I wish we could have this for real.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olle E. Johansson" <[email protected]> To: "Asterisk Non-Commercial Discussion Users Mailing List -" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:18 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW CHANNEL DRIVER FORASTERISK RELEASED TODAY
>* NEW CHANNEL DRIVER FOR ASTERISK 1.6 AND VOXSWITCH 3 ADDS AUDIO AND > VIDEO TO MICROBLOGGING! > > In a surprising move, Digium in partnership with Edvina today released > a new channel driver for Asterisk, chan_tweet. The driver connects > seamlessly to several microblogging platforms, including Twitter, > Facebook, Laconi.ca/Identi.ca and GSM text/SMS. The main feature of > this new module is to add audio and video capabilities to > microblogging, making the popular microblogging networks a new > platform for VoIP and IP realtime communication. > > - "I have seen that the microblogging solutions building on the social > network infrastructure have had enourmous unexploited capabilities", > says Mill Biller at Digium, "I've used it for a long time both > personally and for the company and we realized early that by adding > IAX2 support, we could now take these platforms one giant leap forward > by adding realtime multimedia. I can now spend evenings chit-chatting > in audio and HD-resolution video with all my audience around the world > instead of sending short text messages. It's truly awsome!" > > Digium contracted Edvina in Sweden, a well-known company in the > Asterisk community and long-term Digium business partner, to build > this solution. Edvina has many years of experience in building large- > scale IAX2 networks, as well as doing development on the IAX2 support > in Asterisk. > > - "IAX2 recently was published in an IETF RFC and we're pushing it > heavily in all VoIP forums." says Olle Johansson of Edvina, "We're > hoping that the IAX2FORUM will get a lot of new members that are > willing to adopt this technology for their intranets, microblogging > services and VoIP infrastructures. In the coming month, we will > present more information about new partners with more than 100K users > that are going to switch from old technologies, like Hype, SIP and H. > 323. All of these protocols failed, either because they where > proprietary or simply became too complex. SIP currently has more than > 5.000 pages of documents describing all the features of the protocol > and there's no single implementation of all of these to test with. > Considering the protocol being over 10 years old, this is a sad story." > > - "We've done our best to fix the Asterisk SIP channel support for > customers, but the customer base has been shrinking as more and more > converted their networks to IAX2 and now, there's simply no one > interested in us doing that work. We've stated over and over again > that the SIP channel in Asterisk is broken and no one can prove us > right or wrong, because the protocol is just too complex." > > * The Microblogmedia platform > ------------------------------------------ > The Microblogmedia(TM) platform, developed by Digium and Edvina, let's > users use any microblogging network to set up multimedia sessions. By > compressing an IAX2 call setup event in the microblog message, web > browsers and clients will connect automatically peer-2-peer if > possible, or through the MicroBlogMediaRelay network that supports > seamless NAT and firewall traversal by using automatic IPv6 tunnels. > > Asterisk 1.6.3, released later this month, will support this feature > in the IAX2, H.323 and maybe in the old SIP channel (that is now > marked deprecated). There is work on adding this feature to ISDN > calls, by using messages in the D-channel for tunneling the IAX2 call > setup messages. Digium's VoxSwitch will support this feature in the > next release, planned for q3 2009. > > * Ending the Hype project > ----------------------------------- > In the same press release, Sock Stevens, product manager at Digium > finally acknowledged that the Hype channel driver that was launched at > Astricon 2008 will not be released after all. > - "We found only one partner to test interoperability with, and that's > not enough to make sure the channel driver being compatible with the > protocol. And the protocol wasn't published in any RFC at all, or any > other document. So we finally gave up. We're now dedicating resources > for the new chan_tweet project and enhancing presence support in our > IAX2 solution. With the installed base of IAX2 and the new > MicroBlogMedia platform, this will be an even more impressive > solution, reaching millions of IAX2 users in the enterprise as well as > public sector and homes." > > * Technichal factoids > ---------------------------- > - chan_tweet is the result of the project labelled "Codename > orangepeel" amongst the development team and builds on the new > "Pinemango" architecture. This is the first channel driver not > connecting directly to the Asterisk core, but to the Pinemango API > over Adversion, the Ruby framework developed by Phil Jaysip. > - The MicroBlogMediaRelay IAX2 platform is an open distributed network > that builds on IPv6 and a facebook application, thus using the > enormous bandwidth provided for free by the Facebook(TM) platform > - chan_tweet will be released with the core module in Open Source, but > with a license exception for plugin developers to add proprietary > modules, like the Wireless Village plugin provided by the 3GPP project > and the Unistim Microblog Solution by Nertol Networks. > > For more information, please do not contact Digium sales. > > To be released: 2009-04-01 > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
