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GoogleTalk Gets a Facelift for Business: Page 3 of 3

Then there are the applications. Service providers will be able to use GoogleTalk federation to link one another and offer termination services, but why couldn't enterprises offer corporate unified messaging for their GoogleTalk users now? Basically, anything one can do with an Asterisk extension you should be able to do on a GoogleTalk extension. O'Gorman says they'll be able to pipe the text functions through Jingle so administrators, for example, will be able to control their Asterisk servers via their IM client.

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For more information about Jingle and all things Jabber-related (and a few other topics to boot) check out Peter St. Andre's site. And yes, do buy him a book.