Panoramisk / The VoIP druid 

When we left traditional telephony for a VOIP solution, we have, more than before, the way to connect PBX to all other existing systems. Controlling a phone using his desktop computer is really useful.

Then Astitray’s objective is to provide:

• A simple application
• with a good desktop integration
• which allow to originate calls
• with a central phone book

Of course it is not possible to open a manager access to all desktop computers and sharing a common access will allow bad jokes (like originate a call for a friend…).

The Astitray coming with a XMLRPC server written in PHP. This one handle access control and all services. The objective of this is to create an abstraction stack for PBX communication. In this situation, it’s possible to write a “driver” for an other PBX than Asterisk.

Anyway, depending of the number of desktop computers, XMLRPC server should not be used directly with asterisk manager and a proxy must be used. But Astitray use Ajam to communicate with asterisk. For the moment, there is no proxy which is able to handle this. So writing driver for handling native manager protocol in Astitray is the next step for the project !