial 1 for sales, 2 for support) or to an 
individual user's station.  The feature will request that the caller speak 
their name, then inform the callee who it is that is calling them by 
re-playing the recording of the callers name, and finally, give the callee 
the option to accept the call or dump the caller to the callee's voice mail.

I live by this feature.  Can * do this?

Ken

--On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:17 AM -0500 John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com> 
wrote:

> http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/Presentations/Asterisk-features-20040
> 106.xls
>
> I had been asked a while ago to put together a short Excel spreadsheet
> listing many of the "common" features of Asterisk as compared to a
> typical PBX.  Many PBX vendors supply an exhaustive list of their
> features, and I figured I'd take as many of the unique features as others
> had offered, and put them together in a big list, and then also include
> some of the features that are unique to Asterisk.
>
> I think this list will be of some use to persons evaluating Asterisk
> against their existing PBX platform, or other vendors of new VoIP
> systems.  Note that I took some liberties with the "standard feature"
> syntax: often, things that seemed _very_ easy for me to do with
> Asterisk's scripting features I listed as "S"tandard, even though it
> would require a few minutes of work.  Other features which seemed to be a
> little more complex, or which would require some web programming, I
> listed with estimates of how much time it would take to build them.  I
> assumed use of Cisco 7960 phones, so some of the features which are
> really deskset options I listed as "S"tandard if I were to use 7960
> devices.  Caveat emptor for other desksets.
>
> This is not truly a "comparison", since there are no other columns in the
> spreadsheet.  However, it's good fodder for you to whack your VoIP or PBX
> vendor on the nose with, since they typically will not be able to match
> the feature list.
>
> Olle: feel free to add to the Wiki, since you asked for this type of list.
> Anyone else: feel free to send me updates in cut/pasteable Excel form if
> you have things you'd like to add to the list.
>
> JT
>
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