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VOCAL: Open Source VoIP Software for Linux

Posted by timothy on from the taunting-the-phone-company-dragon dept.

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."

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  1. off-topic: wish me luck. by dwlemon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tomorrow morning I ship off to U.S. Army basic training.

    This interested me because I get an entire year of schooling dealing with radios and electronics, they pay me to go to school, they pay off all my school loans, and my entire contract is only 4 years.

    I'm a typical geeky computer programmer, so this should be very interesting. Goodnight!

    1. Re:off-topic: wish me luck. by saveth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours. With any luck and with the help of your "geeky computer programmer" skills, you will end up as a programmer or a communications officer, rather than a live-round infantry target or something along these lines. Come back in one piece, would you? :)

  2. i am waiting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i got the first post yaay
    voip is cool. I reccomend chekcing out asterisk pbx. It is kicking it strong.

  3. Well well well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Finally first post is mine. Hahahahahahahaha

  4. I also got second by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or maybe third post hooray yeah victory tony tiger says there grrrreeeeeeaaaaaaaat yeah. Ooops trademark infringment

  5. Re:Palestine and the Jews (JEWS ROOLZ) by linatux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After September 11 our president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them
    Arafat must surely be at the top of the list?

  6. My experience has been interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmm, Trollaxor.com is DEAD, but BSD lives on...

  7. Re:ragnarok? by ragnarok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ragnarok is used in Norse mythology to refer to the end of the world, although it's unclear as to whether it refers to an event or a place.

    I am the apocolypse incarnate.

    --
    Search first, ask questions later.
  8. Re:Star Wars Explained by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kathleen is not fat!

    Signed,
    CmdrTaco

  9. Re:ragnarok? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ragnarök is sort of like the apocalypse. When the gods fight it out with the bad guys and the Fenriswolf finally eats the sun (or was it the moon) and Loke breaks out of his chains. Afterwords a new world will be created.

  10. Uh... Long line? by ChiPHeaD23 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any reason why the post is one huge line for me? Anybody else having this problem?