[Asteriskbrasil-biz] Notícias sobre asterisk 1.4

[Ralph Liebessohn]

Intenções da Digium para o Asterisk.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631546

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* September 12, 2006 *
*New Asterisk Set to Ring*
*By Sean Michael
Kerner<http://www.internetnews.com/feedback.php/http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631546>
*

Asterisk has been a disruptive force in the telco world since at least its 1.0
release <http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3412951>.

And now with version 1.4, the first major release of the open source VoIP (
define<http://inews.webopedia.com/SHARED/search_action.asp?Term=VOIP&Template_Name=inews.webopedia.com>)IP-PBX
in almost a year <http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3565666>, as
well as a looming hardware appliance, Asterisk and its corporate sponsor
Digium are hoping to disrupt the telco world ever further.

"There have been so many great developments in this version of Asterisk, it
is impossible to cite just one," Kevin Fleming, senior software engineer at
Digium and co-maintainer of Asterisk <http://www.asterisk.org/>, told *
internetnews.com*.

New features include Jabber, Jingle and GoogleTalk protocol compatibilities
enabling Asterisk users to collaborate with peers on those Jabber/XMPP-based
instant messaging networks.

IPFAX capabilities are also part of Asterisk 1.4 as is Unified Messaging
that provided for integration of all faxes, e-mails and voicemails into a
single mailbox that can be retrieved using any Internet-capable
communications device.

A new feature called Whisper Paging enables what Digium describes as
"selective, pre-programmed call interruption with controlled volume levels
and muting capabilities."

Performance has also been improved in the new release with memory, SIP (
define<http://inews.webopedia.com/SHARED/search_action.asp?Term=SIP&Template_Name=inews.webopedia.com>)call
transfer interoperability and enhanced media stream capabilities.

Digium is also announcing a new Asterisk Appliance and an Asterisk Appliance
Developer Kit to help bridge the gap between software and hardware.

Digium's Asterisk Appliance is a bona fide hardware appliance and not a
virtual offering.

Bill Miller, vice president of product management and marketing for Digium,
explained to *internetnews.com* that the Asterisk appliance will be sold as
a standalone when it becomes available next year.

In the meantime, users are required to purchase the Asterisk Appliance
Developer Kit to obtain early access to the appliance.

As opposed to the Asterisk Business
Edition<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3611241>,
which is built as a software appliance using rPath
Linux<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3626336>,
the Asterisk Hardware Appliance will use uCLinux.

"The processor on the device is an analogue Blackfin processor, and that
works in an embedded environment," Miller explained. "Asterisk is embedded
into that environment, and the version of Linux that runs in that
environment today is uCLinux."

"One of the advantages to uCLinux is that is has very little memory
requirement."

The appliance will also boast something that open source Asterisk has never
had, namely a graphical user interface (GUI).

There have been third-party GUIs for Asterisk but never one from the project
itself or from Digium.

"As the creator of Asterisk, Digium has a unique understanding of Asterisk,"
Miller said.

"As a result, it only made sense for us to develop a GUI that makes it even
easier for developers to create Asterisk-based solutions."



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Ralph Liebessohn
ICQ: 74835911
Skype: liebessohn
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