Since we introduced Lotus Sametime Web Conferencing at XCOM a few years ago it became a frequently used tool today. With seven locations in Germany and customers everywhere Lotus Sametime helped us reducing travel costs and beeing very responsive when an instant meeting is necessary.
The second tool we use for real time collaboration is the Asterisk PBX infrastructure we built in the last year. We use virtual audio conference rooms provided by the Asterisk infrastructure. On some locations Asterisk connects to proprietary PBX like Alcatel or Ericcson systems, and on some locations we got rid of the proprietary and expensive solutions and started using Asterisk as the main PBX infrastructure.
Both Sametime and Asterisk ran in a separate environment and were not connected. We changed this now and connected both infrastructures. The linking pin is the TCSPI (Telephony Conferencing Service Provider Interface) framework IBM provides for integration of the PBX infrastructure into Lotus Sametime.
And here is what we have now:
Lotus Sametime connects now to most of the PBX via SIP protocol. We can initiate conference calls directly from a virtual meeting room in Lotus Sametime. Users can see who is speaking, the moderator can add new users by simply calling them right from the meeting room or adding them via the Sametime buddy list. Our PBX infrastructure remains like it is and we use our regular phones.
I think this is one of the best enhancement we could have for our real time collaboration infrastructure. It works pretty well, and we will upgrade this infrastructure to Lotus Sametime 7.5 as soon as possible.
I think customers have a strong interest in solutions that leverage the convergence of audio and computer-based collaboration tools. This might be a good offering we have in our portfolio – both as a software solution for our customers own infrastructure or as a service provided by us.
I’m trying to find the TCSPI framework at IGM’s site – do you have an URL – or better yet can you provide instructions on how you did this?
No, you will not find it. You have to contact your IBM rep, and answer lots of questions 🙂 the policy is very restrictiv, so good luck!
And if you want details – I can send you a presentation file.
Hi Kluge
I found and download TCSPI, and read Implementation Guide.
Can you send your presentation.
I´d like to integrate Sametime 7.5 and Asterisk. Can you help me?
my e-mail is ebasso [@] ebasso [.]net
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Hi Kluge
I’m trying to integrate Asterisk with Sametime 7.5. Could you please send me your presentation file for the same.
Your help would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Reshmi
Sorry, forgot to mention, my mail id is rushtoresh@yahoo.com.
Thank you.
Hello Alexander,
I´m trying to integrate asterisk PBX with Lotus sametime but with no luck so far. Could you please send me apresentation file ? Thank you very much. My email: cervenka[at]whitesoft[.]eu
Have a nice day
Alexander,
Can you send me your presentation. I’m investigating this for my company as a solution.
Please send it to slefevre[at]smcusa[.]com.
Thank you!
Scott, your email adress is not working.
I am on travel right now, so email me next week and I will respond.
Hi Kluge,
I am trying to integrate elastix PBX with IBM sametime using TCSPI.But no luck.Could you please help me.
My mail ID is metechrath@yahoo.in
Your help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Ratheesh
Hello,
We’d like to implement the same here. Can you also send your presentation. Tks a lot! yanicou-at-free.fr
Hello,
We’d like to implement the same here. Can you also send your presentation. Thanks.
Regards,
Hello,
I am also very interested on integrate Sametime with Asterisk, but I do not find enought information. I think that can add a lot of value to the solution…. Could you please send me information at andres (at) europesip (dot) com ?
Any info received would be appreciated…
Hi everybody, please contact Carsten Gericke of iLink in Germany, they built the integration – XCOM just ran the infrastructure.
Hi Kluge
I found and download TCSPI, and read Implementation Guide.
Can you send your presentation.
My Email Id: suryanarayan.panda_AT_gmail.com
Thanks in advance
-Surya.
Hello Kluge,
I didn’t get any response.Will you please share that presentation with me..
My Email Id: suryanarayan.panda_AT_gmail.com
Hi all,
I want to integrate Sametime and/or Lotus Notes with Asterisk too.
Please, could you send me all information I need to do that?
Thank you, thank you and thank you so much.
my email rgarcia_at_tedyco_dot_com
Rafael, please contact Carsten Gericke of ilink as described above in my comment.
„Nice article. I thought to let you know that ur site looks a bit messed up in the iCab 3 web browser.“
I´m working on a project to integrate Sametime with Asterix, I would ilke have your presentation. I had been working wiht Notes since release 3.0 It´s a great tool!.
So now we currently use version 8.5 and ST 8.0.your file will be a lot of help ( I´m located in Guadalajara,Mexico)
I’ll appreciate if you could send me a copy of your prestentation too
Thanks
I forwarded your request to Carsten Gericke from ilink who built the solution.