VOIP & Asterisk introduction - Profoss

AWT www.awt.beAsterisk market view•Some news from September 2007 Voice on the Net (VON) ItalyWorkshop “Open Source VoIP, sustainability of OS projects in the businesssector”Thanks to Diego Gosmar from WildixCo–author of the Book "Asterisk and Surroundings"•What « people » thinks Niche market today but increasing fast Too complex for end user but very flexible for the professionals Not ready for big enterprise unless you have some good professionals Expensive “after all”, if you start from scratch Lack of support from a single vendor Part of open communication blocks•Market true bottleneck Too much fragmented offer To many companies selling their “own solution’ Too many hardware platform The PBX core is stable, what about the software on top ?•Where asterisk should go ? Standardize User Interface (more that 30 up to now), CTI, API forapplication integration Provide more video Include a real SIP (statefull) proxyProfoss oct. 2007 - 37