I think this is pretty easy to understand. If you turn on federation and have the proper firewall rules to allow it, the user can set their "alternate" IM address in the portal (john...@gmail.com or whatever) and have the "mybuddy" alerts sent to their google account via instant messages (you received a fax, 1234567 called and didn't leave a voicemail). Another example would be: using pidgin/polycom on the desktop logged into the sipx im account via pidgin and adding other users (gtalk, etc.) see your phone status. Use cases are different, varied, and everyone has their own preferences. I gave an example on the WIKI in 2010...
http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Upgrade+or+Install+Planning+for+4.2+and+XMPP On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Robert B <d...@spudland.com> wrote: > I may be completely misunderstanding the capabilities of XMPP > federation, so I wanted to post the question to the group here. > > I have a client who is using Google Apps for Business right now. They use > Gmail, Gdocs, and of course Gtalk. > > In this scenario, is there any value (or capability) in the IM/presence > features in SipX? > > Initially, I don't see how there would be unless they're using SipX for IM > and not Google's XMPP servers. But, there might be something I am > missing... My experience with the built-in XMPP service is limited to > IM/presence in Bria and other softphones that support XMPP. > > Thanks! > > -- Robert > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: tgrazi...@voice.myitdepartment.net Fax: 434.465.6833 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 Ask about our Internet Fax services! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using or developing for sipXecs from SIPFoundry? Ask me about sipX-CoLab 2013! <http://sipxcolab2013.eventbrite.com/?discount=tony2013> -- LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: helpd...@voice.myitdepartment.net Helpdesk Customers: http://myhelp.myitdepartment.net Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net
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