[cisco-voip] Dry Closure

[Robert Singleton]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:40 -0500, Todd Franklin wrote:
> I have a site that has just converted most of its operations to a
> touch screen PC.   Very slick!  It can incorporate the phones too, but
> the phones need what is called a "dry closure".  Apparently, NO Cisco
> VOIP phones have this.  I do know that 1 or 2 Cisco routers have cards
> that support dry closure, but i don't know if I could still run the
> phones off them.  Is there a little box or something I could put on
> the desk near the phones that would enable this "dry closure"?  Or are
> there other vendor phones that support dry closure that would still
> work with Cisco CCM??? 

I don't have a solution, but I am curious... Do you mean that their
touchscreen PC provides a dry closure to control the telephone or is it
looking for a dry closure to sense something from the phone?

I'm also curious how much control one could assert in either direction
with a single dry closure.

What is the touchscreen PC product? 

Robert