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Welcome To FreeSWITCH
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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It's Here! The FreeSWITCH Book Has Been Published!
Submitted by
mcollins on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 18:06
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It's official: The FreeSWITCH book has arrived!
The official title of the book is FreeSWITCH 1.0.6, however don't let the number fool you. The information applies to both FreeSWITCH 1.0 and 1.2 branches. Under the hood there may be some differences but the user interface has remained very stable. This book is perfect for anyone learning the upcoming FreeSWITCH 1.2 release.
Thank you to everyone who helped Anthony, Darren, and me to get this
book written. The FreeSWITCH community really stepped up and helped us
with many unglorious tasks like proofreading and testing code samples.
There were times when I wanted to give up and the community really gave
me the encouragement to continue. Thanks again to everyone in
#freeswitch on irc.freenode.net for being so supportive.
Michael
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