[asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Garstang 
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:jj at nufone.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:44 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
> > 
> > 
> > Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > > What's not specific about this...?
> > > "handle internal cid, external cid, cid override, pic 
> > codes, rate centers, incoming and outgoing black lists and 
> > white lists, findme/follow me with caller id based routing, 
> > transferring and forwarding between multiple hosts in a cluster....
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Again, it tells me you have not fully thought out exactly 
> how each of 
> > those functions fit within the realm of Asterisk.
> 
> I spent 8+ hours a day, 5+ days per week for over 6 months 
> thinking how these functions fit within the realm of 
> Asterisk. At every single turn, after going down every single 
> path, there where limitations that forced us to backtrack and 
> evaluate a different approach. A script that could handle 
> call routing, in conjection with MySQL and stored procedures 
> was the only way to implement our requirements. The MySQL 
> command had limitations, realtime was way too resource 
> intensive, unreliable and undocumented and so on. Yep... i 
> definitely haven't thought about this at all.

Oops. I almost forgot intra-organisational 4 digit extension dialling. Not just company, but organisational, where a company may have multiple organisational units. It might be possible to hack together a flat intra-business 4 digit extension dial lookup in the native dialplan, but trying to make it a multi-level organisation lookup would be pure hell... unless you farm the task out to a more advanced scripting langauge like python, perl whatever.