Hello Todd,

The problem is obvious in the Aastra firmware. We tried to get Aastra
to fix the problems, but they don't seem to care; it works on Aastra
PBX's, Ericsson PBX's and Asterisk. We are still pushing Aastra, but
it's a difficult process, and other tried and have not succeeded.

A fix to the firmware would definitely benefit the community. But
won't a completely functional work around as well?

Regards,

Niek

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems for you, that it would be prudent to document the issues with the
> Aastra phone, determine if they are SIP standards issues, or issues in the
> template of sipXecs, and develop a corrected template for them, and work
> with Aastra to fix their deficiences.  You can find cost effective firms out
> there to develop software for this open source project.   Fixing the issues
> that are keeping you from deploying to your customer, will not only fix that
> for you and create sales for your firm, but benefit the community as a whole
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niek Vlessert
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 11:38 PM
> To: sipXecs developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [sipx-dev] Aastra Call Pickup
>
> Because one of our big partners has a lot of Ericsson setups, and you might
> know that Ericsson == Aastra these days, so the Aastra phones are compatible
> with Ericsson. If these phones work fine we can get SipX in those companies.
>
> And because the hardware itself is pretty good and good looking, and not too
> expensive.
>
> And because it works just fine on Asterisk... ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Niek
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Michael Picher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why the desire to use these phones so much from an unhelpful vendor?
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2011 3:30 PM, "Niek Vlessert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello Tony,
>>>
>>> I couldn't agree more with your statement, but that doesn't get Call
>>> Pickup fixed on Aastra phones. And because Aastra is not doing
>>> anything, and we need this feature badly I'm asking for trickery. 2
>>> options: remain stubborn and require full SIP compliancy or use
>>> tricks. I guess Aastra won't listen and not supporting this feature
>>> will not increase acceptance for SipX.
>>>
>>> We are fixing the BLF in a bad way for Aastra, but in the most
>>> elegant way this bad hack can be done. :) It's like problems with the
>>> Linux kernel in the past; you can fix hardware problems through
>>> drivers or tell the company to fix their hardware. Sometimes it's
>>> good to choose the first option. This BLF ticket is from 2008, and
> nothing happened.
>>>
>>> I agree with the Freeswitch thing. Most of the time we try to not
>>> involve Freeswitch, but it has more flexability because of all the
>>> applications and no recompiling when changes are made. If we can get
>>> grip on the call in SIP without using Freeswitch it's less ugly, but we
> have no idea how.
>>>
>>> When using Asterisk we could just listen on the AMI and then bridge
>>> the call to the phone doing call pickup without doing any RTP. Where
>>> do we inject like this in SipX?
>>>
>>> If you have some trick up you sleeve PLEASE tell me. :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Niek Vlessert
>>> Telecats
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 16 sep. 2011, om 21:13 heeft Tony Graziano het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Internal calls (where call pickup comes into play) is handled by the
>>>> proxy. It's always beena goal of the project to intentionally not
>>>> use a b2bua for every phone connection in order to achieve peer to
>>>> peer media and scalability.
>>>>
>>>> I would really not put FS in that role, it's intention is a media
> server.
>>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Niek Vlessert
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> Some of you might know that Call Pickup and BLF with Aastra phones
>>>>> don't work on SipX because the Aastra firmware is not compatible.
>>>>> We already fixed the BLF issue
>>>>>
>>>>> (http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XTRN-113?focusedCommentId=55875
>>>>> #action_55875)
>>>>> but now we need Call Pickup.
>>>>> The problem is that the phone won't respond well to the call pickup
>>>>> SIP stuff. Is there a way to get control over the call in another way?
>>>>> Something like this; instead of dialing *78<extension> (which is
>>>>> call
>>>>> pickup) we dial *79<extension>. In Sipx, add a gateway to local
>>>>> port 15060, which is freeswitch, and a route to get the
>>>>> *79<extension> in Freeswitch.
>>>>> Freeswitch can execute any script. Is there a way to get to the SIP
>>>>> header and bridge the call to the phone which did the *79? I know,
>>>>> not beautiful at all, but it's a way. Some other direction we are
>>>>> thinking is that Freeswitch registers itself as a phone on the same
>>>>> extension as the Aastra phone, the dual forking feature in SipX. So
>>>>> if the number is dialed, the Freeswitch phone will also 'ring'.
>>>>> Maybe we can then bridge that call to the user who did the
>>>>> *79<extension>?
>>>>> But it we do that, then every Aastra phone needs a seperate SIP
>>>>> account in Freeswitch. Freeswitch can handle that, but that's even
>>>>> less beautiful, I'd say very ugly. ;) Anyone got a trick?
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Niek Vlessert
>>>>> Telecats
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