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Freeswitch Today
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP
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Some intense examination of the requirement to tell people you are recording a call with the regulars while waiting for FS bridge to successfully UNmute it self. Note that ZipDX implemented the warning when you connect to the bridge if recording is on. Some reminders about *6 to toggle mute state.
The origin of “Look to your skies for a warning! Keep watching the skies!” Naw, I cut that part but I wanted to add the link in this post, because I didn’t get more info from FS about what to put here. Great movie, “The Thing from Another World”, featuring James Arness (“Gunsmoke”) as “The Thing”. One of the best science fiction pictures from the fifties, and one that helped define the genre.
From yet another world, (the Freeswitch bridge), Pacman sounds, and then belched forth the actual meat-space aural personna of the like of Brian West, Michael Collins, Anthony Minessale, Darren Schreiber and a few less-stellar voices…
From their site at Freeswitch.org: “Created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools.
FreeSWITCH was originally designed and implemented by Anthony Minessale with the help of Brian West and Michael Jerris. All 3 are former developers of the popular Asterisk open source PBX. The project was initiated to focus on several design goals including modularity, cross-platform support, scalability and stability. Today, many more developers and users contribute to the project on a daily basis.”
Chris Veazey of Blink Mind On SIP Video Calling
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This coming Friday, August 13th will be yet another Voip Users Conference double-header. Starting at our usual 12 Noon EDT we have an overview of the Freetalk Connect SMB PBX featuring Skype integration.
Then immediately following, at 1pm EDT, we have Chris Veazey, VP Engineering of Blink Mind, to discuss the current state of the industry with regard to multi-media phones and SIP-based video calling.
Blink Mind has agreed to provide a video conference bridge (MCU) as part of their appearance. Further, as Blink Mind are a Polycom partner, Polycom has graciously provided a pair of Polycom VVX-1500 Business Media Phones on loan. One VVX is at Randy’s location in California, and the other in my home office.
As we aim to explore the capabilities of the VVX-1500 and similar desk phones, the video portion of the Blink Mind call with be limited to CIF (352 x 240) resolution using H.264 compression.
Skype to Business with FREETALK Connect
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Freetalk Connect wants to put Skype on every phone in your office.
Designed for offices with between two and 50 users, the FREETALK Connect offers unified communications functionality, including Find Me, Follow Me; a unified voice mailbox; automated attendant and auto call distribution.
Intelligent routing capabilities: incoming Skype calls, as well as calls over SIP, the PSTN and IAX2, can be routed by the FREETALK Connect to any local or remote Skype user, SIP endpoint, analog or mobile phone.
Set up is simplified, enabling small business users that are not tech savvy to use it quickly and simply, without formal training. Supported telephones are plugged into the company’s network and the device auto-detects and configures them. An on-screen wizard then guides the customer through a few business-related questions that help configure the company’s communication system and enables Skype calling from every supported desktop phone in the office. Adding users and administering the system after installation is just as easy.
SIPVicious and Adhearsion
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Both SIPVicious and Adhearsion have announcements to make. Sandro joins us to explain “svcrash”, a new addition to the tool kit to stop attacks when they happen:
A new tool has been added to SIPVicious – svcrash.py. As the name implies, it crashes something – svwar.py and svcrack.py. This tool is meant to be used by system administrators and organizations that are receiving unauthorized scans on their exposed IP PBX.
Ben joins us to give some details about the evolution of Adhearsion which has had a recent version release:
This release marks the continuation of the platform with some major enhancements and bugfixes:
- Support for Asterisk 1.6 (continued backward compatibility with Asterisk 1.4)
- Added support for ActiveLDAP
- ActiveRecord now works properly with Adhearsion components
- Daemonizing of Adhearsion no longer truncates log files
- Escape commands sent to Asterisk via AGI
- Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) events now work when daemonized
- Various enhancements for improved Asterisk 1.6 support
- Various bugfixes
Nerd Vittles and the Incredible PBX
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The Incredible PBX: Free Skype, free worldwide SIP, free U.S./Canada PSTN plus rock-solid Asterisk security using the new Zero Internet Footprint™ design.
In addition to all of the Orgasmatron magic including free calling in the U.S. and Canada courtesy of Google Voice, you now get some terrific new features: randomly generated passwords for all of your extensions, free Skype support and a new backup module both of which we’ll introduce over the next few weeks. And CallerID Superfecta now is preconfigured to work out of the box with support from dozens of providers worldwide.
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