http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2010-09-17 01:51:08 - Home : eZuce launches to offer support for sipXecs eZuce eZuce was founded by many of the original founders of SIPfoundry and after Avaya's departure from SIPfoundry, eZuce became the main sponsor of the sipXecs open source project As a company with an open source business model, eZuce offers the following 1 sipXecs Commercial is an offering where we provide support for sipXecs under a subscription license This is typically level 3 support to partners and we expect the partner to do level 1 2 as well as other incremental services like installation If you are interested in becoming a partner, contact us 2 sipXecs EDU is a special offering for universities We will announce more details around this program when we launch the new SIPfoundry Web site 3 And finally, openUC is a commercial version of sipXecs that comes under a commercial perpetual license with support for all those customers who need a solid product at a great price, but are not into open source eZuce targets larger customers with a scalable and fully standards based solution and we work with partners to enable them to offer managed services We also work with MSPs enabling Communications as a Service CaaS and cloud deployment options The sipXecs project has been around since 2004 and our solution is mature and in widespread use Partners and end customers working with eZuce benefit from a fully supported product In particular, this allows partners to offer a fully supported solution with standard SLA to end users, including level 3 support escalations Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive, secure and scalable open source unified communications software solution available We are an open alternative to otherwise proprietary systems and we offer an attractive and cost effective migration path from a legacy IP PBX to a new all software based IT application for everything communications We hope you welcome the initiative we have taken and we are looking forward to hearing from you Martin J Steinmann http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/247767.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/247767.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-24 11:46:51 - Home - You would not believe the night we just hadwe'll be back up and running soon -D http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/243545.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/243545.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-27 10:04:37 - Home - Everyone, let's represent sipXecs in a big way at Cluecon If you haven't heard about Cluecon it's 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony We don't have a sipXcon yet, so this is the next best thing, in fact it's better because the FreeSWITCH guys will be there which is becoming a bigger and bigger part of sipXecs Top reasons to go 10 Chance to meet other sipXecs users and developers 9 Learn undocumented FreeSWITCH console commands 8 Talk telcom to fellow geeks like yourself 7 Listen to my 30-min talk about sipXecs 6 If they let me talk, they will let anyone talk, submit your proposal now 5 Generate business leads 4 Get new business ideas 3 Easy picking for converting disgruntled Asterisk users trying to scale their system 2 Entrance fee money helps supports open source development And the 1 reason to go 1 If enough people go, maybe we can convince Damian to swing by Chicago on his way through America See you at Cluecon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/226184.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/226184.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-13 07:16:14 - Home - Everyone, let's represent sipx in a big way at Cluecon If you haven't heard about Cluecon it's 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony We don't have a sipXcon yet, so this is the next best thing, in fact it's better because the FreeSWITCH guys will be there which is becoming a bigger and bigger part of sipX Top reasons to go 10 Chance to meet other sipx users and developers 9 Learn undocumented FreeSWITCH console commands 8 Talk telcom to fellow geeks like yourself 7 Listen to my 30-min talk about sipx 6 If they let me talk, they will let anyone talk, submit your proposal now 5 Generate business leads 4 Get new business ideas 3 Easy picking for converting disgruntled Asterisk users trying to scale their system 2 Entrance fee money helps supports open source development And the 1 reason to go 1 If enough people go, maybe we can convince Damian to swing by Chicago on his way through America See you at Cluecon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/221744.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/221744.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-16 05:34:23 - Home - The development team for SipFoundry today announced the release of sipXecs 42 Release 42 is a substantial milestone in that over sip4_21200 items were addressed in the software, provides some substantial new features, and bring increased stability and management of the sipXecs system The release of 42 provides the following highlights and much more XMPP Instant Message Server Integration Bridged Line Appearance - provides key system style shared line appearance User Portal Improvements such as import of personal address list New Device Support including Polycom 450, 335, 321, 331 phones, Polycom SIP 322 software, Audiocodes 60, Avaya Nortel 12xx Improvements to Call Detail Records New Music-on-Hold in Freeswitch server, new Personal Music-on-hold New Freeswitch based Voicemail server Web collaboration via integration of DIM DIM New Interoperability - Nortel Avaya CS1000 SIP integration, support for TLS with sipXecs sipxbridge Simplification - Discovery mechanism for Polycom and Nortel 12xx phones, improvements to default configuration options Serviceability improvements - E911 sent to SMS, log configuration changes, SNMP traps of alarms The user community is encouraged to upgrade your systems to 42 and give it a try This is a stable release with some fantastic features that enhance the market that sipXecs can address Today, with Bridged Line Appearance, sipXecs can be used in many more installations http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212835.