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Is Linux Used in Production Telephony?

Posted by Cliff on from the interactive-voice-reponse dept.

jamesva asks: "The telecommunications industry is rapidly converging on Windows NT/2000 for all telephony and voice-related needs. Most ACD systems, virtual operators, and voicemail are being ported to Windows if they're not already running on it. In the past, telephony apps have existed most notably on OS/2, SCO, and even DOS. However, free Unix (or unix-like) platforms have absolutely no penetration in this area, with seemingly no chance on the horizon. The Bayonne app server from the GNU folks seems to be the one exception, but even then there doesn't seem to much built around it or anyone using it. It reached a 1.0 release in September and was met with no fanfare. Even the LinuxTelephony doesn't seem to have much news. Can someone prove me wrong? Why is this the case? I'm interested in finding out if anyone is using Linux (or any free OS) in a production environment for something like voicemail or ACD. These types of systems require high availability and reliability and Linux just seems like a natural fit."

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  1. I tried! by CySurflex · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried to install Linux and Slashcode on my homebrew hacked PBX telephony system, but then all my calls were being routed to goatse...

  2. Re:OS/2 by atrus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like Cisco. Its a very strange solution... There are lots of "call Cisco before fiddling this knob" knobs throughout the interface. And the contracter that installed it at our former school was incompetent, so doing something like running multicast ghost caused the phones to completley freak out (different VLAN mind you, maybe they hadn't heard of the bandwidth reservation/QoS feature :)). They'd start rining randomly at times, but no connection on the other end, amongst other problems.

  3. Re:Wait a second.. by Hater's+Leaving,+The · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup. What the user sees has bugger all to do with Unices of any type. However, I know that a certain Finnish telecommunications company that do infrastructural products as well as mobiles, certainly do a fair amount of development for their embedded code using HP-UX and Solaris systems for these infrastructural products.
    You're not a real hacker until you've built a 2.5GB binary (unstripped of course) on a fuck-off Solaris machine.

    From the look of their UIs, the mobile phone division does development using an abacus and a poorly trained monkey.

    THL.

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  4. Bell labs basically invinted Unix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What do you think those 20 million dollar Lucent and Notel Switches are using? I'll take Unix for $300, Bob.

  5. Linux isn't used for telephony... by ComaVN · · Score: 2, Funny

    because you can't even get a simple winmodem to work with it.

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