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Elastix workshop in Toronto; Wed Nov 26th, 2008

This Wednesday, November 26th, the Toronto Asterisk Users Group invites all in the area to join us for a telephony workshop and talk sponsored by Sangoma Inc.[1]

Jose Landivar, co-founder of PaloSanto Solutions[2], creators of Elastix, will be running a "getting started" workshop on Elastix, followed by a talk discussing how it differs from other Asterisk-based distributions, and a road map of the project's future.

Elastix[3] is an open source asterisk-based linux telephony appliance that integrates tools such as OpenFire IM Server, SugarCRM, mail services, and billing software into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

When:
Wednesday November 26th, 2008
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: WORKSHOP - Getting Started with Elastix (reg. req.)
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: TALK - Integrated Communications with Elastix

Where:
Committee Room 3
North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square)
5100 Yonge St.,
North York, ON
Map link: http://xrl.us/hqbw

Registration is requested for the workshop, sign up at: http://taug.ca/node/174 No registration is required for the talk: http://taug.ca/node/175

Check back at http://taug.ca for event updates.

Cheers,
Simon P. Ditner
TAUG.ca Talk Coordinator

[1] http://www.sangoma.com
[2] http://www.palosanto.com
[3] http://www.elastix.org

Digium SVN Server down for maintenance. Will be back up later today.

Russell posted this to the list today..

Greetings,

We recently moved our public subversion mirror to a new server. It is currently down for maintenance while we resolve some unforeseen problems. It should be back up by the end of the day.

I apologize for the inconvenience,

--
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.

Russian Company now offers to Flood your Phone along with regularly offered DDoS services. Neat!

Now, this is interesting.

Today on Sans there was a post about an Ad for DDoS services. Nothing really special about this right? Wrong. Along with the regular attacks that DDoS's bring to networks today, this Russian outfit is now offering the ability to flood your phones too. Imagine if you run a business that relies on phone calls like a call center or some such thing, and these guys DDoS your shit and no calls can get through in or out, that would suck wouldn't it? Well, these guys can do it for a fee. This is the first we've seen of this service being offered, especially as brazen as this one is - with a banner ad and all.

 

The messages appear in typical banner ad format, and rotate through, showing various phrases including:

"Will eliminate competition: high-quality, reliable, anonymous."
"Flooding of stationary and mobile phones."
"Pleasant prices: 24-hours start at $80. Regular clients receive significant discounts."
"Complete paralysis of your competitor/foe."

So, they already had the ability to take out your competitions network.Now, remember that girl who dumped you last week? They can spam her with 10,000 calls per hours now too. Scary.

Of course, it doesn't mention if it's just VOIP Based, Landline based, SMS, Cellular etc, but I'd put money on it that they're running an Asterisk (or hell, hacked skype or fwd or whatever) with several accounts, controlled by a little bot to do the calling, so theoretically I don't see why any of these services can't be "flooded" whether literally over the network, or figuratively by having all landlines ring busy for a week or two, or a month.

Has anyone else seen something like this in the wild? Any idea what they're doing/using? Let us know in the comments.

Integrics releases Enswitch 2.11

Integrics are pleased to announce the release of Enswitch 2.11, a complete integrated solution for commercial telephony services such as:

* Full featured multi-tenant hosted PBX.
* ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Provider).
* VoIP for WiFi providers.
* Toll-free and number translation services.
* Calling cards.

Enswitch is in production today with carriers worldwide on systems from hundreds of users on single machines to over one hundred thousand users on redundant/failover clusters. A list of new features can be found at:

http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/guides/latest/en/presales/new/

More links, including a full list of features and a working demo of the web interface, are at:

http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/

FreePBX receives investment from Bandwidth.com, is it a good or bad thing?

Today, Bandwidth.com announced that they have invested in FreePBX, the free GUI for administration of your Asterisk Server. According to this Asterisk blog, who spoke directly with Philippe from FreePBX this does not mean that Bandwidth.com will be given preferential treatment in the FreePBX GUI, but as this is so early who really knows what will happen. Obviously it would make sense for them to make SIP services from Bandwidth.com available in the interface for a "one stop shop" type interface, but I'm not sure if the community would agree with this or not.

Read the full article from TMCNet here

The official info is as follows

As for the purpose of the investment, Philippe said it was mostly due to Bandwidth.com's desire to grow the market and help build the FreePBX community. The idea is that the more IP-PBXs out there, the more SIP trunks, and hence more revenue for Bandwidth.com.

XMPP Turns 10! – Celebrate with people from around the world using these handy lists.

Looks like a list has been setup to celebrate the 10th year that XMPP/Jabber has been around. This was posted to the Jabber mailing list today. Go ahead, celebrate your geekiness!

we set up a special mailing list for discussions about the parties all around the world for Jabber's 10th Birthday.

You can or subscribe to the list here: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/birthday
Or read and post via the Jabberforum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=180

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