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212835.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-16 01:15:38 - Home - We're happy to announce that version 420 of sipXecs is now available This is a monster release with respect to feature content Summary of Jira's resolved Bugs 862 New Features 115 Improvement 187 Task Sub-Task 68 Total issues 1232 See the mailing list announcment here You can check out the release notes from Jira at sipXecs 420 Release Notes Software is available in the public folders as well as the ISO Enjoy http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212696.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212696.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-19 10:25:26 - Home - This is a big release Major new items include 1 SIP trunking and remote worker support far-end and near-end NAT traversal with support for an optionally redundant media relay for media anchoring 2 New voice conferencing solution based on the FreeSWITCH media server Thanks to Michal Bielicki and Pawel Pierscionek from VoiceWorks and of course the FreeSWITCH team Anthony Minessale, Michael Jerries and Brian West Conferencing solution supports HD Voice and offers dynamic Web based conference controls 3 sipXecs cluster management now allows creating a fully distributed system that is centrally managed 4 New IVR Auto-attendant also based on the FreeSWITCH media server 5 Support for 64 bit CPU architectures for both Interl AMD as well as PPC 6 A new integrated reporting solution based on Jasper reports 7 Source routing that allows call routing based on where the call originates ie in a branch office 8 Lot's of updated phone and gateway profiles with plug play management Linksys, Cisco thanks to Sen Heng , Grandstream, Aastra, Polycom, Audiocodes, and others 9 Improved operations including certificate management, log and snapshot management, patch and upgrade management, DNS DHCP configuration assistance, backup restore to FTP, time and DST management 10 Bulk provisioning of Counterpath Bria Professional phone 11 Click-to-call from the user portal In addition, the release includes a lot of fixes of previously broken things, including improvements to the RLS based presence server, performance improvements in the proxy, and probably a few things I forgot Thanks to everyone who participated and a special thanks to our test team led by Raghu http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193474.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193474.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-11 20:04:16 - Home - We're delighted to announce that version 402 of sipXecs is now available We expect this to be the last fix release in 40 - the next planned release is 420 this could of course change if a sufficiently serious problem is uncovered See the mailing list announcment here sipXecs 402 Release Notes 23 Bug Fixes 6 Improvements New Features Skype One of the exciting new features of 402 is Skype for SIP sipXecs 402 adds an ITSP template which has been tested with Skype http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140128.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140128.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-20 20:43:07 - Home - It is well known now that OnRelay chose sipXecs as the basis for the mobile MBX product What is less known are the reasons why they selected sipXecs over Asterisk and other solutions Ivar Plahthe, OnRelay's CEO just wrapped up an interview with Richard Grigonis at Internet Telephony, talking about the 4 critical areas where sipXecs came out on top SIP compliance, ease of use, feature richness and scalability What more is there to a software based unified communications solution IP PBX http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132926.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132926.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-17 20:28:11 - Home - SIP Print announced certification of its pure SIP call recording appliance solution with the sipXecs IP PBX system Congratulations to the SIP Print team This is a great addition to every sipXecs IP PBX eployment http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/131604.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/131604.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-13 23:39:15 - Home - sipXecs IP PBX Reference Book There is a lot you can do with the sipXecs IP PBX Unified Communications solution and the new book written by Michael Picher explains it all Michael is hands-on familiar with sipXecs, telephone systems, networks and IT infrastructure and in a well written way he articulates how sipXecs is deployed in an enterprise environment The book covers the latest release 40 of sipXecs, includes lot's of screenshots, tips tricks, as well as relevant info on how to configure your network as well as the necessary network services like DNS and DHCP The book is available from Packt Publishing, a well known publisher of technical and open source literature for 40 You can also get it as an e-book for 25 It is highly recommended by the SIPfoundry community http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/130757.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/130757.