I’ve been busy with patching servers for George Bush’s latest fundraising effort for the Iraq war so I haven’t had much time to write about recent technology developments, but I did find a few hours to attend Ian Darwin’s great talk last night on provisioning IP phones, particularly the Nortel i2002/i2004 series of IP phones, with Asterisk.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Last Wednesday I attended a talk at the Toronto Asterisk Users’ Group given by Hung Lam, Aastra‘s IP Product Portfolio Director, on the topic of developing XML-based services for Aastra’s IP telephones. It’s clear that Aastra is trying to compete with Cisco in the same space; Cisco’s Unified IP Phone portfolio includes support for their own XML-based information services. In fact, Aastra’s own XML dialect is based largely on the equivalent Cisco dialect.
I won’t go into details about Aastra’s offering in this space; hopefully TAUG will be able to procure Hung’s slides and put them up on its website to give a PowerPoint-style overview of Aastra’s feature set. (The XML Development Kit also includes extensive documentation and sample code for developers wishing to implement their own applications.) I only wanted to make a couple of observations, as follows. Continue reading…
