Michael Iedema (michael@askozia.com)

Outline✴ who am I?

✴ what is IKT?

✴ what is AskoziaPBX?

✴ should you care?

✴ what is yet to come?

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IKT✴ Voice / Media over IP

✴ OSS Integration

✴ IMS / TISPAN

✴ QoS Mechanisms

✴ Protocol Conformity Tests

✴ IPv6

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Background✴ Asterisk’s !exibility creates complexity for normal

users

✴ will everyone eventually need a PBX?... a glori"ed answering machine?

... a “phone router”?

✴ IKT formally sponsors initial development

✴ "rst public beta released on June 1, 2007 after 6 months of development

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Philosophy✴ hybrid PBX

✴ logical defaults

✴ common terminology

✴ nothing less or more than the necessities

✴ “phone router”

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Current State✴ Asterisk 1.4 “appliance” distribution

✴ SIP, IAX, ISDN and Analog phone and provider accounts

✴ conferencing, transfers, voicemail via e-mail

✴ <15MB "rmware images... 6 hardware speci"c and a “generic-pc” image

✴ multilingual audio prompts... de, dk, en-us, en-gb, es, fr-fr, fr-ca, it, jp, nl, ru, sw

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More than a GUI✴ entire system con"gurable via WebGUI

... network, wireless, isdn and analog interfaces

... "rmware upgrades, smtp client, ntp, localization...

✴ con"guration stored as a single xml "le... simpli"ed backup / restore / provisioning

✴ simple package system to add functionality to existing "rmware

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<sip> <phone> <extension>200</extension> <callerid>Michael Iedema (office)</callerid> <secret>supersecret</secret> <provider>SIP-PROVIDER-11618267424832</provider> <codec>ulaw</codec> <uniqid>SIP-PHONE-4093618224832</uniqid> </phone> <provider> <name>test provider</name> <readbacknumber>12345</readbacknumber> <username>myuser</username> <secret>somesecret</secret> <host>testprovider.com</host> <dialpattern>X!</dialpattern> <calleridsource>phones</calleridsource> <incomingextensionmap> <destinationid>SIP-PHONE-4093618224832</destinationid> </incomingextensionmap> <codec>ulaw</codec> <uniqid>SIP-PROVIDER-11618267424832</uniqid> </provider></sip>

...Shoulders of Giants✴ Open Source is fantastic!

✴ impossible to develop such a complex system with so few resources

... simplifying usage of an existing group of packages

✴ tech savvy testers... feature ideas

... cultural / regional input

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Roadmap for 1.0 (2008-07-01)

✴ package system + basic api... prompts, music-on-hold and logging packages

✴ logical vs physical interfaces

✴ live account status indicators

✴ time based call routing

✴ more robust call-group, conferencing and caller-id options

✴ live / install cd

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Cooperation✴ appliance hardware manufacturers

✴ system integrators

✴ developers

✴ current sponsors:

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Future Directions✴ proper api, package development platform for

third parties

✴ automatic secure interconnection of systems

✴ a truly plug-and-play “phone router”

✴ rewrite for m0n0wall’s updated c++ xml-rpc based architecture

✴ stripped-down gateway platform

✴ re-integration of m0n0wall functionality

✴ user portal

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Questions✴ can be asked in either English or German

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Demo System✴ connect to “AskoziaPBXDemo” network

✴ interface is at https://192.168.1.2

✴ username: admin

✴ password: askozia

✴ be nice ;)

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