FreeSWITCH in a University Environment
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets? We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise). We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already. Any pointers to other Universities would be great. Cheers, Gabe
Someone once told me, "Unless it saves me money, makes me money, or makes me look good--I don't want to hear about it." The solution you're proposing does two of the three! I found an article on Sam Houston State University using F/OSS VoIP. So that might be a lead. 'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.' Quarry Worker's Creed On 1/10/2012 12:48 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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Would *actual businesses* deciding to go with FS not be good enough to show it's worth? -Avi On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Timothy Bolton <ifoundthetao@gmail.com>wrote:
Someone once told me, "Unless it saves me money, makes me money, or makes me look good--I don't want to hear about it."
The solution you're proposing does two of the three!
I found an article on Sam Houston State University using F/OSS VoIP. So that might be a lead.
'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.' Quarry Worker's Creed
On 1/10/2012 12:48 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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I agree with Avi, actual businesses are using FS with great results. If you aren't too sure about commercial support or not having the personell to maintain FS, might I suggest CudaTel? -bdfoster On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Avi Marcus <avi@avimarcus.net> wrote:
Would *actual businesses* deciding to go with FS not be good enough to show it's worth? -Avi
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Timothy Bolton <ifoundthetao@gmail.com>wrote:
Someone once told me, "Unless it saves me money, makes me money, or makes me look good--I don't want to hear about it."
The solution you're proposing does two of the three!
I found an article on Sam Houston State University using F/OSS VoIP. So that might be a lead.
'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.' Quarry Worker's Creed
On 1/10/2012 12:48 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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That university has switched back to Cisco. On Jan 10, 2012, at 13:59, Timothy Bolton <ifoundthetao@gmail.com> wrote:
Someone once told me, "Unless it saves me money, makes me money, or makes me look good--I don't want to hear about it."
The solution you're proposing does two of the three!
I found an article on Sam Houston State University using F/OSS VoIP. So that might be a lead.
'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.' Quarry Worker's Creed
On 1/10/2012 12:48 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, <cmrienzo@gmail.com> wrote:
That university has switched back to Cisco.
Yeah, they used Asterisk before FreeSWITCH was available and mature. The problem they ran into with Asterisk at SHSU was they needed people full time to baby sit their * servers and make ridiculous patches all day. They ended up spending a lot of money on people. With Cisco, they get to spend all that money on equipment, licensing, etc.
I don't know of any large campuses using FreeSWITCH. Depending on the needs of the campus the CudaTel might work. Bare FreeSWITCH servers w/ OpenSIPS would also be an interesting solution but you'll still need to have someone be a "vendor" for support, etc. FSS will do support contracts on the FreeSWITCH stuff but you still need someone for the OpenSIPS side. I know Bogdan (from OpenSIPS) does that, as does Flavio Goncalves (OpenSIPS trainer, author). It sounds to me like you could save a bundle with OSS but it will take a coordinated effort and you must definitely get experts to spec out the install before hand. -MC
On Jan 10, 2012 1:32 PM, "Michael Collins" <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, <cmrienzo@gmail.com> wrote:
That university has switched back to Cisco.
Yeah, they used Asterisk before FreeSWITCH was available and mature. The
problem they ran into with Asterisk at SHSU was they needed people full time to baby sit their * servers and make ridiculous patches all day. ^^^^ that is exactly the issue here either : when somebody asks a question on the board, the answer is always: have you upgraded to header version? Or do not use it. Enterprise can't afford patch& upgrade daily. You guys need to take a strategy to release and support. For instance, two release: stable release will has a life span 3 years and be supported. Test release with latest features. They ended up spending a lot of money on people. With Cisco, they get to spend all that money on equipment, licensing, etc.
I don't know of any large campuses using FreeSWITCH. Depending on the
needs of the campus the CudaTel might work. Bare FreeSWITCH servers w/ OpenSIPS would also be an interesting solution but you'll still need to have someone be a "vendor" for support, etc. FSS will do support contracts on the FreeSWITCH stuff but you still need someone for the OpenSIPS side. I know Bogdan (from OpenSIPS) does that, as does Flavio Goncalves (OpenSIPS trainer, author).
It sounds to me like you could save a bundle with OSS but it will take a
coordinated effort and you must definitely get experts to spec out the install before hand.
