asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and...

Mythical Asterisk Creatures, oft-discussed, rarely seen:

1) An "advanced" graphical user interface

2) An IAX2 hardware device

3) A Radius CDR report module

4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan

5) LDAP/SQL/Radius authentication for SIP phones

6) Robust R2 signalling support

7) Multilingual language recordings of all existing * .gsm files

8) Free exchange of PSTN gateways in a centralized routing arbiter model

9) Speech recognition support


Care to add your own unicorns to the list?  I make no judgement nor 
do I cast aspersions on any of these items, but I seem to recall 
seeing comments about "I'm working on..." or "It would be
really
great if..." on all of these without seeing real evidence on any of 
them other than talk.  The only well-remembered myth I can say for 
certain that has been dispelled is the SCCP channel driver, and that 
has been moved out of "Loch Ness" status to "peer-reviewed"
status.

JT

wan't to add DS3 and SS7 to that ?
also licensed g723.1 and working g729
softfax and softmodem

that's what comes to my mind on the spot ...

On Thursday 09 October 2003 9:51 am, John Todd wrote:
> Mythical Asterisk Creatures, oft-discussed, rarely seen:
>
> 1) An "advanced" graphical user interface
>
> 2) An IAX2 hardware device
>
> 3) A Radius CDR report module
>
> 4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan
>
> 5) LDAP/SQL/Radius authentication for SIP phones
>
> 6) Robust R2 signalling support
>
> 7) Multilingual language recordings of all existing * .gsm files
>
> 8) Free exchange of PSTN gateways in a centralized routing arbiter model
>
> 9) Speech recognition support
>
>
> Care to add your own unicorns to the list?  I make no judgement nor
> do I cast aspersions on any of these items, but I seem to recall
> seeing comments about "I'm working on..." or "It would
be really
> great if..." on all of these without seeing real evidence on any of
> them other than talk.  The only well-remembered myth I can say for
> certain that has been dispelled is the SCCP channel driver, and that
> has been moved out of "Loch Ness" status to
"peer-reviewed" status.
>
> JT
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>
>Mythical Asterisk Creatures, oft-discussed, rarely seen:
>
>1) An "advanced" graphical user interface
>
>2) An IAX2 hardware device
>
>3) A Radius CDR report module
>
>4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan
>
>5) LDAP/SQL/Radius authentication for SIP phones
>
>6) Robust R2 signalling support
>
>7) Multilingual language recordings of all existing * .gsm files
>
>8) Free exchange of PSTN gateways in a centralized routing arbiter model
>
>9) Speech recognition support
10) Database abstraction module for ...CDR, SQL Dial Plan, DBGet/Put, *
config files

11) SoftFaxModem

12) SS7 Signaling

13) WEB Interface for Users/Admin

> 1) An "advanced" graphical user interface
> 4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan
I beleive these two are the most important ones. Possibly web-based to
make it portable. A GUI written in perl or php working down on a
postgresql db? It shouldn't be too hard to write that if 4) is
implemented. I can do some of it myself too...

roy