Replacing PBXes with Open Source

[Greg Rundlett]

Jon maddog Hall wrote:

>Hi,
>
>For the past eight years I have been predicting that it would only be a matter
>of time before we started replacing the really expensive proprietary hardware
>and software that goes into making a telephony system.  I have been watching
>while VoIP became better and better, and Gnomemeeting allowed videoconferencing
>using H.323
>
>Yesterday in the SoftPRO bookstore I saw a book on Asterisk, and for those of
>you who are not familiar with it, it is an Open Source project to replace
>the PBX (think "Centrex") services for a company.
>
>This is going to be HUGE.  It will be HUGE in emerging economies, but also
>HUGE in our own economy.   I show you website http://www.asterisk.org/
>
>This type of work will lower communications costs dramatically.
>
>  
>
Very Cool.  I don't know much about the technology involved, but I used 
to (briefly) work for Concerto Software -- a call-center 
hardware/software provider.  At the time, I noticed that there was a GNU 
project called Bayonne for telephony.  Their website is at
http://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/
They haven't released any news this year, so perhaps the project is a 
bit stalled.

Greg

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