OSDL and GNU Bayonne Project Make Large-Scale Tele

Bryce Harrington writes "The GNU Bayonne project and the Open Source Development Lab... announced the availability of large-scale development and testing for GNU Bayonne through OSDL.

The facilities will be used to extend GNU Bayonne's digital telephony capabilities to support large-scale commercial enterprises and carrier-class telco applications. OSDL will initially provide four dedicated high-end servers equipped with a variety of digital telephony hardware.

Initial development at this facility will not only focus on extending GNU Bayonne to support large API applications, but also to test and demonstrate the project's clustering and distributed network call model. The Bayonne software will extend the use of Linux in high-end commercial voice telephony and provide GNU Bayonne services for the next-generation IP based telephony network."

Question

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So I wonder with Bayonne Project and Open H323 if it would be possible for someone to setup a few IP to local phone gateways in major cities and thereby provide alternative long distance service? Would it be competitively priced and would the typical performance be adequate?

Re:Question

[dyfet]

Bayonne is part of the larger GNU Telephony project (GNUCOMM) (as well as being part of GNU Enterprise). In GNUCOMM there are several projects underway to address deployment of VoIP gateways specifically, including Troll. Troll is a rump Bayonne server which just includes the Bayonne driver stack, a GNU ccRTP stack for streaming, and session manager plugins, including one for use with the oSIP package.

OpenH323 is another project which attempts to be a standards compliant H323 implimentation and also includes interfaces for some telephony devices to build gateways as well as H323 user agents and proxy servers.

Why?

[duffbeer703]

Why would you name Telecom software after a crappy city in New Jersey?

And who is going to use GNU telecom software anyway?

Re:Why?

[Micah]

For one thing, it's integrated with GNU Enterprise [gnue.org], which I think has potential to be big.

Re:Why?

[dyfet]

> Why would you name Telecom software after a crappy > city in New Jersey?

Actually it's the bridge, not the city. Long ago we decided to use a bridge name, but what bridge? Well, there is the Golden Gate bridge, but many software projects seem to use this. The Brooklyn bridge had some interesting connotations. There was that other very famous bridge, up in washington state, but we felt that with it's propensity for self distruction it was best left for use by a local proprietary vendor. So that left the Bayonne bridge...