-MC
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Hi all, About a strategy to release and support. I work for a integrator. We have in our portafolio two big brand: Alcatel and Genesys. They give new minor releases and hotfixes almost every week in their products. Mayor releases are available in one year, sometimes more. About minor releases and hot-fixes, it depend on our local scenario. Not all our customer has issues than involves/require apply hot-fixes each week. We use this approach: 1. If there is an issue, we look in there are an aplicable hotfix. If not, we try to find a workaround or get a estimated date for a hotfix. 2. Each year we offer to our customer access to last binaries to upgrade their platform to the latest release Also, you have to "design" an integral political procedure for upgrades, hot-fixes and roll-back. Because, FS depend on OS, and other components like mediagateway, routers, etc. I have seen in our customer, when they apply a patch in the OS or their pbx, could affect other systems. On 1/10/2012 11:46 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Enterprise can't afford patch& upgrade daily. You guys need to take a strategy to release and support. For instance, two release: stable release will has a life span 3 years and be supported. Test release with latest features.
We've got some things in the works. Stay tuned! -MC
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Some release policy along the lines of Ubuntu LTS will be great! Our client has been running FS for more than 2 years now and they do not have a "stay with the latest git" policy. That would be a pain anyway. They are currently doing around 80 E1 lines at 10 different locations. @MC, eagerly awaited :) regards, Anita On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Saugort Dario Garcia Tovar < dgarcia@anew.com.ve> wrote:
Hi all,
About a strategy to release and support.
I work for a integrator. We have in our portafolio two big brand: Alcatel and Genesys. They give new minor releases and hotfixes almost every week in their products. Mayor releases are available in one year, sometimes more.
About minor releases and hot-fixes, it depend on our local scenario. Not all our customer has issues than involves/require apply hot-fixes each week. We use this approach: 1. If there is an issue, we look in there are an aplicable hotfix. If not, we try to find a workaround or get a estimated date for a hotfix. 2. Each year we offer to our customer access to last binaries to upgrade their platform to the latest release
Also, you have to "design" an integral political procedure for upgrades, hot-fixes and roll-back. Because, FS depend on OS, and other components like mediagateway, routers, etc. I have seen in our customer, when they apply a patch in the OS or their pbx, could affect other systems.
On 1/10/2012 11:46 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Enterprise can't afford patch& upgrade daily. You guys need to take a
strategy to release and support. For instance, two release: stable release will has a life span 3 years and be supported. Test release with latest features.
We've got some things in the works. Stay tuned! -MC
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I started to reply to this last night... There is not ³stay with the latest git policy² ... It has long been stated you need to test for your actual deployment make sure it works for you then deploy. On the ³are you running the latest git?² thing. The FreeSWITCH Dev Team is pretty small and pretty much everyone on the dev team has another day job¹. so them asking can you duplicate the issue on the latest git is a way to reduce the amount of bug finding by asking the reporter to help the dev team. Even better is if you can help identify a previous working version in git and the commit at which it stopped working that¹s even better (see git bisect for helping out on this) L On 1/11/12 8:23 AM, "Anita Hall" <anita.hall@simmortel.com> wrote:
Some release policy along the lines of Ubuntu LTS will be great!
Our client has been running FS for more than 2 years now and they do not have a "stay with the latest git" policy. That would be a pain anyway. They are currently doing around 80 E1 lines at 10 different locations.
@MC, eagerly awaited :)
regards, Anita
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Saugort Dario Garcia Tovar <dgarcia@anew.com.ve> wrote:
Hi all,
About a strategy to release and support.
I work for a integrator. We have in our portafolio two big brand: Alcatel and Genesys. They give new minor releases and hotfixes almost every week in their products. Mayor releases are available in one year, sometimes more.
About minor releases and hot-fixes, it depend on our local scenario. Not all our customer has issues than involves/require apply hot-fixes each week. We use this approach: 1. If there is an issue, we look in there are an aplicable hotfix. If not, we try to find a workaround or get a estimated date for a hotfix. 2. Each year we offer to our customer access to last binaries to upgrade their platform to the latest release
Also, you have to "design" an integral political procedure for upgrades, hot-fixes and roll-back. Because, FS depend on OS, and other components like mediagateway, routers, etc. I have seen in our customer, when they apply a patch in the OS or their pbx, could affect other systems.
