Asterisk Developers Conference

Last week the Asterisk Developers Conference, or AstriDevCon 2007, was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Since a couple of TransNexus developers were attending, I visited the conference as a non-technical observer to see what was going on. I have to say that I was impressed with what I saw. Kevin Fleming has cultivated a productive relationship with Georgia Tech which has a long history of nurturing innovative new technologies and start-ups and Asterisk is a perfect fit with the Georgia Tech environment.

I was also impressed with the number and background of attendees. AstriDevCon 2007 was not a convention of beer drinking hackers (however, I think they would have been welcome) which some might suspect from an open source meeting. The attendees included developers from 31 different companies including heavy hitters IBM and Sun Microsystems. The topics discussed included improved security and new video features for Asterisk. There is no doubt that Asterisk will continue its robust growth and development. Asterisk version 1.6 promises to provide another great stride forward. If you are in the telecom business and not seriously considering the impact of Asterisk in your strategic marketing plans, then the assumptions in your long term plans are probably very wrong.

See you at GTM 2007 Next Week

Intelsat's annual Global Telecommunications Meeting (GTM 2007) will occur next week in Washington, D.C. GTM is like the UN of telecommunications. Every major international carrier and perhaps hundreds of smaller international carriers meet to negotiate bilateral interconnect agreements. In the old days before telecom deregulation, GTM was a small event for PTTs from all parts of the world. With deregulation, the number of carriers attending has increased dramatically.

Unlike technology conferences which try to be cool or geeky, GTM is a telecom conference for old time PTT and Bellheads - every one is dressed in suits. While it may appear formal, GTM is a great conference hosted by Intelsat and the entertainment are always first class. Like the PTC conference in Honolulu, GTM is a great networking event

TransNexus has attended GTM for years to meet with our customers and friends. If you plan to attend GTM and would like to meet, please send me an e-mail at jim.dalton@transnexus.com.

OSP Peering Server V3.0 Released

NexSRS OSP Peering Server V3.0 is now available for download from the TransNexus website.

New Features Include:
- Simpler route provisioning
- Support for trunk group routing and device partitioning based on called number prefix
- Better CDR reporting for stateless SIP proxies such as OpenSER and SER
- Improved integration with Cisco IP-IP VoIP gateways

For more information, please see http://www.transnexus.com/Products/NexSRS_VoIP_Peering_Server.htm