Revolution Telephony

[Bill Vlahos]

I attended the telephony session at Macworld where this was discussed 
in great detail.

Apple has, in fact, crippled the modem functions of current Macs but 
that doesn't mean that good things aren't coming. It looks like we will 
soon see USB devices which have all of the functionality that we used 
to see with serial devices but they will be both inexpensive and 
numerous. The old Macs would only come with two serial ports although 
you could add multiport cards. With USB we could have whole banks of 
them attached to a single computer.

Apple has also let die their pioneering telephony manager system 
software but is likely to follow their recent trends of using new open 
standards for telephony in a future release of the Mac OS.

I wish it were here now, but the speaker indicated that things are 
getting really close. He was able to talk about some of them but only 
hinted at the others.

I wish it was here now.

Bill Vlahos

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:36  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote:
>
>> May I add this to the list:
>>
>> <http://www.megaphoneco.com>
>>
>> Their new offerings are right-on for what the thread seems to be 
>> looking
>> for.
>
> Yes.  MegaPhone and PhonePro are back. ( And PhonePro is a lot cheaper 
> than it was years ago.)
>
> And MegaPhone is controllable with AppleEvents (AppleScript), so a 
> stack can control it.  I don't know if such a combination would have 
> the power of PhonePro, but it might.
>
> But Apple has crippled the internal modem to the point that just about 
> all MegaPhone would be able to do with it is dial out and I think it 
> can't even do that under Classic.  You need to get external phone 
> hardware.  Or find an old 840AV.  (As mentioned earlier, we can 
> already dial with Revolution.)
>
> The current version (9) does not work on OS X except somewhat under 
> Classic.  I get the impression that the MegaPhone folks thought that 
> 10.2 was going to have telephony support.  Maybe it will eventually.  
> Version 10 of MegaPhone for OS X may come out then.
>
> I'd keep an eye out for Bluetooth developments.  There seem to be 
> wireless phones and PDAs with Bluetooth.  And cordless stereo 
> earphones.  I haven't seen ones with mics but I expect they will be 
> out soon.  I have seen a couple Bluetooth POTS adaptors, but that area 
> seems immature.
>
> And on IP phone standardization.
>
> I don't know much about what is going on these days, but it would be 
> great if Revolutionaries can be part of telephony or at least the 
> personal telephony niche, whatever that is.
>
> Dar Scott
>
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