On 1/10/2012 11:46 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Enterprise can't afford patch& upgrade daily. You guys need to take a strategy to release and support. For instance, two release: stable release will has a life span 3 years and be supported. Test release with latest features.
We've got some things in the works. Stay tuned! -MC
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We have a Trixbox (Asterisk) server in the "Universidad Autonoma del Caribe" in Barranquilla, Colombia with extensions in: Miami, Usa; Cartagena; Santa Marta; Bogotá. We have external PSTN access (2 E1) in all the locations with 200 extensions and follow me to the cellular (one E1). The server have 3 years on production. Best Regards, Ricardo Saavedra
That university has switched back to Cisco.
On Jan 10, 2012, at 13:59, Timothy Bolton <ifoundthetao@gmail.com> wrote:
Someone once told me, "Unless it saves me money, makes me money, or makes me look good--I don't want to hear about it."
The solution you're proposing does two of the three!
I found an article on Sam Houston State University using F/OSS VoIP. So that might be a lead.
'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.' Quarry Worker's Creed
On 1/10/2012 12:48 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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Hello Gabriel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel). We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users. We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings. If you need more information don't hesitate to ask. Regards, __Yehavi: 2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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Yahavi, This is great to hear about. Have you buy any chance written a white paper on your installation? K On 1/11/12 11:28 PM, "Yehavi Bourvine" <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Gabriel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel). We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users. We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings. If you need more information don't hesitate to ask. Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
No, sorry - Hadn't the time yet to write something... __Yehavi: 2012/1/12 Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org>
Yahavi, This is great to hear about. Have you buy any chance written a white paper on your installation?
K
On 1/11/12 11:28 PM, "Yehavi Bourvine" <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
------------------------------ _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
Which version of freeswitch do you use? 2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest GIT once every 2-4 weeks). __Yehavi: 2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu@gmail.com>
Which version of freeswitch do you use?
2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
Can you give bit more details on scope, e.g. how many extensions / users you need with what features etc. etc. You can contact me off list (shaheryarkh at gmail.com) if you don't want to post these details to whole mailing list. Thank you. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com
wrote:
I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest GIT once every 2-4 weeks).
__Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu@gmail.com>
Which version of freeswitch do you use?
2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE: http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
-- Muhammad Shahzad ----------------------------------- CISCO Rich Media Communication Specialist (CRMCS) CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Cell: +92 334 422 40 88 MSN: shari_786pk@hotmail.com Email: shaheryarkh@googlemail.com
Hello Muhammad, We tried to move to FreeSWITCH a representative sample of our users. Thus, it includes a mix of: - Users with analog phone who just want a CallerID (in our current exchange it is not available). We connect them using a 24 ports ATA (MP124 from Audiocodes; had others, junked them...). - Secretaries who need extra functionality: BLF, SLA, Intercoms and multi-lines phones. The connection to the university's main exchange and to an external supplier is done via SIP<->PRI gateway from AudioCodes (who did some software changes upon my request to have more compatibility with FreeSWITCH). In addition we wrote some WEB interface so users can manage issues related to the phone: - List, hear and delete voicemail messages. - Change some characteristics, like whether to have call waiting, whether to send copy of voicemail to Email, etc. - Manage speed dials (people like it...). - Manage the phone book of Polycom and Audiocodes phones. - System managers can do slightly more. - We are now building a simple call center with WEB interface to follow its usage. All our users' database is on MySQL. We have only around 200 extensions as we try to keep the user's old number and have a "follow me" from the old exchnage to the new one. This "Follow me" is somewhat problematic, and we have to re-enable it manually for some extensions from time to time. Regards, __Yehavi: 2012/1/12 Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh@googlemail.com>
Can you give bit more details on scope, e.g. how many extensions / users you need with what features etc. etc.
You can contact me off list (shaheryarkh at gmail.com) if you don't want to post these details to whole mailing list.
Thank you.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Yehavi Bourvine < yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest GIT once every 2-4 weeks).
__Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu@gmail.com>
Which version of freeswitch do you use?
