FreeSWITCH breaks new ground in VOIP, telephony world!
FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony application built from the ground up
and designed to take advantage of most existing voip, telephony software and libraries. FreeSWITCH paves the way for one to build an open source PBX system, an open source voip switching platform or a VOIP, Telephony gateway uniting various technologies and platforms such as SIP H.323, IAX2, LDAP, Zeroconf, XMPP / Jingle and OpenPBX, Bayonne, YATE or Asterisk.
FreeSwitch is a multi-platforms software and it runs on Windows Linux and MAC. It is also possible to run it on other UNIX flavors.
FreeSwitch is built on existing OpenSource libraries and projects, namely SQlite, SRTP Secure RTP, Apache Portable Runtime, Lib Resample, exosip , IAXclient, Speex Codec, libsndfile.
FreeSWITCH, the telephone soft-switch, has touched upon a few milestones combining many a famous VOIP application features into it's core.
In Early April FreeSWITCH announced it's interoperability capabilities with the GoogleTalk, goggle's Voice chat program. Making it possible to gateway calls to SIP or the PSTN from Googletalk. Then again in July it brought out the capability of voice switching at 16Khz against the traditional 8Khx switching done in the VOIP world. This is a significant improvement on the quality of voice. What does that brings to a phone conversation? It brings more richness and clarity to voices, improving the overall experience of a phone call.
Now FreeSWITCH has done it again, Now it has brought the first two elements together and topped it off with a new capability that may change the way we interface to our phones.GoogleTalk has recently released a new version of their client capable of transmitting audio at 16 kilohertz making it possible to call FreeSWITCH and interact in a conference bridge or listen to a text-to-speech engine read you your favorite news story all in high definition audio.
You want a twist with that? Yes you can have all that and more, interact with the system on the phone by listening to the audio and dialing a few digits, now you can send and receive text messages with the system at the same time.
Imagine, you start your VOIP/TELEPHONY/CHAT program, and a voice asking you for your account information, then in a chat window you type your name and another person on the other end, on a phone be able to intercept the information and react accordingly. This may break the paradigm of the auto-attendant altogether. And I am sure the idea will run wild through the VOIP community. Who knows, one slime might even try to patent the idea!
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