| The switch DESPERATELY needs a hard-drive and an operating system (UNIX)
The entire phone software would be a daemon with a configuration file.
To modify anything you simply change the configuration file using ssh (/scp) then reload the daemon.
This approach doesnt seem like much but the power this has is astonishing.
You could have a modem rack attached that would do voice synthesis and can also do anwsering machine functions.
You simply have a webserver elsewhere that will modify the configuration file then restart the daemon twice a day.
If wireless routers such as the WRT54GS can have embedded linux running on them I dont see why Nortel does not take this approach. |