News from Industry

It’s not yet clear when I can start working on a new-generation Torrus, but here are some nice software projects which would probably inspire the new design, or probably be part of the new design. I haven’t looked into them in depth though.

• Bosun is a distributed monitoring system produced by StackExchange. It uses distributed collector agents which write data into OpenTSDB. Bosun and its collector are written in Go, and OpenTSDB is written in Java.
• InfluxDB is a time-series database written in Go.

and yes, the new project will most probably have its core in Go. But the SNMP discovery engine will most probably remain in Perl because of a big list of supported vendors.

Filed under: Programming Tagged: monitoring, network management, network monitoring, torrus

CEO Mike Leuthner discusses Phonami’s new Admin panel, allowing customers to activate Monster PBX accounts, setup billing, add and remove users directly from Google Apps. 

SendHub co-founder Ryan Pfeffer discusses a product overview, Kazoo at scale, and supporting WebRTC and Mobile.

2600hz and Voxbone discussing WebRTC at WeWork San Francisco, ….sorry for the poor audio quality

2600hz WebRTC Meetup at WeWork, San Francisco, CA from James Solada

Want to become your own carrier!  We’ve launched an incredible new website dedicated to partners, which can be found at partner.2600hz.com. The new site provides information, resources and contact information for VoIP partners interested in Hosted PBX, and soon, Hosted PBX + Mobile.

What does this mean for you? You’ll find new information about our product offerings and how to market immediately and scale quickly.

On our new partner website, you’ll find resources on:

• Hosted PBX – Providing small and medium businesses a fixed-line telecom infrastructure without heavy financial investment. There is no bulky hardware to install or maintain, instead the infrastructure is in the cloud.
• Coming Soon - Hosted PBX + Mobile – We’ve integrated our mobile services with Sprint, providing a native integration with mobile devices.  Our platform will not function as an over-the-top application, instead transforming a cellular phone into a SIP endpoint.

In conjunction with this website launch, we’re introducing a whole bunch of new and exciting features and benefits that include:

• Advanced Functionality - Conferencing, call recording, automatic failover, find-me-follow-me, hunt groups, voicemail-to-email and more. For a complete list of features, visit http://partner.2600hz.com/html/features.html
• White labeling – We provide clients the ability to whitelabel our product as their own and go to market. We also provide white-label documentation including logos, email templates, pricing and restrictions.
• Bring Your Own Device - We enable you to port customer’s existing mobile devices to 2600hz. BYOD gives you the flexibility to fit a customer’s budget by utilizing existing devices.
• Flexible Contracts - We give you the ability to structure fixed PBX, and soon mobile pricing as you see fit. You can offer customers monthly or yearly contracts and set margins with bundled packages.
• Kazoo Integration - Developed by 2600hz, Kazoo employs a cloud-based model designed for cutting edge telecom infrastructures. Kazoo can be deployed in a private cloud environment or can be utilized in a hosted cloud environment.
• Integration - Kazoo is built on over 140 APIs that allow you to integrate with carriers, third-party software vendors, and build your own complex integrations.

Become a 2600hz Partner Today!

Want to take the first step? Contact sales@2600hz.com or sign up today at http://partner.2600hz.com/html/contact.html. We will give you in-depth training and support you as you build your business. Become a valued partner and own the competition!

Also read the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/11/prweb12292816.htm

Voxbeam is providing worldwide PSTN connectivity at competitive rates, and it allows you to use any Caller ID, which is very convenient for call forwarding. The Voxbeam gateway authenticates the clients by their IP addresses only, so you need a static IP address, and no username or password are required. The FreeSWITCH configuration shown below allows you to control which destinations should be routed to Voxbeam. With a bit of further extension, you can also control which destinations would use different tariff plans at Voxbeam. This configuration covers only their Standard pricing plan. Here INTERNALDOMAIN is a name of the SIP realm that is used for registered users. We assume that the variable “outbound_caller_id_number” is set elsewhere above in the dialplan.