2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE: http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE: http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
-- Muhammad Shahzad ----------------------------------- CISCO Rich Media Communication Specialist (CRMCS) CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Cell: +92 334 422 40 88 MSN: shari_786pk@hotmail.com Email: shaheryarkh@googlemail.com
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
Hey, you should really look into Whistle ! I have a feeling that almost 90%+ of your requirements will be served by that. Regards, Sammy On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello Muhammad,
We tried to move to FreeSWITCH a representative sample of our users. Thus, it includes a mix of:
- Users with analog phone who just want a CallerID (in our current exchange it is not available). We connect them using a 24 ports ATA (MP124 from Audiocodes; had others, junked them...). - Secretaries who need extra functionality: BLF, SLA, Intercoms and multi-lines phones.
The connection to the university's main exchange and to an external supplier is done via SIP<->PRI gateway from AudioCodes (who did some software changes upon my request to have more compatibility with FreeSWITCH).
In addition we wrote some WEB interface so users can manage issues related to the phone:
- List, hear and delete voicemail messages. - Change some characteristics, like whether to have call waiting, whether to send copy of voicemail to Email, etc. - Manage speed dials (people like it...). - Manage the phone book of Polycom and Audiocodes phones. - System managers can do slightly more. - We are now building a simple call center with WEB interface to follow its usage.
All our users' database is on MySQL.
We have only around 200 extensions as we try to keep the user's old number and have a "follow me" from the old exchnage to the new one. This "Follow me" is somewhat problematic, and we have to re-enable it manually for some extensions from time to time.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh@googlemail.com>
Can you give bit more details on scope, e.g. how many extensions / users you need with what features etc. etc.
You can contact me off list (shaheryarkh at gmail.com) if you don't want to post these details to whole mailing list.
Thank you.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Yehavi Bourvine < yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest GIT once every 2-4 weeks).
__Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu@gmail.com>
Which version of freeswitch do you use?
2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE: http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE: http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
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dear Yehavi, I heavily advise you making a cluster including a load balancer at the front of the server. All configurations, and dialplan futures would be through SQL, or write an python application which you embed in the dialplan that does it for you. Freeswitch, seems to be very flexible what I saw. Tamer Am 12.01.2012 12:19, schrieb Yehavi Bourvine:
Hello Muhammad,
We tried to move to FreeSWITCH a representative sample of our users. Thus, it includes a mix of:
* Users with analog phone who just want a CallerID (in our current exchange it is not available). We connect them using a 24 ports ATA (MP124 from Audiocodes; had others, junked them...). * Secretaries who need extra functionality: BLF, SLA, Intercoms and multi-lines phones.
The connection to the university's main exchange and to an external supplier is done via SIP<->PRI gateway from AudioCodes (who did some software changes upon my request to have more compatibility with FreeSWITCH).
In addition we wrote some WEB interface so users can manage issues related to the phone:
* List, hear and delete voicemail messages. * Change some characteristics, like whether to have call waiting, whether to send copy of voicemail to Email, etc. * Manage speed dials (people like it...). * Manage the phone book of Polycom and Audiocodes phones. * System managers can do slightly more. * We are now building a simple call center with WEB interface to follow its usage.
All our users' database is on MySQL.
We have only around 200 extensions as we try to keep the user's old number and have a "follow me" from the old exchnage to the new one. This "Follow me" is somewhat problematic, and we have to re-enable it manually for some extensions from time to time.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh@googlemail.com <mailto:shaheryarkh@googlemail.com>>
Can you give bit more details on scope, e.g. how many extensions / users you need with what features etc. etc.
You can contact me off list (shaheryarkh at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>) if you don't want to post these details to whole mailing list.
Thank you.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com <mailto:yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>> wrote:
I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest GIT once every 2-4 weeks).
__Yehavi:
2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu@gmail.com <mailto:anton.jugatsu@gmail.com>>
Which version of freeswitch do you use?
2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com <mailto:yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>>
Hello Gabriel,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
Regards, __Yehavi:
2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@ieee.org <mailto:gkuri@ieee.org>>
Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone else has done it already.
Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
Cheers, Gabe
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_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org <mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
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_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org <mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
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Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Anita Hall
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Anton Kvashenkin
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Avi Marcus
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Brian Foster
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cmrienzo＠gmail.com
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Gabriel Kuri
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Ken Rice
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Michael Collins
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Muhammad Shahzad
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rsaavedra＠ecogizmos.com
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Sammy Govind
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Saugort Dario Garcia Tovar
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Tamer Higazi
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Timothy Bolton
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Yehavi Bourvine