[KLUG Driftwood] VOCAL: Linux VOIP

[Adam Williams]

>http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/15/0142226.shtml?tid=99           
>VOCAL:  Linux VOIP
>An Anonymous Coward writes: "While most
>Open Source projects are applications and
>utilities intended for single users, David Bryan
>and David Kelly did something different. They
>created an infrastructure project -- a VoIP
>hone system that either can run on a single
>box attached to a couple of IP phones or can
>scale up to a network of hosts processing
>hundreds of calls between thousands of users.

This is accomplished via a technique called "IAX"

> In this informative technical article at
>ELJonline, Bryan and Kelly detail the 'Vovida
>Open Communications Applications Library'
>('VOCAL') project, a fully functional phone
>system that can run on either Red Hat Linux
>or Sun Solaris." 

There are now a couple of these IP-PBXs,  but for most of them hardware
support remains a serious problem.