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Contents 1 Outline of Michael's FreeSWITCH Presentation, FOSUG, 3/21/2009 1.1 Brief introduction to telephony 1.2 OSS Telephony Stuff 1.3 Demonstration (I can run it on my MacBook Pro and/or most Linuxes are okay with FreeSwitch) 1.4 Q&A, tinkering, etc.

Outline of Michael's FreeSWITCH Presentation, FOSUG, 3/21/2009

Brief introduction to telephony

• Analog vs. digital
• What is a PBX
• What is VoIP
• What is a codec

OSS Telephony Stuff

• Quick review of open source telephony apps

• • Asterisk/CallWeaver, Bayonne, YATE, OpenSER/OpenSIPS/Kamailio

• FreeSWITCH
  • What is it?
    • Soft-switch vs. soft-PBX

• • Why MPL and not GPL
  • What it can do
    • soft-phone, PBX, enterprise-scale soft-switch, telco switch
    • pfSense FW has FS package with mini-gui
    • High-quality codecs
      • OSS: CELT, Speex
      • Free: Polycom Siren7, Siren14
      • Free-ish: Skype
      • Coming soon: Evil G.729, G.729a (and why they are evil)

• • • Future plans
      • 3rd party apps and "ecosystem" (like Asterisk)
      • ClueCon developers conference
      • Weekly documentation conf call
      • Rumor mill

Demonstration (I can run it on my MacBook Pro and/or most Linuxes are okay with FreeSwitch)

• Aastra and Snom phones (I will bring)
• Any softphone people bring (x-lite, Ekiga, etc. Headphone/Mic sets too!)
• PortAudio demo
• If available, HQ codec demo (need someone on other end w/HQ codec)
• "Screaming monkeys" demo

Q&A, tinkering, etc.