>From the diaries of the amazing Alex-Man, Chapter 4 Page 1, Vol 15. Congrats ;)
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com> wrote: > For immediate release: > > ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2015)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based software > vendor specialising in Kamailio-based service delivery solutions for the > VoIP ITSP market, is pleased to announce that it, in collaboration with > Red Hat Software and Ringfree Communications, has finalised the > absorption of the Kamailio SIP Server into the 'systemd' system management > platform for Linux. The new component shall be called 'systemd-rtc-server', > or 'Systemd Real-Time Communication Server'. > > Alex Balashov, principal of Evariste and leader of the tri-vendor > collaboration effort, will officially announce the handover of the reigns > of the Kamailio project to the personal leadership of Lennart Poettering > at the upcoming Systemd Real Time Communications World conference, to be > held in Berlin on 27-29 May of this year. > > John Knight, Director of GNOME 3 Integration and part-time usability > consultant at Ringfree Communications, based in Hendersonville, North > Carolina,was quick to summarise the triumphs of the long-standing > integration effort. > > Remarked Knight: > > "The industry has recognised for years that a SIP proxy is a basic building > block in the 'init' subsystem of any Linux host. In this age of multimedia > communication with voice and video, it was a travesty that systemd handled > time synchronisation, network configuration, login management, logging, > and console, but not SIP message routing." > > Sean McCord, a veteran partner at Atlanta-based integrator CyCORE & Docker, > was quick to concur: > > "SIP calls are much easier to troubleshoot with binary logs. Combined > with packet captures of TLS-encrypted WebRTC calls, systemd-journald > is the ultimate call setup troubleshooting methodology of the responsive, > kinetic enterprise." > > To support the integration of Kamailio into the ecosystem of every major > Linux distribution, Evariste has released new 'dbus_api' and 'pulseaudio' > modules for the project. > > Balashov stated, "We fully expect to use the D-Bus API to achieve > gnome-session integration with systemd-rtc-server-usrloc, but we aren't > going to leave Windows users behind; KamailioSvcHost.exe will support > Domain Controller policies for G.722 in Active Directory forests." > > Despite an aggressive delivery timeline by the tri-vendor consortium behind > systemd-rtc-server, industry commentators have widely lambasted the fact > that it took so long for Kamailio to become integrated into systemd. Fred > Posner, solutions architect at The Palner Group in Fort Lauderdale, > Florida, > recently wrote in a widely-publicised blog post: > > "sr-dev have been keeping their heads in the sand for too long. For years > now, it has been completely obvious and self-evident to anyone with half > a brain that all kinds of VoIP software should be included in systemd. > It's a basic building block of the whole OS, having absorbed functionality > previously provided by all kinds of packages like util-linux and > wireless-tools." > > John Knight of Ringfree accepted the criticism readily, but advocated a > forward-thinking orientation focused on breaking with the uncertainty of > the past: > > "In the absence of a SIP component for routing calls to the PSTN, some > people thought, 'systemd has no clear direction apart from the whims of its > developers, and is a perpetually moving goal post.' Well, a SIP server > should > put an end to that whole discussion; that's exactly what was missing, and > now > that we have systemd-rtc-server, we've eliminated all doubts about the > coherence, conceptual integrity and finality of systemd." > > > > -- > Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC > 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 > Atlanta, GA 30346 > United States > > Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list > sr-users@lists.sip-router.org > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users >
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