--- File: ip_profiles/external/voxbeam.xml --- <include>   <gateway name="voxbeam_outbound">     <param name="realm" value="sbc.voxbeam.com" />     <param name="register" value="false" /> <!-- important, so that your caller ID is transmitted properly -->     <param name="caller-id-in-from" value="true"/>   </gateway> </include> --- File: dialplan/INTERNALDOMAIN/05_pstn_outbound.xml --- <include> <!-- Express destination and caller numbers in E.164 notation without leading plus sign. Note that we treat numbers with one leading zero as local Swiss numbers -->   <extension name="pstn_normalize" continue="true">     <condition field="destination_number" expression="^00([1-9]\d+)$" break="never">       <action inline="true" application="set" data="e164_dest=$1"/>     </condition>     <condition field="destination_number" expression="^0([1-9]\d+)$" break="never">       <action inline="true" application="set" data="e164_dest=41$1"/>     </condition>     <condition field="${outbound_caller_id_number}" expression="^00([1-9]\d+)$" break="never">       <action inline="true" application="set" data="e164_cid=$1"/>     </condition>     <condition field="${outbound_caller_id_number}" expression="^0([1-9]\d+)$" break="never">       <action inline="true" application="set" data="e164_cid=41$1"/>     </condition>   </extension> <!-- Here we define that calls to Russia and Ukraine should go through Voxbeam -->   <extension name="pstn_select_itsp" continue="true">     <condition field="${e164_dest}" expression="^(7|38)" break="on-true">       <action inline="true" application="set" data="outbound_itsp=voxbeam"/>     </condition>   </extension>   <!-- send matched calls to Voxbeam -->   <extension name="pstn_voxbeam">     <condition field="${outbound_itsp}" expression="^voxbeam$" break="on-false">       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${e164_cid}"/>       <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/voxbeam_outbound/0011103${e164_dest}"/>     </condition>   </extension> <!-- send everything else to Sipcall.ch -->   <extension name="pstn_sipcall">     <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(0\d+)$">       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}"/>       <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/sipcall/$1"/>     </condition>   </extension> </include>

This is a very simple example, and a bit more logic can be introduced, such as looking up in some kind of a database for least cost routing, and so on.

 

Filed under: Networking Tagged: freeswitch, pbx, sip, voip

The original script is found here: http://www.snip2code.com/Snippet/79027/How-to-install-Go-1-3-in-debian-wheezy

The original script is a bit dated, and now 1.3-1 is the latest version:

## File: go1.3-install-deb.sh
apt-get install devscripts build-essential
apt-get build-dep golang-go

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/golang/golang_1.3-3.dsc
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/golang/golang_1.3.orig.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/golang/golang_1.3-3.debian.tar.xz

dpkg-source -x golang_1.3-3.dsc
cd golang-1.3/
debuild -us -uc
cd ..
dpkg -i \
golang-go_1.3-3_amd64.deb \
golang-src_1.3-3_amd64.deb \
golang-go-linux-amd64_1.3-3_amd64.deb \
vim-syntax-go_1.3-3_all.deb

echo Finished

Filed under: Programming Tagged: go, golang

Drives with problems:

1. KingSpec 16GB (Model Number: KingSpec KSM-mSATA.7i-016MJ, Firmware Revision:  SVN454): quite often, the kernel times out to boot at the start.
2. SuperSSpeed S238: with the old firmware, TRIM operation erased the boot sector. The newer firmware disables TRIM.

Drives without problems (everything works fine with TRIM)

1. MyDigitalSSD Super Boot Drive (Model Number:  SB mSATA SSD, Firmware Revision: S9FM01.8)
2. SanDisk X110 (Model Number: SanDisk SD6SF1M032G1022I, Firmware Revision: X231200)
3. Kingston Now (Model Number: KINGSTON SMS200S330G, Firmware Revision: 524ABBF0)

The testing procedure is quite simple: a background process is massively creating and deleting a small file, and another process calls fstrim every few seconds. Then the health of the filesystem is checked after an hour or so.

while true; do echo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >xxx; done & while true; do fstrim -v /; sleep 10; done

 

Filed under: Hardware Tagged: linux, pcengines

PC Engines’ APU board has its mPCIe slot 2 wired to the SIM card socket, which allows using any standard mPCIe 3G modem. Most of modern modems are quite expensive, but there are plenty of Sierra Wireless MC8775 cards at aliexpress.com for around $20 apiece. This is a decent hardware, manufactured around 2007-2011. It doesn’t deliver the highest UMTS speeds possible, but still can be used in situations where speed is unimportant.

