Part 3 of 4 podcast with Daniel-Constantin Mierla (Core Developer at SIP Router Project, CEO at ASIPTO, Co-Founder and Core Developer at Kamailio (OpenSER) Looks Back on 2010’s the Best in Accomplishments and Uses of Kamailio:

Open source projects entail more than writing code, Daniel-Constantin shared in this part of the podcast. Learning to collaborate with many people is integral to success; Kamailio is an example.

The product Kamailio is free to try and use. The business model is in the value added services that businesses and consumers are looking for.

Daniel enjoys reviewing the year before to see how things can be improved. The year 2010 was one of the best in the last ten years, he says. The way we communicate has changed. As late as three to five years ago, people were only thinking about voice and maybe video, but today everyone wants instant messaging and presence, so they can publish information about their location.

SIP servers such as Kamailio are busier than ever because of this fuller and richer communications experience being provided. They have moved from a synchronous information model to an asynchronous model which increases the quality of the performance. In addition, they are ready to handle new specifications delivered by standardization bodies.

They are using an XCAP server which no other open source telephony platform currently includes this. Among other advantages, it can reuse of SIP router transport layer – XCAP documents can be sent via SIP (UDP, TCP, TLS and SCTP) and via HTTP (TCP or TLS (HTTPS)). For HTTP/S, you neet to load XHTTP module to handle HTTP/S requests.

In 2010, many academic research bodies studied and used Kamailio such as the Illinois Institute of Technology http://www.iit.edu. The entire Portuguese Educational Network practically replaced their traditional telephony system with Kamailio and Asterisk (300 pairs). The deployment process of this was shared in a presentation during Astricon 2010 by Ruben Sousa.

Also Sipwise launched an open source version of their telephony appliance with a Kamailio routing engine.

Kamailio had a release in October 2010 with 16 major enhancements with new features, for example, audio conferencing to see who is speaking and the audio level of the voice.

Hear parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the podcast with Daniel-Constantin Mierla being interviewed by Suzanne Bowen of Techistan and DIDX.

Visit http://www.asipto.com, http://www.sipwise.com, http://www.kamailio.org and also the website of the wholesale DID platform that sponsors this podcast channel http://www.didx.net. Find an article detailing more on http://www.techistan.com online magazine.

Asterconference in May 2010 was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If readers could not be there, Techistan shares the photo gallery of presentations, inventor, speakers, relaxing, brainstorming, development clans and talks, and more … where East and West met for just a few days in May 2010.

David Duffet was extremely entertaining and informative at AsterConference with the same inside out view that gives the listener that “ah ha, I’ve got it” epiphany about open source telephony related ideas like “No Rules Telephony.”

Astricon is scheduled October 26-28, 2010 in National Harbor Maryland! Sign up at http://www.astricon.net/.

Thank the sponsors and be one!

Premier Sponsor: Digium

Platinum Sponsor: NEXTUSA

Gold Sponsor: AudioCodes, Panasonic

Sponsors: Aastra, AG Projects, Aksys, Allo, Asteria, Broadvox, Codedial, Freeside, Intuit, Lumenvox, OpenVox, Orecx, Presence, Sangoma, Snom, Synway & Xorcom

Media Sponsors: Internet Telephony, TMCnet

Who will be at Astricon?

• Programmers
• Open Source Coders
• Enterprise IT
• Software Developers
• PBX Developers
• Call Center and CRM Developers
• System Integrators of Open Source Technology
• Entrepreneurs o Web 2.0 Integrators

Slideshow from AsterConference 2010 in Malaysia.

Tim May is the CEO of Etone Connect. He’s a telephony historian, or at least, that is how many at Astricon 2008 defined him. The Techistan team met him in the exhibit area delivering sermons on the beginning of Internet Telephony. He was surrounded by crowds, curious to know more. He became interested in Internet telephony in the early 90s (same as many, such as our company vice president, who used it to help me teach English to middle schoolers). In 1997, EtoneConnect provided a VoIP calling card for retailers. They created a voiceover at 2 cents/minute and their first order was over $1 million.

EtoneConnect is a SIP trunking provider and wholesale telephony company now. Tim Mays remembers going to all the free Cisco training classes many years back and notes how much has changed. EtoneConnect asks the question: Why build and maintain a separate network for phones and data? Voice and data integration are one of EtoneConnect’s specialties. Their experts have participated in voice over IP and NT based telephone systems since 1996, virtually the beginning. The network they build is capable of carrying data traffic and also voice traffic. They offer their expertise and experience at affordable, competitive pricing.

Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh.
In a mere four days, developers and code gurus from around the world who have discovered the unlimited potential and versatility of Asterisk — the fastest-growing telephony platform in the world today — will gather in beautiful Glendale, Arizona October 13-15 for a concentrated three days of amazing talks, demonstrations, and networking about this product which is a phenom in the world of telecommunications, and which has set the standard for open-source VoIP telephony. Little did I realise — when I was contacted in 2002 to voice the initial set of prompts for Asterisk — that it would take the world by storm in quite the way it did. I seriously thought it was a one-off job, voicing some (sometimes) offbeat prompts for some very hyperactive guys in Alabama. When I was invited to the first Astricon in Atlanta in 2004, I gave myself a pep talk beforehand,

reminding myself to overcome my shyness and introduce myself to everyone — little expecting to be mobbed. Apparently, the hundreds of attendees there not only were eager to talk to one of only five women there — they were all looking forward to meeting “The Voice of Asterisk” — the living person behind the prompts they had been working with and deploying for years. Even after attending Astricon every year since then, (and with me being now known to most of the community) — it still gives me such a thrill to meet clients face-to-face and hopefully personify the sound of Asterisk to them.

With attendees arriving from 35 countires, this year’s Astricon promises to be a bigger, better and more diverse Geekosystem than ever!

I’ll be blogging from Astricon next week, so stay tuned!

PS: That’s me and the “Father of Asterisk” — and one of my favorite people in the world — Mark Spencer, taken at Astricon 2008. That’s the first incarnation of the now famous “Asterisk Dress” — this year, I’ll be unveiling a new version, which puts the old one to shame….
Related websites:
www.theivrvoice.com
www.theasteriskvoice.com
voicegal.wordpress.com
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh.

But Allison is more than the Voice of Asterisk. She’s also a heated yoga enthusiast and great story teller. Listen to her anecdotes of voiceovers for a prison system, collection agency and one request for a special 1800 service.

We met at Astricon 2008 in Glendale where DIDXchange was the Asterisk Developer Area Room Sponsor. Right after my lightning talk on IAX2 vs. SIP, she was to talk with me and ask me questions. (Astricon is Oct. 13-15, 2009 this year.)

She’s known as the “whipped cream” of Asterisk, but there’s no fluff in how she is dealing with the recession. Companies are not cutting costs in the area of telephone prompts, and Allison Smith is one of the most well-known, talented persons in voiceovers. She believes in good customer service which includes fast turn around, follow-up and checking in with each customer at least two times per year.

To do business with and learn from Allison visit http://www.theivrvoice.com/. You can also register at http://www.theasteriskvoice.com for free downloads of voice! She’ll be at ITEXPO West Sept 1-3, 2009 and you can also visit with one of her customers at SpeechTek at the Cepstral booth August 24-25, 2009 in New York.