Christopher van de Sande
2017-Jun-16 00:56 UTC
[asterisk-users] Is this the future of telephony?
Hey, so not particularly asterisk related, but I think the people on this list are the right bunch to ask. So does anyone here think the traditional telephone company will go extinct, and voice communication will take place via email like (or equal to) sip uri's? I just setup an anonymous endpoint in pjsip.conf and a context that forwards to $EXTEN and when I setup the correct SRV records, it seems that any SIP client that's smart enough can just dial my SIP/email address. Is this what the future looks like? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20170615/909b2cf6/attachment.pgp>
What might be good to consider is that "traditional" telcos actually use VOIP tech on the back end a lot. SIP URIs seem to be a kewl and ubiquitous solution, but for the average joe, not so easy to setup and use. And for the record, I consider wireless carriers as traditional telcos as well as wireline carriers. On 06/15/2017 05:56 PM, Christopher van de Sande wrote:> Hey, so not particularly asterisk related, but I think the people on > this list are the right bunch to ask. > > So does anyone here think the traditional telephone company will go > extinct, and voice communication will take place via email like (or > equal to) sip uri's? > > I just setup an anonymous endpoint in pjsip.conf and a context that > forwards to $EXTEN and when I setup the correct SRV records, it seems > that any SIP client that's smart enough can just dial my SIP/email > address. Is this what the future looks like? > > > >
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:56:29PM -0400, Christopher van de Sande wrote:> I just setup an anonymous endpoint in pjsip.conf and a context that > forwards to $EXTEN and when I setup the correct SRV records, it seems > that any SIP client that's smart enough can just dial my SIP/email > address. Is this what the future looks like?Look forward to a lot of SPIT (SPAM over Internet Telephony). BTW how to you expect to get the data on your mobile device? That is a "traditional" telephone company its bussiness, providing network capabilities to endusers.
J Montoya or A J Stiles
2017-Jun-16 09:23 UTC
[asterisk-users] Is this the future of telephony?
On Friday 16 Jun 2017, Christopher van de Sande wrote:> So does anyone here think the traditional telephone company will go > extinct, and voice communication will take place via email like (or > equal to) sip uri's?Hardly! The job of the "traditional telephone company" has always been to connect a pair of wires at one end to a different pair of wires at the other end. That isn't going away anytime soon. There are more pairs of wires, with more and faster-changing signals travelling along them, that still need marshalling -- perhaps in more complicated ways than just one-to-one. Whenever I am sending electrical impulses along wires and possibly via radio links, maybe even out into space and back, whether to someone in the same street or a different country, someone has to be making sure that those electrical impulses come out in the right place. That is still the domain of telecommunications companies; they are just doing it with rather more bandwidth than the human voice. The need for electrical impulses to be delivered to the correct destination still stands. What has changed is, there are more ways than ever to make use of this "electronic logistics" service, and markets are emerging and evolving. -- JM Note: Originating address only accepts e-mail from list! If replying off- list, change address to asterisk1list at earthshod dot co dot uk .