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The World's First Cross-Platform Scalable FREE Multi-Protocol Soft Switch
FreeSWITCH is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools.
FreeSWITCH was originally designed and implemented by Anthony Minessale with the help of Brian West and Michael Jerris. All 3 are former developers of the popular Asterisk open source PBX. The project was initiated to focus on several design goals including modularity, cross-platform support, scalability and stability. Today, many more developers and users contribute to the project on a daily basis.
We support various communication technologies such as Skype, SIP, H.323 and GoogleTalk making it easy to interface with other open source PBX systems such as sipXecs, Call Weaver, Bayonne, YATE or Asterisk.
FreeSWITCH supports many advanced SIP features such as presence/BLF/SLA
as well as TCP TLS and sRTP. It also can be used as a transparent proxy with and without media in the path to act as a SBC (session border controller) and proxy T.38 and other end to end protocols.
FreeSWITCH supports both wide and narrow band codecs making it an ideal solution to bridge legacy devices to the future. The voice channels and the conference bridge module all can operate at 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 or 48 kilohertz and can bridge channels of different rates. The G.729 codec is also available under a commercial license.
FreeSWITCH builds natively and runs standalone on several operating systems including Windows, Max OS X, Linux, BSD and Solaris on both 32 and 64 bit platforms.
FreeSWITCH supports FAX, both over audio and T.38, and can gateway between the two.
Our developers are heavily involved in open source and have donated code and other resources to other telephony projects including openSER, sipXecs, The Asterisk Open Source PBX and Call Weaver.
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FreeSWITCH Comes in 8th out of 103 Alternatives to Cisco and Avaya.
Most of those "alternatives" are indeed Asterisky
If you distilled the list down to have only one "Asterisk" mentioned then it looks like it is only a few dozen alternatives. Still, having so many Asterisk-based solutions out there is proof that OSS telephony is very valuable and that Asterisk, in spite of its shortcomings, is the king of OSST. I guess that makes FreeSWITCH the upstart heir apparent? :)
In any case, seeing FS so high on that list is very gratifying. I've been watching FS for almost 2.5 years and I am amazed at how far it has come since the little guy hammering on the stone wheel. (Inside reference for those of you who've been here for a while.)
Keep up the good work Tony, Mike, and Brian!
-MC
Oh you mean him, hes' still here working hard.