Re: GNU SIP Witch Announced

Good announcement! I'll get my eyes into it...

Aymeric MOIZARD / ANTISIP
amsip - http://www.antisip.com
osip2 - http://www.osip.org
eXosip2 - http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip/


On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Sugar wrote:

> I am sure most people did not yet know that there was a bruja de SIP, let 
> alone a bruja de SIP del GNU...
>
> SIP Witch is an official package of the GNU Project as of August 10th 2007. 
> GNU SIP Witch is also part of GNU Telephony & the GNU Telecom subsystem.
>
> GNU SIP Witch is a call and registration server for the SIP protocol. As a 
> call server it services call registration for SIP devices and destination 
> routing through SIP gateways.  GNU SIP Witch does not perform codec 
> operations or media proxying and thereby enables SIP endpoints to directly 
> peer negotiate call setting and process peer to peer media streaming even 
> when when multiple SIP Witch call nodes at multiple locations are involved. 
> This means GNU SIP Witch operates without introducing additional media 
> latency or offering a central point for media capture.
>
> GNU SIP Witch is designed to support network scaling of telephony services, 
> rather than the heavily compute-bound solutions we find in use today.  This 
> means a call node has a local authentication/registration database, and this 
> will be mirrored, so that any active call node in a cluster will be able to 
> accept and service a call.  This allows for the possibility of live failover 
> support in the future as well.
>
> GNU SIP Witch is not a SIP "router", and does not try to address the same 
> things as a project like iptel "Ser".  GNU SIP Witch is being designed to 
> create on-premise SIP telephone systems, telecenter servers, and Internet 
> hosted SIP telephone systems.  One important feature will include use of URI 
> routing to support direct peer to peer calls between service domains over the 
> public internet without needing mediation of an intermediary "service 
> provider" so that people can publish and call sip: uri's unconstrained.  GNU 
> SIP Witch is about freedom to communicate and the removal of artifical 
> barriers and constraints whether imposed by monopoly service providers or by 
> governments.
>
> Resources for supporting GNU SIP Witch will be consolidated and handled 
> principally through Savannah using the existing GNU Telecom subsystem project 
> found there (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnucomm) as a central point of 
> contact. This sub-project is being reorganized for this purpose.
>
> GNU SIP Witch depends on the UCommon library, which may merge with and become 
> GNU Common C++ 2.0 early next year.  CVS for and new distributions of UCommon 
> will be found in the GNU Telecom project on an interim basis until then.  GNU 
> SIP Witch also uses libeXosip2 and GNU oSIP, and these may be found at their 
> respective sites.  GNU SIP Witch is licensed under the GNU General Public 
> License V3 or later.
>