[Mac-telephony-list] Consensus on what / where the mac side is going.

[Mark Engelhardt via List]

Brody,

The mac side of this equation is a year or so behind the linux/pc side.

If I were in your shoes, I would get a trixbox running...

The software is here: http://www.trixbox.org/ and its easy to setup  
-- we did it in one afternoon.

You need a linux PC and a card or two from digim http://www.digium.com

It has operator panels, a GUI, mysql integration and its pretty cool.

I think most of the people on this list want something similar (and  
even cooler) for the mac.

Mark Engelhardt



On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:03 AM, brody bernardi via List wrote:

> I am amazed at the lack of consensus on what to me seems should be
> elementary.
> Isn't the sweet spot for Asterisk/OpenPBX the replacement of
> proprietary (Comdial, Norstar, Avaya) business phone systems?
> EVERY business has computers, why not use one to run the phone system.
> If a business could pull the copper pairs out of its phone system and
> plug them into a computer, it becomes a no brainer for the CEO.  The
> software is cheaper(free), the hardware is cheaper(price of PC), it
> eliminates the need for a "phone system x" administrator because it
> pulls the phone system into the realm of the computer network/IT  
> staff.
> The next step from Verizon/ATT/whoever (PSTN) to a VoIP vendor would
> be infinitely easier.  Pull out the copper pairs and plug in the VoIP
> device.
>
> Perhaps I have no right to a voice here as my company neither uses
> Asterisk/OpenPBX nor has contributed money to this project.  Perhaps
> I need to do more research on this project to comment.  Maybe this
> mailing list isn't the correct source to form an opinion.
>
> All I want (and I believe I represent a LOT of Mac users) is a way to
> eliminate my dependance on proprietary phone systems.  Let me
> configure my phone system in an easy and user friendly way (GUI).
>
> I am no phone system expert by any stretch of the imagination, but am
> I missing something here?
>
> Brody
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Edward Eigerman via List wrote:
>
>> I think the confusion is that most of the early voice compatibility
>> was in the form of the "geoport adapter" which Apple didn't  
>> officially
>> consider a modem. It was a DSP system. It's sort of nit-picking, but
>> in a lot of ways it wasn't a modem, because most of the work was done
>> in software. I don't think Apple ever shipped anything else, though
>> Global Village voice modems were very common at one point.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Martin Joseph via List wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You have to have a voice capable modem. The first voice capable
>>>>> modem
>>>>> Apple used was the Motorola SM56 which started to appear in late
>>>>> 2004
>>>>> or early 2005.
>>>>
>>>> The above is clearly wrong.  Apple had voice capable modems  
>>>> going at
>>>> least back to the performa 5200 series which included the very nice
>>>> "Megaphone" which allowed for calling and answering voice calls via
>>>> the modem...
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for nit picking.
>>>
>>> You will have to take this up with Apple then. Because the above
>>> statement is from Cupertino and it is official. :P
>>>
>>> I think though that you are referring to what was called Geoport
>>> adapters, which technically could be considered voice modems but
>>> Apple didn't consider them to be modems. Anything inside a Mac that
>>> Apple does consider to be a modem did not have voice capability
>>> before the Motorola SM56. Geoport adapters do not work with MacOS X
>>> at all.
>>>
>>>> I have a USB modem dongle and a couple of working Asterisk installs
>>>> if that helps any for testing the Unicall driver for that item...
>>>
>>> As I had mentioned, we are waiting for some stuff Apple is doing.
>>>
>>> BTW, this is a middleware, not a driver. Apple supplies the driver.
>>> Unicall doesn't know how to talk to Apple's driver. The middleware
>>> will make the link between the two.
>>>
>>> rgds
>>> benjk
>>>
>>>
>>>
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