FreeSWITCH

We are almost ready to release FreeSWITCH Pheonix version 1.0.2 A few things you can look forward to include: *) Embedded Microsoft .NET support. *) Voicemail forwarding with prepended announcement. *) mod_loopback - A loopback channel ... [More] driver to make an outbound call as an inbound call. *) Several fixes and cleanups thanks to all the testers.   Stay tuned for the complete changelog.         [Less]

There is a new story about us at http://www.anders.com/cms/275/FreeSWITCH/ClueCon/Anthony.Minessale It's written by Anders Brownworth based on our conversations at ClueCon 2008  

We've checked in a barebones mod_fax and the community is putting together an effort to get faxing support from spandsp (http://www.soft-switch.org). Come join the fun on IRC or help be a beta tester.  

I am thrilled to report that my fears were unfounded.  Digium Indeed has posted all the comments on their blog discussed at http://www.freeswitch.org/node/138 They just seem to have been a tiny bit lagged.  Let the spirit of Open Source prevail.        

This is pretty sad. I hope they are just short-staffed. I read this article yesterday and was surprised to see that buried in a defensive stance against sipXecs and Nortel were comments claiming my experiences with Asterisk where "rhetoric" and ... [More] calling us a "Competing Open Source Project" (I am not sure what we are competing for, I thought we were on the same side, but ok) http://blogs.digium.com/2008/08/19/asterisk-the-global-leader-in-open-source-ip-pbx-and-telephony/ Here's what he said that caught my eye: "You should recognize that the Asterisk rhetoric from the sipXecs and FreeSwitch teams refers to Asterisk over 4 years and several versions ago when they last looked at the feature set." This guy clearly didn't work there when I was an Asterisk developer and he has no idea the last time I looked at Asterisk because I still have had patches added to Asterisk SVN as recently as Nov 2006. I did a heck of a lot more than "look at the feature set" thank you very much. Anyway, I posted a comment with my feedback and almost 24 hours later it's still awaiting moderation. The sad thing was all it said was that we should all work together. Screen Shot Showing Comment PDF of posting with comment. Here is my comment anyway since they won't post it: I didn't know open source projects had to compete. They are all free aren't they? I think that's the whole problem here. Calling my list of valid issues with Asterisk rhetoric, won't make them go away. Pretending Asterisk does not suffer from any problems and only pointing out it's strengths is not the way to make it better. Please admit that I have done more than most people are willing to do for completely FREE to try to make Asterisk better for several years. I only know enough to itemize the issues from that *long* experience as a an Asterisk developer. I, in fact, invented the whole idea of the "function variables" that now are rampant in Asterisk 1.6 and there are *plenty* more things I could list if I wanted to. I also see plenty of ideas we have already implemented in FreeSWITCH starting to crop up in 1.6 as well. This is the nature of open source. If Digium chooses to actually cooperate with the open source telephony community there is much to be gained for all. [Less]

It's starting to get very interesting over here in telephony land. First came an announcement that SIPfoundry is using FreeSWITCH in sipXecs Then the announcement of Nortel's acquisition of Pingtel It really looks like things are heating up and this ... [More] blog post I came across underscores that sentiment. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/att/open-source-communications-war.html [Less]

Here's an Interesting Blog Post I came across today. The post and the post it in turn refers to have some good perspective on open source VoIP. http://thethomashowecompany.com/423/mark-spencer-jay-phillips-and-the-cl... Another take on the same story is available here: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2008/08/has-asterisk-no.html

Weather couldn't stop us, ClueCon 2008 is underway!  Today we announced support for IPv6 in version 1.0.1! A big thanks goes out to Marc Blanchet and Simon Perreault

Here are a few interesting articles across the net about FreeSWITCH FreeSwitch Attempts To Punctuate Asterisk! FreeSwitch and SipXecs and Second Generation IP PBX FreeSwitch - Trying on the Big Boy Pants Asterisk vs. FreeSWITCH (anders.com) FreeSWITCH, a Second-Generation Open-Source Communications Platform  

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