The only OSS project that really comes close to counting as a SBC (at least in its goals) is OpenSBC (http://www.opensourcesip.org:8080/clearspacex/community/opensbc), but I don't know that it is production-quality and I've never heard of anyone using it for anything important. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Thurman Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:15 PM To: VoiceOps Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Open source SBC Solutions? On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
It *really*, *really* depends on what you want to *do* with it.
As others have pointed out, there are many respects in which the OpenSER family of proxy stacks can perform some common functions of an SBC. There are also many respects in which they absolutely cannot, because at the end of the day they are proxies with limited UAS functionality, not fat, opaque B2BUAs loaded with features and ASIC-assisted media relay functionality, etc.
Good point Alex. I should say this is not for a ITSP. I work in Education in Oregon, and we are working to improve the communication between schools in the state. We currently have an ageing video conferencing set-up using H.323. We need something to act as an external presence for roaming users and inbound calls from other agencies for both voice and video. SIP would be preferred, and the H.323 video devices that support SIP will be converted. In the end, we would like to come up with a simple software solution that we could give to other educational agencies so we can all communicate. Purchasing an ACME is out of the question, not that I have priced them, but I don't think I can get one for free... (However, tax deductible donations are welcome =) Here is what need: - Voice and video support - Proxy - B2BUA - NAT Traversal - SIP - CDR These things would be nice: - H.323 support - Transcoding - Simplified Management What is not needed: - Auto Attendant - Conferencing - Stateful fail-over There seem to be a lot of solutions out there, and hopefully the experience of the list can help narrow down to what actually works. Thanks for you help! -Jonathan _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops