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

[Victor Pascual Avila]

April 1st? ;-)

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:44 AM, SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the diaries of the amazing Alex-Man,
> Chapter 4 Page 1, Vol 15.
>
> Congrats ;)
>
> 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
>>
>> Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct)
>> Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/
>>
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