Asterisk SCF, A New Open Source Telephony Project, Will Simplify Creation of Complex Communications Systems

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Digium, the asterisk company announced the Asterisk SCF, Asterisk Scalable Communications Framework at the Astricon 2010. Digium along with the Asterisk Open Source community will work together to provide real time communication solutions encompassing voice, video and text to accommodate today's needs of  always online community, business or otherwise.
The Asterisk SCF platform will support, as a part of its basic architecture, the full range of real-time IP communications, including video, multi-channel wideband and ultra-wideband audio, chat, desktop sharing and other media types that may arise in the future.
"The Asterisk community asked for easier ways to use Asterisk in larger and more complex applications, They want to make massive scalability and fault tolerance simple, they want rich APIs for developing applications, and they want performance that effectively utilizes modern systems and architectures. Rather than trying to 'grow' Asterisk to address these areas, Digium and a committee of Asterisk developers decided that a companion product would be the most effective approach, since it allowed us to consider the widest range of tools, platforms and architectures." said Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and Digium's founder and chief technology officer.
A version of Asterisk SCF for early adopters is now available at the Asterisk website (http://www.asterisk.org). The project will evolve aggressively during the next 12 months. Digium invites developers interested in contributing or wanting to learn more about Asterisk SCF to visit http://www.asterisk.org today.
The Asterisk community and the Digium also pointed out that this does not mean the Asterisk SCF is not a replacement for the Asterisk, the world's most widely used open source voice communications platform. Digium and the Asterisk community are committed to the continued development and support of Asterisk, the telecommunications software.  This commitment is emphasized by the recent announcement of the release of the next long-term support version of Asterisk, Asterisk 1.8 LTS.

AstriCon 2010 under way.

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"Future of Open Source Communications", A Keynote By Digium At AstriCon 2010.

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Digium revealed today that Kevin Fleming, director of software technologies, will be delivering a keynote speech cum presentation regarding the future of open source communications software at the AstriCon 2010, which will be the  seventh annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition, taking place from October 26-28, 2010, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
I plan to be at the conference and I will attend presentation. Fleming's keynote takes place on Wednesday, October 27 at 9:00 a.m. ET. This is not the first such keynote and seem to be a tradition of AstriCon. The last was presented by Sean Michael Kerner, "The Future of Open Source VoIP is Asterisk 1.6" in 2007.

As we all know, Asterisk is the forefront of Open source telephony and I have been attending the conference every year since the beginning. This is the place where telephony developers, telephony and unified communications experts, resellers and VARs, and Asterisk enthusiasts come together to gain and share knowledge.

"Asterisk has been an industry-changing open source project that has grown with the support of an active and thriving community, We believe that the news we're sharing at AstriCon will further the disruption of the communications industry, as Asterisk did with its original release, and demonstrate Digium's commitment to taking open source communications in an exciting direction for the Asterisk Community." said Fleming, who has helped manage and define Asterisk's direction since he joined Digium in 2005

You can find additional information and open registration are available at http://www.astricon.net.
Digium

AstriCon 2010 Early bird Discount (20%)

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If you are planing to attend AstriCon 2010, you should, and it the time to grab a good chunk of discounts. All AstriCon Early birds can save 20%! Every bit counts in these days. Use discount code EARLYBIRD at the ASTRICON registration site.

October 26-28, 2010
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD
See you there!