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-25 19:09:40 - Home - OnRelay, the London UK based cellular fixed mobile convergence FMCsolution provider announced general availability of its Mobile PBXsolution Unified MBX Unified MBX is based on the sipXecs IP PBX,which OnRelay selected over Asterisk and other alternatives In thepress release OnRelay states "The sipXecs IP PBX brings scalability,resiliency and an extensive feature set" We congratulate OnRelayfor reaching this important milestone and look forward to continue towork togetherhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113738.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113738.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-23 17:25:25 - Home - Today Nortel announced a new version of its Software CommunicationSystem SCS open and simple unified communication solution that isbased on the sipXecs IP PBX open source projectTo quote the Nortel press release: "Prompted by strong demand fromcustomers and partners, Nortel* TSX: NT | OTC: NRTLQ is expandingits Software Communication System SCS solution to accommodateenterprises beyond small and medium-size businesses"A new SCS product specific Web site was launched as well inconjunction with this announcement Software Communication SystemSCS is available for sale through the Nortel channel, as well asthrough IBM and Dell This announcement is a fantastic proof point ofthe quality, scalability and value of the sipXecs IP PBX systemhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112725.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112725.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-22 20:58:35 - Home - Today we posted binaries for sipXecs IP PBX release 401, the firstmaintenance release after our 40 release A full 110 issues werefixed and 35 more resolved in other ways since 400 - an amazingrecord in only 2 months Thanks to all the community members thattried the 40 release We are now focused on the next major release,called release 42 An updated roadmap is on the sipXecs Wiki and alist of issues against 42 can be found in the trackerhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112364.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112364.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - sipXecs called out as the leading open source solutionOnRelay , a technology company based in London, UK, announced itsselection of the SIPfoundry sipXecs solution as the basis for itshosted mobile-only communications system To quote: "By choosing theleading open source PBX sipXecs, OnRelay can offer a plug et playoffice communication system at an SME segment price-point" sipXecs isa 2nd generation open source unified communications solution that iseasy to use and made for non-technical people It scales where othersystems don't, it includes a complete Web based management sytem inopen source, it offers plug et play for all phones and gateways, and itincludes automatically configured redundancy options and multi-branchcapabilityhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93682.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93682.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - Now is the time to test SIP trunking interop with sipXecsSIP Trunking with sipXecsThe upcoming release 40 of sipXecs will include comprehensive NATtraversal and SIP trunking capabilities Remote workers areautomatically detected and sipXecs is able to compensate both fornear-end and far-end NATs Similar for SIP Trunking, sipXecscompensates for NAT and allows several ITSP accounts to be used Ouraim is to support the SIP Forum SIPconnect standard and interopactivities are currently on-goingA SIP trunking interop program is now open with 13 ITSPs alreadycertified More information is available on the SIP Trunking interoppage as well as on the sipXecs Wiki We are providing all thenecessary information to allow ITSPs to self-certify If you provideus with a test circuit we might be able to assist, but hurry, ourbandwidth is limitedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93681.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93681.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - Interesting article about open source PBX systems reaching 18% marketshareNo Jitter reported about an extensive study looking at a shift in thePBX market in North America towards open source solutions Accordingto this report the market for open source solutions became a lot moremain stream as solutions matured According to the study 75% of opensource PBX deployments are for companies with less than 50 employeesand with under 10 locations We predict that a shift towards largerenterprises with more branch locations will accelerate We see some ofthe same verticals mentioned in the study, namely education,government, retail, insurance and manufacturing, express increasinginterest in open source solutions that scale SIPfoundry positionedits solution for some time into the category of users that are moremainstream and look for a scalable and centrally managed PBX andunified communications solution that scales to many branch officesIt's going to be interesting how this all will end uphttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93680.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93680.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - For those who cannot wait: sipXecs release 40 is getting real closeAfter a ton of development it's getting real close sipXecs release40 has been in its final testing phase now for a while and there areonly a few issues left that need to be resolved before release It's abig release, probably the biggest ever sipXecs turned into a fullydistributed system with centralized management We also addedautomated NAT discovery and compensation far-end and near-end aswell as a comprehensive SIP trunking gateway FreeSWITCh is now fullyintegrated and serves as the new conferncing, auto-attendant and IVRmodule Stay tuned for the final releasehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93679.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93679.