The cards that I bought came with firmware version 1_1_8_15, dated 2007/07/17. I didn’t test it fully, but there are some failure reports in the internet.

The firmware upgrade requires an adapter with a SIM card slot. I got mine from this eBay seller.

This page describes the firmware upgrade process. The links to istudioz.net are still valid, but you need to remove # (%23) from the URLs. The 3G watcher for the AirCard 875 is unavailable at its original place, but easy to find with Google. I got mine at this site. The upgrade requires a 32bit Windows machine, and takes about 20 minutes. I upgraded the firmware successfully with my old Vista laptop.

Also I bought the 3G antenna and the pigtail cable at aliexpress.

After inserting the 3G modem into mPCIe slot 2 and booting Debian Wheezy, the device was immediately visible as three serial USB interfaces (/dev/ttyUSB0  /dev/ttyUSB1  /dev/ttyUSB2). ttyUSB0 is used for data, and ttyUSB2 can be used for controlling the device with AT commands. The command “AT^CARDMODE” will tell if the SIM card is inserted, and “AT!GSTATUS?” displays the network status information. “AT+GMR” displays the current firmware version. Ctrl-a Ctrl-x sequence will finish the picocom session.

apt-get install -y wvdial picocom picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB2 AT^CARDMODE AT!GSTATUS? AT+GMR Ctrl-a Ctrl-x

The following /etc/wvdial.conf works with Sunrise.ch 3G network:

[Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Phone = *99# Username = '' Password = '' Ask Password = 0 Stupid Mode = 1 Compuserve = 0 Idle Seconds = 0 ISDN = 0 Auto DNS = 1

Execute “wvdial” comand from the command line, and it should immediately connect to the internet. The rest is easy: you can place wvdial into a startup script and execute it automatically at boot time.

Filed under: Networking Tagged: 3G, GSM, linux, networking, pcengines, UMTS

This is a simple test that gives you an estimation of audio conferencing scalability of FreeSWITCH on your hardware.

1. You need one or two FreeSWITCH servers, and one of them should answer to sip:moh@IPADDR:5080. The fastest way is to install this FreeSWITCH configuration: https://github.com/xlab1/voip_qos_probe
2. Edit vars.xml and remove G722 codec (or leave or replace it, if you want to test transcoding performance at the same time).
3. Start FreeSWITCH: service freeswitch start
4. Create conference participants by calling the MOH extension on the remote or the same server. This command will add a few dozens of participants in one go: timeout 2 sh -c "while true; do fs_cli -x 'conference xx dial sofia/internal/moh@IPADDR:5080'; done"
5. check the number of participants: fs_cli -x 'show channels'
6. run “top” or “mpstat -P ALL 1″ to see the CPU load, and add more batches of participants.

This test differs from real world because in a real conference, one speaks and others are listening. Here everyone speaks at the same time. FreeSWITCH evaluates the energy level to find the active speaker before replicating their voice, so I guess the real conference would take less CPU power (need to look into the source code).

Some test results: PC Engines APU platform with 50 conference participants had the CPU usage about 60%. A single core VPS at digitalocean.com was busy at around 50% during a test with 200 participants.

UPD1: (thanks bob bowles) Call out to yourself and monitor the sound quality with your own ear:

fs_cli -x 'conference human dial sofia/external/user@sip.domain.com'
Filed under: Networking Tagged: freeswitch, voip

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Aprile 2014

• Provider in uso 4080 di cui 2450 registrati per ricevere le chiamate
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Novità:

• Riassunto delle impostazioni per Liberailvoip http://blog.liberailvoip.it/2014/04/16/parametri-di-connessione-liberailvoip/
• Impostazioni avanzate http://blog.liberailvoip.it/2014/04/28/hack-liberailvoip-settings/
• Fix per le chiamate in ingresso per il provider Olimontel
• Fix Bug SSL

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• Miglioramento del Monitor
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• Report via mail di eventuali problemi riscontrati sul proprio account
• Supporto ai BLF sui telefoni voip
• Supporto VPN sui telefoni VoIP

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• Avviso dello stato dell’account in home page
• Passaggio di tutto il sito in SSL
• DashBoard dello stato globale dei servizi

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