Telecom firm turns to open source model for its VoIP platform
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| Companies are beginning to transition away from traditional phone lines
| towards voice over IP technology, but several price and support-related
| issues haven't made it as cost effective as it could be.
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| [...]
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| The Asterisk@Home trixbox Community Edition (CE) telephony application
| platform, an open source Fonality telephony platform, focused on offering a
| viable IP Private Branch eXchange (PBX) phone system.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Telecom_firm_turns_to_open_source_model_for_its_VoIP_platform/1209507579
FreeSWITCH, a Second-Generation Open-Source Communications Platform
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| While we're looking at Asterisk alternatives, we're going to take a tour of
| FreeSWITCH. Aside from the annoying capitalization, which is a contagious
| disease in the computer world, it's a first-class softswitch and telephony
| platform.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3743496
Yesterday:
Secure Calling Initiative Reaches Second Milestone
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| GNU Telephony intends to help both national governments and private
| corporations comply with their obligations to the general public by promoting
| widespread adoption of secure and intercept free voice and video
| communication services worldwide using free software.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102328/index.html
Fonality Launches Open Source Telephony Ecosystem
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| Following are comments from FACE partners about the new ecosystem...
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080428006312&newsLang=en
Related:
Linux dominating VoIP devices?
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| Trolltech says its development framework and software stack for mobile
| devices was selected by Skype as the preferred platform for Skype-certified
| VoIP (voice-over-IP) phones. Additionally, the Qtopia framework/stack has
| been used in about 40 VoIP devices, making it the "dominant Linux
| development platform for VoIP/WiFi devices," according to Trolltech.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9974606142.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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