Ottawa – Wed Sept 3rd Webinar – Jay Phillips / Adhearsion: Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Asterisk

Asterisk and Ruby developers please join us at 6:30 pm Wednesday September 3rd for a presentation from Jay Phillips, author of Adhearsion and an avid Ruby, web, and telephony developer. Phillips has spoken at over a dozen conferences and meetups about his Adhearsion software and has written for publications such as Asterisk:
The Future of Telephony and Linux Journal magazine.

Wednesday September 3rd .. 6:30 pm

Adhearsion is an open-source, unconventional framework that ties technologies together neatly. Of these, Adhearsion is most noted as being "adhesion you can hear" for integrating VoIP by building atop the fantastic Asterisk PBX software by Digium. Adhearsion was designed to "understand" the many elements of the VoIP picture and both improve them individually and tie them together in one comprehensive solution.

With Adhearsion many tasks in VoIP engineering are improved, such as

* Writing call-processing instructions
* Trading VoIP functionality
* Integrating with on-phone XML-based microbrowsers
* Collaborating with technology beyond VoIP
* Database integration for DB-driven VoIP apps
* Sophisticated relationships with Asterisk's internals
* Opening up your PBX to RPC distributed computing
* ...and so forth.

Webinar Information:

http://present.carleton.ca/client/BigBlueButton.html
Name: <your name>
Conference: 85002
Password: viewpass

Dial in number: 613.520.7610, or 1.866.520.2505 (toll-free) Access code: 85002

New release of Ejabberd 2.0.2

We've installed it, have you? Working great too. Gotta love built in proxy65 and pep.

Hello,

Following the release of ejabberd 2.0.2-beta1 a few weeks earlier, the final 2.0.2 has been released.

Release notes and links to binary installers and source code can be found on this page:
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/article/ejabberd_202/

Jérôme Sautret.

Hack MagicJack to work with your Asterisk PBX Installation, 20$ Calls for a year!

Recently there's been a bit of a conversation about hacking the MagicJack VOIP boxes to enable it to work with Asterisk. Like some of the other list users, we weren't aware of this, but this was posted as a followup. Probably old for most of you, but some may find it useful for your Magic Jack.

As of 5-31-08 to obtain your sip credentials you will need to dump your memory while magicjack.exe is running in order to view the decrypted password.
All other information can be had with any packet capture program.

Original, and All credit goes here: http://revolution.hackthisbox.com/magicjack/readme

Replace EXXXXXXXXXX01 with your MJ number. Include E and 01.
Replace the proxy proxy1.Atlanta.talk4free.com:5070 with the proxy your MJ registers to and change host=67.90.138.70 to host=YourProxyIPHere.
Replace XXXXXpasswordXXXXX with your password. Currently a 20 character string consisting of numbers and letters. Mine is all uppercase.

~~~~~sip.conf~~~~~

register => EXXXXXXXXXX01:XXXpasswordXXXX@proxy1.Atlanta.talk4free.com:5070

[magicjack]
context=incoming
username=EXXXXXXXXXX01
type=friend
secret=XXXXXpasswordXXXXX
port=5070
nat=yes
insecure=very
host=67.90.138.70
fromuser=EXXXXXXXXXX01
dtmfmode=inband
qualify=2000

~~~~~sip.conf~~~~~

~~~~~extensions.conf~~~~~

[incoming]
exten => YourMJNumber,1,Answer
exten => YourMJNumber,2,Dial(sip/sipura,30,r) ;dial someone...such as an ATA

[MagicJackOutgoing]
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@magicjack,30,r)
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,congestion()
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,102,busy()
exten => i,1,Hangup
exten => t,1,Hangup
exten => h,1,Hangup

[sip]
include => MagicJackOutgoing

~~~~~extensions.conf~~~~~

VOIP has been legalized in India after a long, long battle.

Information note to the Press (Press Release No.70/2008)

TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA

For Immediate release.

Tel. No : 011-23217914
Fax.No : 011-23211998
E-mail: skgupta@trai.gov.in or
guptask61@gmail.com
Website: www.trai.gov.in

Restrictions on Internet telephony removed by TRAI’s recommendations

New Delhi, 18th August, 2008 - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today issued recommendations on “Issues Related to Internet Telephony”.

The rapid technological developments and better quality of voice communications are shaping the future of telecom. The enormous increase in data traffic in international scenario, increasing acceptability of IP networks, adoptability of NGN by many countries, and global liberal regulatory regime for Internet telephony require a fresh review of existing licensing conditions in India.

