Presentation
From FOSUG
Contents |
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
- What is it?
- 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
- Future plans
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