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| Originally Posted by dmccue 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. |
I'm not sure what you're working on but large systems have hard drives and they all have operating systems. (VxWorks) The OS layer is off limits to us for a variety of reasons.
Although a big supporter of open source I know better than even try asking for it sice it all biols down to one thing...
$ Ever had to pay the software transaction fee for one little thing?
