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VoIP Gets a New P2P Routing Protocol (DUNDi)

Posted by michael on from the transylvania-6-5000 dept.

bkw.org writes "Today Digium released DUNDi which can be used with the Asterisk Open Source PBX for p2p call routing. Digum has also released a whitepaper (pdf) on DUNDi so others can implement this new technology into their products and give VoIP a push into the mainstream." Voxilla also has a story.

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  1. The New Baby Bells by I+Hate+Spam+Alot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wonder if this will sping up into localized phone services like wifi and cheap fiber based internet did for small towns. The whole town chips in and gets to kick out the big corp. and run the local service as the citizan see fit. Plus it will be cool to run in my house!

  2. Javasterisk? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who's running a Java app server controlling their Asterisk PBX, or being controlled by it?

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  3. Language trivia of the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    dundi means chubby in Hungarian.

  4. Skype is now Obsolete by Bob_Robertson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And they did it to themselves.

    1: Skype uses proprietary protocols that are incompatible with any other service.

    2: Skype refuses to publish their interface profiles, so no one else can make software that is compatible.

    3: Skype has stated in no uncertain terms, over and over on their web page and FAQ, that they will never publish their API, never open their source. Period.

    Yet Skype doesn't sell their software. They maintain the full burden of development and testing, and try to pay for it by selling the service of POTS calls made through their software.

    Oh well, once the idea is in the wild, someone will "open source" it. Maybe someone will adapt the Speak Freely user interface to a P2P transport layer, maybe utilizing the Gnutella network itself? Hey, this is sounding like a good idea....

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  5. Dynamic IP Addressing by Junior+Samples · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most cable systems use dynamic IP addressing. Will DUNDI accommodate this?

    I presently access Free World Dialup through a conventional phone connected to the internet through a Sipura box that uses SIP protocol. The box connects to the FWD server to establish the peer to peer connection.

    The FWD server method works very well, but it's not that reliable. When the server is down, you can't dial out. An easy method of direct dialing without a dedicated server is needed.

    The Sipura box is also capable of direct IP to IP dialing, but it's very cumbersome to dial this way. So far, we haven't been successful with direct IP dialing. A better solution is needed. DUNDI may be the answer, but the white paper failed to mention if and how DUNDI would work in a dynamic address environment.