Comments on: Etel takeways, Better late than never

By: Michael Cerda

Michael Cerda — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:01:12 +0000

Gotcha. But…does this have to be done NOW? Why not later, when there is utility people will actually leverage? My grandmother used to always give me eggs with my pancakes, even though she knew I wouldn’t eat them. It was nice of her, but it was a waste of eggs.
Now that I’m a grown up and actually like eggs, I can have them anytime I want.
Really guys…I plan to build a large SIP directory here. I’m with you both on the end result. I just think it’s important to spoon feed things that people want and use as opposed to force things people don’t know or care about. IF I had a bunch of techies as customers things would be different.

By: Christopher Herot

Christopher Herot — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:03:11 +0000

Excellent point. Micheal Cerda is correct that most of our potential customers are on the PSTN, but if we really believe in openness and interoperbility we need to provide interfaces that support those goals. Relying on the TDM network to glue everything together is like printing out a document so you can fax it to someone who will put it in their scanner to store it on their hard drive.

By: MrBlog

MrBlog — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:01:52 +0000

I get that Michael. I don’t say "instead of" – I’m saying each time one adds a DID, why not also publish a SIP address to the same entry point. In most cases, it cost’s nothing to do so.

By: Michael Cerda

Michael Cerda — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:53:32 +0000

Why should we have to resort to an IP to PSTN gateway? Because there are like hundreds of millions of phones that aren’t on IP yet. We gotta go where the people are.

By: Aswath

Aswath — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:55:09 +0000

I can honestly say that I am not part of "us" that has to be ashamed. I have claimed many times that we foucs solely on PSTN connectivity and not on client innovation (without which entering SIP URI will be clumsy, requiring another PSTN heritage – access codes). I have even been taken to task on this matter, if you remember.