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Summary of Devel Meeting, Berlin 2010

July 6th, 2010

Last Kamailio and SIP Express Router (SER) Developers’ Meeting took place in Berlin, June 8, 2010. Hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, the event gathered 16 people, from core developers to users of the projects, as well as developers involved in related projects such as SEMS and OpenIMSCore.

Main topics discussed covered the evolution so far, new features in the development version, planning of next major release and future development.

A summary of the event was uploaded to wiki page:

Presentation at ClueCon 2010

June 15th, 2010

Daniel-Constantin Mierla will give a presentation about using Kamailio and FreeSWITCH together to build large unified communication platforms at ClueCon 2010. While the primary communication channel these days is voice, instant messaging and presence gain more users day by day.

ClueCon is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The event takes place in Chicago, IL, USA, during August 3-5, 2010.

See more details at:

Looking forward to meeting you there!

Meeting us during July and August

June 14th, 2010

The summer was announced hot for our project. Starting with the SIPit26 in Stockholm during May, several events followed in a row:

The series of events related to project continue during the summer with:

Whether you participate or not to these events, we can meet in the area during dinner time and discuss about Kamailio and SIP Express Router, if you are interested then just drop an email to miconda [at] gmail.com.

Debian and Ubuntu APT Repositories

June 12th, 2010

Courtesy of Jon Bonilla and SIPdoc.net, latest Kamailio 3.0.x can be installed via apt package manager from repositories hosted by the project. You can find details specific for Debian Etch, Squeeze and Lenny, plus Ubuntu Lucid at:

http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/packages:debs

Being hosted and maintained by members of our development team, the repositories are updated frequently, giving instant access to latest stable snapshots. Enjoy!

Kamailio Booth at LinuxTag 2010

June 3rd, 2010

The project has a booth at LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany, June 9-12, 2010.

Location is Hall 7.2, stand 106, near by StrongSwan project and Snom.

Come and meet some of us, we will be glad to chat about Kamailio, SIP Router, SEMS, SIP and VoIP in general. Depending on the day, you can meet at stand:

We will have a demo running latest version and nice flyers to show the capabilities of Kamailio based platforms.

Kamailio Presentation at LinuxTag 2010

June 2nd, 2010

Henning Westerholt will talk about Geographical Redundant VoIP Sytems with Kamailio, on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 11:20am, at LinuxTag 2010, in Berlin, Germany.

The presentation is about designing and implementation of geographical redundant Voice over IP systems with the Kamailio SIP router. It goes through an overview about the 1&1 voice over IP backend, some performance requirements for carrier grade VoIP networks and real-world measurements.

Then are some key concepts for building a geographical redundant system are presented. This are for example partitioning of the user base and network load with different means like anycast IP and means of maintaining a shared database state for subscriber data and registration information. Finally some common problems in building bigger VoIP clusters and solutions approaches are discussed.

VoIPToday Kamailio Interview

June 1st, 2010

VoIPToday has published an interview with Daniel-Constantin Mierla, co-founder and core developer of Kamailio (OpenSER) project. Read it at:

Kamailio and Freeswitch Integration, Jun 2, 2010

May 29th, 2010

On the 2nd of June, 2010, Daniel-Constantin Mierla will speak at FreeSWITCH Weekly Conference about integration of Kamailio and FreeSWITCH. The draft of agenda is:

  • Goals of Kamailio, how it differentiates from FreeSWITCH and why using them together creates a very powerful framework to build large VoIP systems.
  • Kamailio for sip routing and FreeSWITCH as media server (conferencing, voicemail, IVR, announcements)
  • FreeSWITCH as a B2BUA for Kamailio (topology hiding, transcoding, call interrupt detection)
  • FreeSWITCH as prepaid engine for Kamailio
  • Load balancing FreeSWITCH servers with Kamailio
  • Q & A Session

You can find details about the time and how to call in conference at:

Kamailio at Amoocon 2010

May 28th, 2010

For the second year, Amoocon takes place in Rostock, Germany, June 4-6, 2010.

Daniel-Constantin Mierla has two presentation about Kamailio – SIP Router project:

First talk focuses on asynchronous processing capabilities of this SIP server and what is new in latest version:

  • asynchronous TCP
  • asynchronous SIP message processing
  • asynchronous message queues
  • asynchronous TLS
  • new features in 3.0.x and devel versions

The second talk goes through LUA API exported by this SIP server, which allow building new fancy SIP applications without messing with C coding or configuration file language.

More about what is new in upcoming 3.1.0 and LUA API:

If you participate to Amoocon event and want to meet, drop an email to miconda [at] gmail.com.

Kamailio v3.0.2 Released

May 27th, 2010

Kamailio v3.0.2 is out – a minor release including fixes in code and documentation since v3.0.1 – configuration file and database compatibility is preserved…

Kamailio (OpenSER) 3.0.2 is based on the latest version of GIT branch 3.0, therefore those running 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 are advised to upgrade — there is no change required to be done to configuration file or database.

Source tarballs are available at:

http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/3.0.2/src/

Detailed changelog:

http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/3.0.2/ChangeLog

Download via GIT:

# git clone –depth 1 git://git.sip-router.org/sip-router kamailio
# cd kamailio
# git checkout -b kamailio_3.0 origin/kamailio_3.0

Binaries and packages will be uploaded at:

http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/3.0.2/

Modules’ documentation:

http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/3.0.x/

What is new in 3.0.x release series is summarized in the announcement of v3.0.0:

http://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-openser-v3.0.0-release-notes/

If you are eager to see what’s up to next major release (v3.1.0), visit:

http://sip-router.org/wiki/features/new-in-devel

Note: Kamailio is the new name of OpenSER project, name changed on July 28, 2008, due to trademark issues. First version under Kamailio name was 1.4.0. Source code for releases 3.0.0+ is hosted on GIT repository at http://sip-router.org. Older versions will continue to use OpenSER name. Project site and SVN repository on SourceForge.net still use the old name OpenSER.