Hello, This might interest people doing IP Telephony Infrastructures.
>X-Mailer: ListManager Web Interface >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:40:00 -0600 >Subject: Linux is calling you >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: NW on Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Linux Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH on >LINUX >02/27/02 >Today's focus: Linux is calling you > >Dear Raul Ocampo, > >In this issue: > >* Avaya's Linux-based IP PBX servers >* Links related to Linux >* Featured reader resource > >_______________________________________________________________ >This newsletter sponsored by >BMC > >***FREE demo from BMC Software*** > >Know more about how your applications are performing. BMC >Software's PATROL Performance Assurance will help you >understand the past, present and future performance of your IT >environment and enable you to identify and resolve application >bottlenecks and performance issues before they happen. To learn >more, download our FREE PATROL Performance Assurance demo. >http://nww1.com/go/3955258a.html >_______________________________________________________________ >NO TIME FOR FACE TIME > >Large companies with project teams spread over several >countries and multiple time zones are increasingly turning to >videoconferencing to connect geographically dispersed groups. >And IP-based equipment seems to be taking the lead over ISDN. >Find out why at: http://nww1.com/go/ad260.html > >_______________________________________________________________ >Today's focus: Linux is calling you > >By Phil Hochmuth > >Avaya this week reaffirmed what many enterprise Linux users >have know for a long time - Linux is a great telecommunications >platform. > >The former PBX and enterprise systems division of Lucent, Avaya >unveiled two Linux-based IP PBX servers that run call control >software for enterprise phone systems over IP, as opposed to >circuit-switched PBX systems. > >Avaya originally introduced its IP phone systems on a Windows >NT server platform. This has been the standard for many IP PBX >vendors, including Cisco and Nortel. However, the company says >it moved to Linux because the operating system was more stable >- a key benefit, since most IT people will tell you the only >thing worse than the e-mail server going down is the phones. >The company also said the availability of the source code was >helpful in making Linux a purpose-built server for phone >systems. > >Telecom is not a new area for Linux and open source software. >The OpenH.323 project has been around since 1998, providing an >open-source protocol stack for H.323, a commonly used protocol >for voice over IP communications. The protocol stack has been >tested with the latest versions of Red Hat, and can be used to >with communications applications such as a server-based phone >system, or IP video conferencing. > >Other more advanced IP telecom applications are also available >for Linux from such projects as Bayonne and Vovida. > >Bayonne is a telephony application server that can be used as >voice mail, interactive voice response systems or telephone >system administration tool. Vovida is a project which develops >free versions of the Session Initiation Protocol, Media Gateway >Control Protocol and the Real-time Protocol, which are all used >in advanced IP telephony, video and communications >applications. > >_______________________________________________________________ >To contact Phil Hochmuth: > >Phil Hochmuth is a Senior Writer for Network World, and >a former systems integrator. 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