The present licensing framework has envisaged different type of access service providers (UASL, BSOs, CMSPs), National Long Distance service providers (NLDs) International Long Distance service providers (ILDs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). While access service providers are permitted to provide various services and applications to their subscribers under Universal Access Services License (UASL), the role of other licensees like NLD and ILD is limited to provide long distance services and Internet service providers are permitted to provide access to Internet. It was expected that access service providers will provide highly popular services like Internet Telephony and boost broadband penetration but it has not come on the ground. As such our subscribers are denied advanced value added services in contrast to global scenario where such Internet based services are popular. ISPs are not permitted to provide unrestricted Internet Telephony though they have IP based Infrastructure. Such regulatory restrictions discourage technological advancements and result is grey market activities to provide these services to common masses.

The present regulatory framework denies fruits of technological advancements to reach to common masses. Level playing field issues were being advocated against permitting these services under various licenses. Globally telecommunications are being shaped by steep growth of broadband and wireless subscribers. The regulatory environment should be dynamic, enabling, efficient and encourage competition. Hence regulatory framework for Internet telephony has to be considered in view of convergence and other similar developments taking place across the globe.

The Authority suo-motu had initiated a consultation process on 12th May, 2008 titled “Issues Related to Internet Telephony”. The Authority has considered regulatory framework which is technologically neutral, enables developments, innovations and growth of the telecom sector for benefit of common masses while ensuring that business models of access telecom service providers are not adversely impacted. The end-users in country must be delivered the innovative and cost effective services. Due importance have been given to level playing filed among various service providers, Interconnection mechanism, Interconnect usage charges (IUC), Numbering, Lawful interception, Emergency number dialing, Interoperability, Quality of Service etc. Overall licensing framework has been protected while permitting unrestricted Internet telephony to ISPs.

The salient features of the recommendations are given below:

* ISPs have been permitted to provide unrestricted Internet telephony (Termination of Internet telephony calls on PSTN/PLMN and vice-versa).
* National Long Distance (NLD) operators shall be permitted to connect to ISPs through public Internet (Internet cloud) for unrestricted Internet telephony.
* ISPs and NLD shall have mutual agreement for unrestricted Internet telephony.
* NLD shall make suitable commercial and technical arrangements with access providers (PSTN/PLMN) for unrestricted Internet telephony.
* No change in existing IUC regime.
* TEC shall identify distinct number resources for Internet Telephony subscribers.
* Telephone numbers from identified blocks shall be allocated to ISPs, UASPs, BSOs & CMSPs for Internet telephony.
* Emergency number dialing is not mandated to ISPs.
* All ISPs interested to provide unrestricted Internet telephony shall install Lawful Interception equipment.
* Quality of service (QoS) for unrestricted telephony has not been mandated.

These recommendations are a step forward towards developing supportive regulatory environment, encouraging technological advancements, enabling convergence, making unrestricted Internet telephony available and boosting of broadband penetration. These enabling recommendations will put Indian telecom sector in tune with global trends. The grey market tendencies shall be curtailed. It is envisaged that the customers will ultimately benefit from cost effective and innovative Internet Telephony service. The business model of ISPs will improve without impacting access providers due to increase in the telephony call volumes.

Detailed recommendations are available on TRAI’s website www.trai.gov.in.

Contact details in case of any clarification:
Shri S.K. Gupta, Advisor (CN), TRAI
Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan,
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, New Delhi-110 002.
Tel No.011-23217914 Fax No.011-23211998
e-mail : guptask61@gmail.com or skgupta@trai.gov.in
Authorized to issue:
(S.K. Gupta)

Link to original press release: http://www.trai.gov.in/trai/upload/PressReleases/594/pr18aug08no70.pdf

asterisk linkedin group

asterisk linkedin group

I have created an asterisk linkedin group for anyone interested.

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/45252/66270A773F53
Thank You,
Steven BerkHolz
- MCSA - MCSE -
Manager of Information Systems
HIROTEC AMERICA

Free, North American Echo Testing for Asterisk Made Easy

Dear friends,

libpri versions 1.2.8 and 1.4.7, and libss7 version 1.0.1 released

The Asterisk development team has released new versions of three libraries used with Asterisk. They are:

libpri-1.2.8:
This release contains a number of bugfixes that had been unreleased for months, along with clarification of the licensing of the source code.
The change log is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/libpri/ChangeLog-1.2.8

libpri-1.4.7:
This release contains primarily only clarification of the licensing of the source code and some minor build system fixes. There is no need for users of version 1.4.6 to upgrade.
The change log is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/libpri/ChangeLog-1.4.7

libss7-1.0.1:
This release contains a number of bugfixes, along with clarification of the licensing of the source code.
The change log is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/libss7/ChangeLog-1.0.1

Thanks for using Asterisk!

--
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)

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