Begin forwarded message:
From: "Tim O'Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 2, 2007 11:22:02 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk
O'Reilly dumped our proprietary PBX for asterisk about a year ago,
and happily chose "free" over three proposals costing hundreds of
thousands of dollars for proprietary VoIP PBX alternatives. Since
then, we've enjoyed asterisk's enormous flexibility. If there was
ever a sweet spot for open source, it's VoIP, and I'm surprised that
more people haven't been paying attention to Asterisk and Freeswitch
(another open source pbx.) There are huge cost savings possible, and
the flexibility and control that comes with both open source and VoIP
really make it possible to make your voice communications part of
your digital toolbox, rather than some anachronistic backwater.
I never listen to voice mail on my phone any more. It's really sweet
to get it as an email attachment, and to be able to forward it as
easily as any other email. And programming phone applications is
finally starting to get out of the stone age.
If your org isn't using asterisk, it should be. I'll also point out
that the implementation is relatively painless. And if you have
trouble, there are good books available, including ones from yours
truly :-)
Meanwhile, this message reminds me to make the same offer I've made
for past O'Reilly conferences. The first five IP readers to respond
can get a free pass to the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference to
be held February 27 to March 1, 2007 at the San Francisco Airport
Marriott.
The conference doesn't focus exclusively on Asterisk, but there's a
lot of Asterisk-related content, including a keynote from Mark
Spencer, the founder of Digium and the creator of Asterisk, as well
as some great sessions on asterisk and VoIP techniques, including the
launch of a new framework for programming Asterisk on Ruby. Another
very cool session at the conference is a workshop entitled Calls in
the Utility Computing Cloud - Experiments in on demand ultra scalable
telephony Using Amazon EC2 and S3 - This is freeswitch and Asterisk
both - This is really exciting stuff. They are using Ec2 to create on
demand scalable phone networks - something that was not possible
before. You basically had to over-specify and pray your network never
reached capacity.
For more information about the conference, see http://
conferences.oreillynet.com/etel2007/
The actual program is at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/50/
schedule.html (For some reason, Mark Spencer's keynote isn't listed,
but the conference chair reassures me that he will be there.)
To get one of the free passes, send email to Kathleen Bruno -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- and tell her about the message on IP. Kathleen
is on holiday; back in the office Thursday Jan 4, so don't expect an
immediate reply.
Also, here's a 15% discount code you can use if you aren't lucky
enough to get one of the free passes: etel07tim
For more details on the conference, see http://
conferences.oreilly.com/etel.
To register using the IP discount, send email to Kathleen Bruno,
kbruno at oreilly.com. She's still on holiday till tomorrow, but
will get back to you as soon as possible to let you know if you were
one of the first responders.
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Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media,
1005 Gravenstein Highway N., Sebastopol, CA 95472
+1-707-827-7150 http://tim.oreilly.com
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