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VOCAL: Open Source VoIP Software for Linux
An Anonymous Coward writes: "While most Open Source projects are applications and utilities intended for single users, David Bryan and David Kelly did something different.
They created an infrastructure project -- a VoIP phone system that either can run on a single box attached to a couple of IP phones or can scale up to a network of hosts processing hundreds of
calls between thousands of users. In this informative technical article at ELJonline, Bryan and Kelly detail the 'Vovida Open Communications Applications Library' ('VOCAL') project, a fully functional phone system that can run on either Red Hat Linux or Sun Solaris."
Apache, sendmail, bind... famous open source projects designed for single users. It's a good idea someone came along to do this new innovative infrastructure sorta stuff. Maybe someday we can have a whole inter-network of computers using open protocols.
"'Vovida Open Communications Applications Library' ('VOCAL')" - talk about the award for the most contrived acronym!
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Community Supported VoIP. then we will have half of the teleco company's calling us pirate's and the other half calling us customers
man if this is fp the meaning to my life has meaning now.
Now, since they went out of their way to have a nice acronym, couldn't they have gone all the way? Change 'Vovida' to 'Vocal' and you have yourself a nice recursive acronym.
'Vovida Open Communications Applications Library' ('VOCAL')
Maybe they started the project only because they had found a cool acronym!...:)
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