1 Apr
2015
1 Apr
'15
6:11 a.m.
For immediate release:
ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2015)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based software
vendor specialising in Kamailio-based service delivery solutions for the
VoIP ITSP market, is pleased to announce that it, in collaboration with
Red Hat Software and Ringfree Communications, has finalised the
absorption of the Kamailio SIP Server into the 'systemd' system management
platform for Linux. The new component shall be called 'systemd-rtc-server',
or 'Systemd Real-Time Communication Server'.
Alex Balashov, principal of Evariste and leader of the tri-vendor
collaboration effort, will officially announce the handover of the reigns
of the Kamailio project to the personal leadership of Lennart Poettering
at the upcoming Systemd Real Time Communications World conference, to be
held in Berlin on 27-29 May of this year.
John Knight, Director of GNOME 3 Integration and part-time usability
consultant at Ringfree Communications, based in Hendersonville, North
Carolina,was quick to summarise the triumphs of the long-standing
integration effort.
Remarked Knight:
"The industry has recognised for years that a SIP proxy is a basic building
block in the 'init' subsystem of any Linux host. In this age of multimedia
communication with voice and video, it was a travesty that systemd handled
time synchronisation, network configuration, login management, logging,
and console, but not SIP message routing."
Sean McCord, a veteran partner at Atlanta-based integrator CyCORE & Docker,
was quick to concur:
"SIP calls are much easier to troubleshoot with binary logs. Combined
with packet captures of TLS-encrypted WebRTC calls, systemd-journald
is the ultimate call setup troubleshooting methodology of the responsive,
kinetic enterprise."
To support the integration of Kamailio into the ecosystem of every major
Linux distribution, Evariste has released new 'dbus_api' and 'pulseaudio'
modules for the project.
Balashov stated, "We fully expect to use the D-Bus API to achieve
gnome-session integration with systemd-rtc-server-usrloc, but we aren't
going to leave Windows users behind; KamailioSvcHost.exe will support
Domain Controller policies for G.722 in Active Directory forests."
Despite an aggressive delivery timeline by the tri-vendor consortium behind
systemd-rtc-server, industry commentators have widely lambasted the fact
that it took so long for Kamailio to become integrated into systemd. Fred
Posner, solutions architect at The Palner Group in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
recently wrote in a widely-publicised blog post:
"sr-dev have been keeping their heads in the sand for too long. For years
now, it has been completely obvious and self-evident to anyone with half
a brain that all kinds of VoIP software should be included in systemd.
It's a basic building block of the whole OS, having absorbed functionality
previously provided by all kinds of packages like util-linux and
wireless-tools."
John Knight of Ringfree accepted the criticism readily, but advocated a
forward-thinking orientation focused on breaking with the uncertainty of
the past:
"In the absence of a SIP component for routing calls to the PSTN, some
people thought, 'systemd has no clear direction apart from the whims of its
developers, and is a perpetually moving goal post.' Well, a SIP server
should
put an end to that whole discussion; that's exactly what was missing,
and now
that we have systemd-rtc-server, we've eliminated all doubts about the
coherence, conceptual integrity and finality of systemd."
--
Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC
303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30346
United States
Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct)
Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/