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IBM and 3Com Plan First Internet Telephony Suite
TechnoGuyRob writes "IBM and 3Com, a company best known for its computer network infrastructure products, are teaming up to provide the world's first IP telephony suite. From the article: 'IBM and 3Com intend to offer the 3Com VCX suite of IP telephony Relevant Products/Services from solutions on IBM's System i business-computing platform... This means clients will be able to run business and telephony applications simultaneously managed by the System i's tools.' The application is intended for the Linux-on-Power operating system; so yes, it will run Linux."
...other than Asterisk, right? Or is this somehow much better?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Sorry.
Here's some articles with more information:
TMCnet
InformationWeek
TechNews
Read the Information Week article. The system already runs on Linux. It's being ported to i5/OS.
Asterisk is too complicated for you to configure? Unable to add the FreePBX web interface? Can't manage to get the Flash Operator Panel working?
Let me introduce you to Asterisk@Home which is uber-easy to configure (get your PBX up and running in an hour or two!), or if the "@Home" name is too objectionable for your PHB, the shiny Asterisk@Work logo so you can convince him that an open source project is suited for business use.
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Only thing that concerns me concerning competetiveness, are the new fcc telco rules and related pending legislation, the stuff that will make it easy for monsters like IBM and 3com to pay premiums for better ISP service.
All people talk about is Asterisk. Meanwhile there's the OpenSource solution (even GPL) called Yate; which handles a magnitude larger number of calls than Asterisk on the same hardware, it has the (currently still unique) perfect NAT-proof algorithm for SIP, it has excellent support for H.323, and, last but not least, the company supporting it insists to do paid work only when it results in (new) GPLed code.
Yate handles business-logic integration just fine with predefined hooks (I used a PostgreSQL backend to integrate it with).
Check out Yate, it's open source, and scalable, and is in use in many callcenters in Europe without problems.
Well that's fine, if you don't mind paying the high cisco TAC fees each year to keep your contract open.
This is a interesting opensource project started by someguys, we're currently testing it out at work, so far theres no issues. voip suite
Unfortunatlly everything goes quite well with Cisco if the entire network is only Cisco. We've managed by mistake to convince in several situations Cisco phones (7940) to reboot after a well formatted SIP packet(RFC 3261 compliant) that wasn't in the way Cisco thinks SIP should be.
I think that free/open software is starting to be backed up by companies that are able to provide the technical support for any kind of issues. A few companies which do that are: Null Team which supports Yate, Digium which supports Asterisk.