Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Solution for FreeSWITCH
[ Optimised G.729A 'Howlet' for FreeSWITCH & Asterisk ] Howler Technologies are proud to announce today the launch of the first fully indemnified G.729A solution for FreeSWITCH. This is the first in a series of products dubbed 'Howlets' that add highly performant transcoding and signal processing modules to open-source telecoms platforms. The G.729A Howlet ships as a drop-in module for FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, and enables cost-effective transcoding of G.729 and G.729A calls to other codecs. It scales to more than 500 concurrent transcoded calls on a single quad core server, and is licensed on a per concurrent channel basis. You can choose from two licensing models - fixed server perpetual and annual floating, the latter allowing you to 'float' your licensed channels across multiple servers for ultimate flexibility. Our unique floating licenses means you enable G.729A across your infrastructure without the administrative overhead of managing per-server licenses, and at a fraction of the initial cost of fixed-server licenses. Howlets are available for purchase immediately, and start at just £3.99/channnel with all patent holder royalties taken care of. Download your free trial today ! http://www.howlertech.com/products/howlets/ -- Enjoy, The Howler Team < support@howlertech.com > Howler Technologies Ltd, 11 Charlotte Mews, London, W1T 4EQ tel: +44 207 099 7099 fax: +44 207 099 7098 http://www.howlertech.com/ Registered in England & Wales, Company No. 06285634
There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler. How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving something back"? -Ray
There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler. How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving something back"?
Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to get the thing working across the various platforms with the required licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do. Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition would be entirely unreasonable. --Dave -- David Knell, Director, 3C Limited T: +44 20 3298 2000 E: dave@3c.co.uk W: http://www.3c.co.uk
I have to agree with David here. A G729 codec benefits the project immensely as it allows Freeswitch users to use the most widespread commercial codec. Best regards, Vlasis Hatzistavrou Kinetix Tele.com Hellas Ltd. Monastiriou 9 & Enotikon 54627 Thessaloniki Greece Tel.: +302310556134 Fax: +302310556134 (ext. 0) GSM: +306977835653 e-mail: vhatz@kinetix.gr http://www.kinetixtele.com David Knell wrote:
There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler. How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving something back"?
Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to get the thing working across the various platforms with the required licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition would be entirely unreasonable.
--Dave
Hey David,
There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler. How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving something back"?
Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to get the thing working across the various platforms with the required licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition would be entirely unreasonable.
You're spot on on the somewhat extortionate up-front (and continuing royalty) fees, and there is substantial risk in us doing this which we hope will be mitigated by the rising interest in FreeSWITCH as a whole (a project which we've been huge evangelists of since the beginning). We hope that adding patent encumbered codecs like G.729 to FreeSWITCH will ultimately benefit the project and cause more people to be able to transition towards it from other platforms, building on the fantastic platform that Anthony and the rest of the gang have somehow managed to develop for free! Our initial feedback has been very promising, with a number of customers at least in the UK (including one major VoIP provider) that we've spoken to directly now seriously considering a migration to FreeSWITCH. We hope that the small per channel charge is not too onerous - we've tried to make it as cheap as possible by introducing the floating licenses (and including all support and maintenance upgrades free of charge), but there are very real costs here in royalties and development - how you guys do it mostly for free is beyond me! We have, of course, spoken to the FreeSWITCH team and offered to collaborate on this project (as they've also been working on this for a while) and we hope that we can join forces on it soon so that everyone benefits :) -- Regards, Jay Fenton, CTO <jay.fenton@howlertech.com> Howler Technologies Ltd, 11 Charlotte Mews, London, W1T 4EQ tel: +44 207 099 7095 fax: +44 207 099 7098 http://www.howlertech.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfenton Registered in England & Wales, Company No. 06285634
participants (5)
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David Knell
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Jay Fenton
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Raymond Chandler
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Vlasis Hatzistavrou (KTI)
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Will Boyce