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - SkypeWhen Skype announced Skype for SIP beta applications were available weknew we had to apply Fortunately we received our acceptance tonightand within minutes the sipXecs SIP trunking gateway sipXbridge wasmaking calls out the Skype for SIP network Look for more on this whenwe release sipXecs 40 very soonhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93678.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93678.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - University of British ColumbiaThe University of British Columbia UBC recently launched its MySIPservice, based on sipXecs It is quite intriguing to consider using anopen source solution to potentially serve all of the UBC campus withits many thousand users with unified communications services TodayUBC has a trial running supporting some hundred users Turning theservice into a self-service portal, where students, staff and facultymembers can self subscribe and get setup on the system is a keyapplication UBC is looking at using the sipXecs Web Servicescapabilities Stay tuned and we will tell you morehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93677.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93677.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - We did some testing of the new sipXecs SIP trunking gateway andthought you might be interested in the results It's looking reallygood Initially we were shooting for a guaranteed sustained rate of200 simultaneous trunks The test we performed loaded the system with450 simultaneous trunk calls ~20 T1 trunks At that rate it consumed1625% total CPU 825% application load and a total of only 47 MB ofmemory This means that there is plenty of CPU capacity and memoryleft to run all the other sipXecs components in parallel with SIPtrunkinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93676.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93676.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - sipXecs is a distributed system that consists of several applicationcomponents that can even run on dedicated server hardwareThat soundsawfully complicated Let me show you how easy this is to use, what itis for, and what this means for scalability and resiliency Thefollowing will walk you through an initial installation and thenexplain the way you can create a distributed system that consists ofseveral servers All this is done without using a Linux command lineand exclusively relies on the Web based and centralized sipXconfigmanagement system Before we go there though we need to understand theconcept of a 'server role' The sipXconfig management system groupscertain functionality of the sipXecs system into 'roles' One orseveral of these 'roles' can then be instantiated on a particularserverYou will immediately see how this works belowhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93675.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93675.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - This is a big release Major new items include:1 SIP trunking and remote worker support far-end and near-end NATtraversal with support for an optionally redundant media relayfor media anchoring2 New voice conferencing solution based on the FreeSWITCH mediaserver Thanks to Michal Bielicki and Pawel Pierscionek fromVoiceWorks and of course the FreeSWITCH team Anthony Minessale,Michael Jerries and Brian West Conferencing solution supports HDVoice and offers dynamic Web based conference controls3 sipXecs cluster management now allows creating a fullydistributed system that is centrally managed4 New IVR / Auto-attendant also based on the FreeSWITCH mediaserver5 Support for 64 bit CPU architectures for both Interl/AMD as wellas PPC6 A new integrated reporting solution based on Jasper reports7 Source routing that allows call routing based on where the calloriginates ie in a branch office8 Lot's of updated phone and gateway profiles with plug et playmanagement Linksys, Cisco thanks to Sen Heng, Grandstream,Aastra, Polycom, Audiocodes, and others9 Improved operations including certificate management, log andsnapshot management, patch and upgrade management, DNS/DHCPconfiguration assistance, backup/restore to FTP, time and DSTmanagement10 Bulk provisioning of Counterpath Bria Professional phone11 Click-to-call from the user portalIn addition, the release includes a lot of fixes of previously brokenthings, including improvements to the RLS based presence server,performance improvements in the proxy, and probably a few things Iforgot Thanks to everyone who participated and a special thanks toour test team led by Raghuhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93674.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93674.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 16:55:15 - Home - There of course is a change log of things 'changed' during thedevelopment phase of sipXecs 40 It includes just about 600 itemsthat were tracked and resolved You should expect a bug fix release tocome out within the next 6 to 8 weeks that will resolve some of theremaining issues that were and will be found To track progresstowards 401 monitor our tracker This is also the place where youcan see whether an issue you might encounter is already known and inthe pipeline Make sure you vote on your most urgent issuesThe roadmap in our tracker also gives you an idea of release 42,which is our next major release The list currently includes too manyitems and needs to be scrubbed some more Make sure you vote on issuesimportant to you The roadmap on the Wiki will give some more detailson 42 once it is updatedAnd a last nuget: Pawel Pierscionek just published the first versionof a PHP API on top of the sipXecs SOAP interface The ACD wallboardapplication that comes with it is very nice and has been asked formany times Thanks Pawelhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93673.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93673.shtml