[Bayonne-devel] Re: [OpenH323]Bayonne openh323 integration announced

[David Sugar]

We actually just demo'd this functionality yesterday in conjunction with a
gatekeeper as well as directly.  However, I am currently away in France,
and the new oh323 driver should appear in cvs soon, as we intend to
release it as part of the 1.3/1.9 release at LinuxWorld.  The scope of the
new (and any further or last minute driver changes ) release will also
depend in part on other additional work by Mark on multi-driver support,
and I do not know yet if that feature will be ready on time for LW.

Alain NAKACHE said:
> Since this announce I threw a glance at the project, especially in the
> driver directory and I didn't find any new functionnality.
>
> Can you give us further details about OH323 integration  ? (Bayonne
> server  version number, bayonne libs version number, ...)
>
> At 09:02 07/07/03 -0400, David Sugar wrote:
>>Later this week, as part of this year's Libre Software Meeting, being
>> held in Metz, France, I will demonstrate functional GNU Bayonne
>>integration with the OpenH323 stack.  This work was largely developed
>> by Mark Lipscombe over the past few months, and should become generally
>> available in preliminary form, along with many other new features, as
>> part of our next major GNU Bayonne release this August, during
>>LinuxWorld in San Francisco.
>>
>>GNU Bayonne is the script driven telephony application server of the
>> GNU project, and historically has enabled the creation of original
>> telephony application services that could run unmodified on both analog
>> and digital telephone lines using hardware from various CTI vendors
>> under GNU/Linux.  With the introduction of Openh323 support, it is now
>>possible to create a deploy both existing and new GNU Bayonne
>>applications in a pure IP telephony environment without requiring any
>> additional hardware.  One will also be able to create applications that
>> work identically in both traditional telephone environments and over
>> H.323 session for mixed environment deployments.
>>
>>Since GNU Bayonne can interconnect H.323 sessions as well as provide
>> interactive or automated voice response, one should be able to create
>> H.323 proxy services using it.  With Bayonne's soon to be introduced
>> web scripting, it will become easy to create switchboard type
>> applications that sit in the DMZ and allow both the placement of
>> outside calls through firewalls, and automated reception of inbound
>> call traffic which may then be directed to internal H.323 stations or
>> call agents such as for IP ACD call agent functionality.  One
>> application I would like for us to demonstrate this August at
>> LinuxWorld is the recently developed GNU/Bayonne "DAISY" talking book
>> reader, but operating over H.323.
>>
>>With the elimination of hardware requirements when used as a H.323
>> application server, it is worth noting that GNU Bayonne has already
>> been successfully ported to xBSD variants such as FreeBSD, as well as
>> to Macos/x, and in the past has been ported to Solaris.  It should now
>> also be possible to offer useful voice application services with GNU
>> Bayonne on virtualized GNU/Linux environments, such as offered in S/390
>> Linux.
>>
>>As noted, there are a number of additional areas of active GNU Bayonne
>> development, including automatic speech recognition. further PBX
>>functionality, web services integration, and externalized scripting.
>> Some of these things will be part of the August release, and some may
>> appear later this summer.  Further information about GNU Bayonne may be
>> found at the mailing list, by sending a request to
>>address@hidden, or by sending email to
>>address@hidden
>
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