Toronto Asterisk User Group

Presenter:

Dave Donovan
IT Manager, Nuvo Research

Synopsis:

This intends to give attendees an overview of the pfSense and Freeswitch packages and review the process for a typical home installation. This will not be a step by step walkthrough but will include some screenshots and discussions of basic configuration options. The walkthrough, slides, and references should prepare attendees to build their own pfSense + Freeswitch system in a weekend.

Advanced knowledge of Asterisk, VOIP, and firewalls are not required. New users should find the material and concepts very accessable. New users are encouraged to come out and ask questions. Discussion of more advanced topics like integration is encouraged as part of the Q&A but will not be part of the slide show.

By the end of this presentation, you will have an overview of:

• Installing pfSense
• Installing the Freeswitch package for pfSense
• Configuring a softphone to connect to Freeswitch
• Configuring an ATA as a client of Freeswitch
• Configuring SIP trunking
• Basic firewall configuration for a typical home application

Anyone interested in reading up or experimenting in advance can go to pfsense.org to download ISO or VMware images of pfSense.

Matthew Gamble will be giving a talk on how the convergence of the traditional phone network with the power of modern application development is opening the door for a wide variety of powerful and feature-rich applications and services, as well as how these might tie into existing business processes and applications using a SIP Application Server.

What you will learn:

• Knowledge of directions and trends for SIP Application Server community
• Growing market for SIP application servers
• Understand state of the art of SIP Application designs
• Integration into existing business processes using standards such as SOAP, Java, XML, etc
• Understand future road maps

Why you should attend:

• To gain insight and knowledge about cutting egde trends in VoIP and next generation telecommunications.

Who should attend:

• Telecom managers
• Application developers

Stephan Monette from Unlimitel.ca will be visiting from Ottawa to give a talk on Asterisk security. He will cover common techniques used to guess passwords, how to better protect your system, and discuss how to write custom applications in C with the goal of increasing system security.

There will also be some brainstorming on building honey pots/mouse traps to detect and dissect attack vectors.

Elastix is an asterisk-based linux appliance that integrates the best tools available into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

Jose will discuss how Elastix differs from other Asterisk-based distributions, and the road map for the Elastix project.

Jose will be running a 'getting started' workshop on Elastix.

Elastix is an asterisk-based linux appliance that integrates the best tools available into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

This Month, Jim Van Meggelen will be giving an introductory talk on the Y.A.T.E (Yet Another Telephony Engine) project. Jim will go over the architecture, the very different way that YATE deals with dialplan, and, if all goes well, demonstrate the very powerful conferencing engine.

This month we welcome back one of the founders of TAUG, Shidan Gouran, to share with us his experiences working with Asterisk to create a small business appliance. Shidan will guide us through what he set out to do when co-founding Jazinga Inc. Why he chose to create an embedded Asterisk appliance and what challenges had to be overcome to be successful.

This month, Chris Chen will be giving a demonstration of many of the features
of FreeSWITCH which Mike Jerris talked about last month. He will take us
through his setup, which includes googletalk, conference, sip endpoints, sip
trunks, exchange 2007 um integration, asterisk server interconnections, flite
tts, and pocketsphinx ASR, among other things.

He will also be demonstrating some of the advanced SIP features, such as BLF,
SLA/BLA, SIP presence, simple messaging, intercom, ring groups, call
management, and the sorts of applications available, such as call spying,

Following up on free PBX interfaces, this month we will see what you get when you pay for it! Keith Major will give us a tour of the interface to a commercial hosted Asterisk PBX.

Where:[view:locale==NYCC Committee Room 4]

Afterwards, we will progress to a nearby pub around 7:30 - 8:00pm.

And the winner of the best open source Asterisk web management bundle is?

This month Henry Coleman will be giving us a tour of Elastix, an alternative to TrixBox.

Where:[view:locale==NYCC Committee Room 1]

Afterwards, we will progress to our regular pub (across the street) around 7:30 - 8:00pm: [view:locale==Tobys]