Freeswitch Declares First Release Candidate

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I am happy to announce the immediate availability of FreeSWITCH 1.0 “Phoenix“ (Release Candidate 1). The Phoenix symbolizes the rebirth of a new era and I hope this new release will be the first step in a new age of voice-over-IP development we can all benefit from.

http://www.freeswitch.org/node/108

Testing is anticipated to take a month or so (and your help is needed if you want to download and test).

I've worked with the many of the freeswitch team over the last 6 months or so and it's a fantastic telco-grade product created by a very talented team. There's definitely a place for it in the VoIP User infrastructure - we have it already in the rack at Telehouse London, destined to be our new media gateway, but it's not yet been lit up.

There are plenty of uses for Freeswitch in telco networks where Asterisk doesn't quite make the grade in terms of a hyper-scalable architecture. Additionally, unlike Asterisk, Freeswitch will work internally with wideband codecs. Early stage testing has shown a performance benefit over Asterisk, until now the only opensource option for media proxying/transcoding, of a factor of 8-10 (3000 concurrent channels with media on a dual woodcrest 2.0 GHz).

There are endpoints for SIP, IAX2, Jingle (GoogleTalk) Woomera, sound cards and Wanpipe TDM cards making it one of the most universal gateway devices out there, opensource or commercial.

Congratulations to the Freeswitch team (notably Anthony Minesale, Mike Jerris, Brian West and Michal Bielicki) for getting a feature-rich release candidate out in just 2 years of development.

Reply from martyndavies on Apr 02, 2008 - 04:37 PM

... and as of yesterday release candidate 2 seems to be out.

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