direct works with telephones and phone systems. For communication with a phone system, direct uses a telephony server like TeamCall® or TeamCall® Express. This server typically is connected to the phone system via the network. Check out our list of compatible phone systems.
TeamCall is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris.
TeamCall Express uses the phone system's TAPI driver. Due to its use of TAPI, TeamCall Express is only available for Windows 2000, 2003, and XP. The TAPI driver must support the creation of multiple TAPI lines (so called 3rd-party-TAPI).
To connect to a telephone, a simple cable is all you need. Check out our overview of compatible phones.
The following diagrams illustrate the different connection options.
Diagram 1: direct is connected to the phone system via a telephony server (TeamCall or TeamCall Express).
Diagram 2: direct uses a direct connection between computer and telephone.
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Third-party applications can also call with direct.
Using the integrated AppleScript interface this can be done without difficulty,
for example using a FileMaker application. This functions not only when dialing,
but also for incoming calls. Here you can write your own AppleScript to send the
number of an incoming caller to be searched for in a File Maker application.
The possibilities are almost boundless.