The telephony industry was late to adopt open-source software and commodity protocols. The open-source development community is rapidly correcting that problem. Everyone from enthusiasts to Fortune 500 companies are now deploying open-source telephony software, from PBX's to voice messaging systems to VoIP gateways. This lecture will focus on the practical. We'll provide demos of the major open-source telephony systems, a brief tutorial on rapid application development, and a discussion of the effect these systems will have on the future the industry. Special attention will be paid to Bayonne and other GNU projects, and their relationship to the more ambitious GNUComm and GNU Enterprise meta-projects.
Attendees should leave with an understanding of the general capabilities of the major existing open-source telephony projects and a working knowledge of basic application development with the GNU telephony subsytem.