Monday, October 15, 2007

Asterisk with your TAPI application

Have you been looking to use TAPI and TAPI-compatible applications to connect to the Asterisk IP-PBX? Applications like ... Microsoft Outlook, ACT!, TapiCall, MS Dialer,...? Now you can with a Open Source Project, Activa for Asterisk, Hosted at Sourceforge.
According to the information provided by the site, Generally speaking a TAPI Service Provider (TSP) is a 'driver' that enables Microsoft TAPI to communicate to a telephony device such as a switch or modem.

Activa brings the Asterisk IP PBX to the call center. Its components aim to enable call center implementations with functionality such as computer telephony, screenpop&click2dial, agent control, automatic dialing...

The Activa package includes a basic framework that enables integration of Asterisk with your C++ applications

The package also includes an Asterisk TAPI Service Provider (TSP) we called Asterisk ActivaTSP. This TSP enables integration of TAPI third party applications and Asterisk. So for instance you could initiate outbound calls through Asterisk using your Microsoft Outlook and other applications. Call screen-popup is also supported. The TSP itself has been developed using the basic ASTProvider framework.

We invite you to download the package and try it.

Good Luck with your TAPI while I have some coffee.



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