[Freeswitch-dev] Announcing the OpenZAP.hps project

[Hans Petter Selasky]

Hi,

During the recent week I have been talking to the people at FreeSwitch.org and 
we have agreed to build up a new full featured telephony stack by merging 
ISDN4BSD and OpenZAP. I have called the new branch OpenZAP.hps in my SVN 
repo.

As a consequence of this I have therefore decided that the ISDN part of my 
ISDN4BSD project will only receive bug-fixes from today and on, and will be 
considered a stable branch.

Some words about what OpenZAP.hps will bring. The fundamental part of the new 
telephony stack is the node concept. A node is a part that can 
receive "mbufs" using FreeBSD terms. There will be created different node 
types like echo-cancel, format conversion, tone detection, DSS1 protocol, 
CAPI2.0, ... Nodes are addressed by a 32-bit value. Everything will be built 
around the node concept. This gives us an important advantage that nodes can 
be placed in userland, kernel or even at a remote host. In other words the 
load can be distributed easily.

Multithreading. Unlike many other telephony implementations, there will not be 
one thread for every B-channel or call present. Instead there will be one 
thread for each CPU and possibly one configuration thread running at a lower 
priority.

Compatibility. The new stuff will be backwards compatible with CAPI2.0 and 
possibly also the FreeSwitch API, which means you will still be able to use 
it with Asterisk and Callweaver through "chan_capi", and FreeSwitch 
through "libopenzap".

Planning. I suspect that OpenZAP.hps will be ready for testing before 
Christmas of 2008.

Financial support. Feel free to support the project economically. If you are 
interested in working for the project, and have the right experience, there 
is a chance that something can be arranged so that you will get some money in 
return. Currently I cannot offer any full-time positions.

--HPS

References:

ISDN4BSD repo:
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svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn checkout 
svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b/trunk/i4b

OpenZAP.hps repo:
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svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn checkout 
svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b/trunk/openzap.hps