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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