Leveraging Free and Open Source Software for Commercial VoIP Development (OS-01)
Tuesday - 10/10/06, 12:15-1:00pm
Applications are seldom built from the ground up. Instead they are assembled from piece parts. Historically these piece parts have been COTS — Commercial Off-The-Shelf software. Today more and more of the piece parts are available as either open source or free software. The presenter will describe the experience of using open source and free software components; identify benefits and the liabilities; discuss IPR management, and other issues.
Presented by:
Gordon Ledger Manager of Software Development Iperia
Extending OpenPBX Architecture for Salable Enterprise Media Gateways (OS-02)
Tuesday - 10/10/06, 1:15-2:00pm
It’s a whole new world in the Open Source telephony space. There are real trends that SMBs and enterprises are now beginning to follow such as the rising adoption of PC-based/open source PBX solutions. In addition, there exists a new breed of Open PBXs/Switches such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch, and Yate that are pushing the boundaries of Open Source telephony. This presentation will discuss the main trends behind the migration from TDM to IP in the enterprise, and how this impacts voice solutions; review the nature of open source PBX platforms — various hardware and software pieces; summarize the trends in open source evolution — the transition that’s occurring from hardware-based to software-based, and what’s behind it.
As enterprise IT managers move to take more control of their communications programs and move voice solutions into their IT networks, it becomes important for application development to deliver real value in a flexible and open manner. Just as open source development has been a catalyst for projects like Apache, which has become synonymous with Web services, it is now proving to be the driving force for the development of IP telephony applications resulting in PC-like economics for VoIP in the form of an IP PBX, user agent, call center platform and messaging and presence-based applications.
Jingle, a set of extensions to the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP a.k.a Jabber) for use in VoIP, video, and other peer-to-peer multimedia sessions, represents an open version of the protocols used in Google Talk. In this session, the presenter will describe how Jingle is being used by Jabber, Inc., Google, and others to extend presence (online/offline, available/busy, device/location, etc.) into voice communications that leverage existing investments, including those in SIP.
Presented by:
Peter Saint-Andre Executive Director Jabber Software Foundation
Open source can play a key part in migrating the traditional phone network to IP, while saving communications providers capital — enabling them to pass the cost savings onto their customers. Open source also provides a level of flexibility in creating IP-based solutions that proprietary systems can not. In this session, the presenter will discuss:
• How companies (from the enterprise to the SMB) can take advantage of open source based solutions to save money and increase efficiencies in their business.
• How developers and technology companies can use Asterisk in their VoIP solutions.
• The role Asterisk can play in migrating to VoIP by running hybrid solutions incorporating IP and traditional telephony.
• How carriers and service providers are leveraging open source to roll-out their VoIP solutions.
Presented by:
Kevin Fleming Director of Software Technologies Digium, Inc.
