Quote from: Taoman on August 13, 2018, 06:51:11 PM
Wish I knew some details of the arrangement between Polycom/Obihai and Google vis-à-vis Google Voice and any possible "exclusivity" involved.
The only parties that actually know are not going to be talking. I suspect (but do not know) that Google would be open to consider negotiating with other parties than Plantronic/Polycom/Obihai, but I'll bet you are going to have to be a bigger player to get into the game (and possibly throw some resources into the pot). AFAIK there is no one outside of Obi who have managed to successfully get into contact with the right people at Google to take any next steps (even though I am pretty sure at least one person did try when the dung hit the fan).
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I also question, as you do, whether Google/Obihai will continue to allow 3rd party access to obihai.sip.google.com.
I can easily see that others should be requesting their own endpoint as part of the negotiation with Google. As Bill documented, there are clearly endpoints for multiple entities in addition to obihai (although many look to currently be under the other bets, such as
fi.telephony.goog, and
waymo.telephony.goog, although we do not know how many others may exist out there (well, I should say *I* do not know how many others are out there, since I have not performed the research experiment beyond the fi and waymo)). Those may be related to potential future load balancing, but they may also be related to potential licensing or access arrangements. We just don't know. I would be slightly more concerned about the registration name, which (for true obihai devices) reflects the obi device number, and it is clearly possible that devices which are not true obi devices will get purged at some point as not legitimate. But again, we just don't know. I would not worry about any of those things very much as long as you do not end up building solutions that have extremely high expectations of reliability and availability (and if you are I would certainly recommend getting in touch with Google first to avoid problems).