[asterisk-users] Console softphone

[Lee, John (Sydney)]

>> Hello all!
>> Is there a way to (mis)use asterisk itself as a softphone? Can 
>> I make a call
>> from within the CLI? Can asterisk from itself produce a ringtone? I
>> Or can bind a system-command to incoming calls?
>> Any help is sincerely appreciated!
>You can install a browser softphone on the same server and make calls from >any browser.

Better still - is it possible to SSH (or some sort of connection method) from a remote PC to the Asterisk server and make a call using CLI?