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I just finished moderating a panel session at ITExpo about the Advantages of Open Source VoIP.

We got a great contribution from Kerry Garrison from Fonality, Ming Yong from Druid and Jonathan Christensen from Skype. One of the panelists, the president of Intuitive Voice, unfortunately didn’t show up.

It’s been a very interesting discussion and one of the most interesting things I learnt is that Skype is using Open Source servers to terminate calls to the PSTN. Can you believe in it? Skype is using Open Source inside their infrastructure.

The problem is about interconnection with international providers offering them PSTN termination. The choice to use open source solutions doesn’t surprise me at all, Skype is not surely going to be tight to big vendors for this. Moreover, some of their PSTN provders are using Open Source themselves, like Telio for instance.

That said, the discussion has been really interesting and I’m happy I asked for Skype to join the panel, it’s definitely been more “spicy“. Thank you to everyone who attended this panel.

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Technorati Tags: druid, fonality, luca filigheddu, Open source, skype

The new Trixbox Pro 2.0 just released by Fonality offers an interesting capability: you can plug your IP Phones in and they just download the appropriate configuration from the network, reboot and just work. It’s very important because it helps resellers and system integrators to save a lot of time during their daily job.

While it’s certainly nothing really new (in my company our Polycom phones get auto configured as soon as plugged in, since we moved in our new offices back in 2005), the challenging part is to make this feature available to most IP phones seamlessly.

The next step is to make this feature available to any provider which needs to make the configuration process as easy as possible for their user base in the consumer market.

Technorati Tags: auto configuration, fonality, luca filigheddu, trixbox, VoIP