[SR-Users] Announcement: Kamailio is now systemd-rtc-server

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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>
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