Re: xAP Asterisk integration

[Gregg Liming <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please ignore this post now... it was sent before James addressed this
very subject.

Gregg

Gregg Liming wrote:

>Kevin Hawkins wrote:
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>>Great stuff Ove, and Gregg I wish I could have more input on * and
what
>>should be implemented but I don't as yet use it , but would with a
xAP
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>Since you have so graciously offered... ;)
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>I do have one question (or perhaps, just the prelude to a lot more...)
>regarding the treatment of dialing "resources" and their
mapping to
>source or target names.  In a pbx system (which * implements), it is
>often logical to think of a set of sending or receiving
"channels".  In
>some sense, your treatment of PSTN or Skype is such an example.
>Further, it is often the case that a channel be specifically identified
>or addressable.  In the PSTN world, these are hard, physical lines.  In
>asterisk, the use of channel banks, and VoIP providers opens this up to
>many more options.
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>I notice that xAP Switchboard allows some mapping of source to
"line".
>That caused me to begin thinking about how this might be implemented
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>specifically, thinking about subaddressing.  I know subaddressing is
>used for BSC; is it restricted to BSC or is it appropriate for other
>schemas (such as the telephony ones)?  The motivation for considering
>subaddressing is that I had rather assumed that the asterisk xAP app
>would occupy the primary address (source or target).  So, to send
>message to some phone managed by asterisk (for example, to initiate a
>call outward), the subaddress might be something like sip.2001 (where
>sip is the logical channel and 2001 is the "extension"). 
Likewise, if a
>Incoming.CallWithCID is sent, it would be nice to know what inbound
line
>is receiving the call.  Since xAP switchboard seems to associate
sources
>w/ lines, then subaddressing seemed like a natural path.  Am I off-base
>here?  If not, does xAP Switchboard handle subaddressing for line
>association?
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>Gregg
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