asterisk users - Jun 2007 - Wireless IP Phone with external Telephone Book

Hi,

we are searching for wireless IP Phones (DECT preferred) with have an
solution for an external telephone book. We don't want to enter all of
our numbers into every telephone, but have one location for all the
numbers and every phone looks them up there, e.g. an ldap server.

We have tried Kirk but they are working on an solution without any
information when it will be available.

Does anyone knows an vendor which supports this feature ?

Regards,

Tobias Wolf

Not perfect solution but aastra sets support xml. Which then can do server based
directory. If you can wait 2 weeks or so, I should be able to tell you how
welworks as its my next project.

D
Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
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dcbour@desktopsolutioncenter.ca

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responses)
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Wireless IP Phone with external Telephone Book

Hi,

we are searching for wireless IP Phones (DECT preferred) with have an
solution for an external telephone book. We don't want to enter all of
our numbers into every telephone, but have one location for all the
numbers and every phone looks them up there, e.g. an ldap server.

We have tried Kirk but they are working on an solution without any
information when it will be available.

Does anyone knows an vendor which supports this feature ?

Regards,

Tobias Wolf
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Tobias Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are searching for wireless IP Phones (DECT preferred) with have an
> solution for an external telephone book. We don't want to enter all of
> our numbers into every telephone, but have one location for all the
> numbers and every phone looks them up there, e.g. an ldap server.
> 
> We have tried Kirk but they are working on an solution without any
> information when it will be available.
> 
> Does anyone knows an vendor which supports this feature ?
Since you're using them with asterisk (this is the asterisk-users list 
after-all :), why not implement it in asterisk? Asterisk even has the 
voice prompts already for it too, so someone's obviously though about it 
in the past...

And this is exactly what I do in my systems, and the beauty is that it's 
completely phone independant. You could have DECT phones, desk phones, WiFi 
phones, soft phones, etc. all sharing the same phone-book.

Sure, it's not as neat as an in-phone solution (you can't easilly scroll
through the list on the phone), but it's universal over all phone types.

I implement a per-extension phone book, and a system phone book which 
everyone has. And with a web interface, you can associate a name to the 
number, then incoming caller-id works too, as long as the phone has a good 
display.

Heres a working example from some old code I wrote - which I'm sure I got 
off a web page (or the book) once upon a time in the past. (The list 
commands here won't work with Siemens SIP/DECT phones as they won't let 
you dial a trailling star, it's a # in the latest incarnation) This is 
only 10 numbers per phone, but it's easy to change for more (eg. *000 
through *099 for personal ones, or *100 through *199 for system ones - 
left as an excercise to the reader ;-)

Gordon


;=====================================================================; Personal
speed-dial:
;       Let the user assign a personal speed dial code
;       From *00 through *09
;=====================================================================
;    Setup: *0 then a single digit 0-9 then the phone number to store at that 
location

exten => _*0X.,1,Answer()
exten => _*0X.,n,Set(me=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => _*0X.,n,Set(pos=${EXTEN:2:1})
exten => _*0X.,n,Set(num=${EXTEN:3})
exten => _*0X.,n,Set(DB(${me}/sd${pos})=${num})
exten => _*0X.,n,SayDigits(${num})
exten => _*0X.,n,playback(at)
exten => _*0X.,n,playback(position)
exten => _*0X.,n,SendText(*0${pos}=${num})
exten => _*0X.,n,SayDigits(${pos})
exten => _*0X.,n,Macro(starAck)

;    List:              *0X*

exten => _*0X*,1,Answer()
exten => _*0X*,n,Set(me=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => _*0X*,n,Set(pos=${EXTEN:2:1})
exten => _*0X*,n,Set(num=${DB(${me}/sd${pos})})
exten => _*0X*,n,GotoIf(${num}?:noNum)
exten => _*0X*,n,SendText(*0${pos}=${num})
exten => _*0X*,n,SayDigits(${num})
exten => _*0X*,n,playback(at)
exten => _*0X*,n,playback(position)
exten => _*0X*,n,SayDigits(0${pos})
exten => _*0X*,n,Hangup()
exten => _*0X*,n(noNum),playback(that-number)
exten => _*0X*,n,playback(is-not-in-the)
exten => _*0X*,n,playback(speed-dial)
exten => _*0X*,n,playback(system)
exten => _*0X*,n,Hangup()

;    Recall and dial:   *0X

exten => _*0X,1,Answer()
exten => _*0X,n,Set(me=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => _*0X,n,Set(pos=${EXTEN:2:1})
exten => _*0X,n,Set(num=${DB(${me}/sd${pos})})
exten => _*0X,n,GotoIf(${num}?:noNum)
exten => _*0X,n,SendText(Calling: ${num})
exten => _*0X,n,Goto(${num},1)
exten => _*0X,n(noNum),playback(that-number)
exten => _*0X,n,playback(is-not-in-the)
exten => _*0X,n,playback(speed-dial)
exten => _*0X,n,playback(system)
exten => _*0X,n,Hangup()


Gordon

Tobias Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are searching for wireless IP Phones (DECT preferred) with have an
> solution for an external telephone book. We don't want to enter all of
> our numbers into every telephone, but have one location for all the
> numbers and every phone looks them up there, e.g. an ldap server.
>
> We have tried Kirk but they are working on an solution without any
> information when it will be available.
>
> Does anyone knows an vendor which supports this feature ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tobias Wolf
>   
Hi Tobias,

I have the directory working on the Aastra 480i with the sample xml from 
Aastra and a quick and dirty bash-scripted backend. Don't know if the 
directory shows on the DECT handsets of the CT model though. Aastra also 
have a IP/DECT equipment that looks interesting for wireless deployment 
but, again, I don't know about the directory on the handset.

regards,

Drew

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