Steve Sokol USA Digium 6th Conference - ElastixWorld 2011 Asterisk Update: Asterisk 10 And beyond Asterisk Update: Asterisk 10 y mas

1. The Asterisk Update
Asterisk 10 and Beyond
Steve Sokol & Malcolm Davenport
Asterisk Marketing, Evangelism & Product Management
Digium, Inc.

2. What is Asterisk?
 Communications Engine
 Open Source Project
 2+ Million Downloads Each Year
 Over 1 Million Production Deployments
 80,000 Community Members
 Under Development Since 1999
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3. What Does Asterisk Do?
 Plumbing:
 Protocol Implementations  Session Management
 Media I/O  Intermediary Services
 Media Management
 Applications
 Call Routing (“Dialplan”)  Automated Attendant
 Voicemail  Directory
 Conference Bridge  Call Parking
 Queues
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4. How Do You Use Asterisk?
 As An Application Until Itself:
 Hand-Crafted “One-Off” Implementations
 Dialplan Script Programming + Configuration Files
 PBX, VoIP Gateway, IVR, ACD, Etc.
 As A Tool-Kit / Engine:
 Use External Interfaces: AGI, AMI
 “Wrap” Asterisk To Manage
 Build Custom Applications & Solutions
 Create Communications Products
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5. Elastix and Asterisk
 Asterisk = Plumbing, Engine
 VoIP and PSTN Connectivity
 Session (Call) Management
 Basic Applications
 Elastix = Operational / Business Logic
 Call Flow and Treatment
 PBX Logic
 Business Rules and Policies
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6. What’s New(ish) In Asterisk?
 Asterisk 1.8 LTS
 Released 1 Year Ago (AstriCon 2010)
 First Long Term Support (LTS) Release Since 1.4
 4 Year Support Commitment
 1 Additional Year of Security Fixes
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7. Asterisk 1.8 New Features
 Secure Calling With SIP
 Secure RTP (SRTP) For Media
 Transport-Layer Security (TLS) For Signaling
 Security Event Framework
 Framework To Catch Abuse / Intrusion / Malicious Stuff
 Just A Framework As Of 1.8 – No Tools Implemented
 IPv6 Support
 SIP Support For IPv6
 Other Channels / Services Coming Soon
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8. Asterisk 1.8 New Features
 Calendar Integration
 Access To Calendar Systems (iCal, CalDav, Exchange)
 Dialplan Functions For Calendar Access, Manipulation
 Channel Event Logging (CEL)
 Detailed Call History Records
 Stores Each Action That Takes Place On The System
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9. Asterisk 1.8 New Features
 XMPP Distributed System State
 Share state information between Asterisk systems
 Message Waiting Information (MWI)
 Device State (Phone, Bridge, Parking, Etc.)
 ISDN Features
 Advice Of Charge – How much is this call costing
 Call Completion Supplementary Services (aka Camp On)
 Connected Party Identification (Caller ID on steroids)
 All of these also work with SIP
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10. Asterisk 1.8 New Features
 Google Talk/Voice/Chat Calling
 Call To / From Google Voice Users
 Use Google Voice As A Trunk (sometimes)
 Pitch Shift
 For Fun And Profit
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11. Asterisk 10: New Naming Plan (again)
 Asterisk 10?
 What happened to Asterisk 1.10?
 People think 1.10 sounds strange
 People keep asking if it should be Asterisk 2.0
 When will it be released?
 Announced at AstriCon 2011 (last week)
 To be released this month (November 2011)
 What’s the next version of Asterisk going to be called?
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12. Asterisk 11
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13. Asterisk 10: Building For The Future
 2011 is “a rebuilding year” as they say in sports.
 Asterisk 10 is a Standard Release (1 Year Support)
 Upgrading the plumbing for an HD world
 Creating infrastructure for future enhancements
 Increasing:
 Performance
 Stability
 Interoperability
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14. Asterisk 10: Media Engine
 New HD Media Engine
 Better than telephony-grade audio
 The ability to add many more codecs (audio and
video)
 The ability to add more complex codecs (setup
parameters)
 All Kinds Of Sampling Rates:
 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 44.1, 48, 96, 192 kHz
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15. Asterisk 10: New Codecs
 New Codecs
 Ultra Wide-Band Speex Codec
 Skype’s super-wideband SILK
 Pass-through support for CELT
 Add-On Modules For PolycomCodecs:
 Siren 7
 Siren 14
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16. DEMO:
HD Calling
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17. Thanks!
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18. Asterisk 10: HD Conferencing
 New Conference Bridge App: ConfBridge
 Supports all new media features
 Supports all new sampling rates
 Can be configured to fit your needs
 DTMF menus
 Access controls
 Does NOT down-sample or reduce quality
 Supports the highest available quality for HD
clients
 Converts to telephony grade for legacy gear
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19. DEMO:
HD Conferencing
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20. Asterisk 10: Video Conferencing
 Video Conferencing!
 Presents one video stream to all participants
 Marked User (tagged when entering)
 Current Speaker (VAD)
 DTMF Selection
 Must use the same codec (i.e. no trans-coding, trans-
rating or scaling)
 Need video gurus to extend this feature, add hardware
support, trans-coding, trans-rating, scaling.
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21. DEMO:
Video Conferencing
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22. Asterisk 10: Fax
 Fax Improvements
 T.38 Gateway Support
 Send faxes end-to-end (no store/forward) from T.38
sources to analog destinations
 And the other way around
 Better for billing, delivery confirmation
 Fax still sucks and should go away
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23. Asterisk 10: Text Messaging
 Text Message Routing
 Asterisk has been able to send and receive text
messages for a while.
 Pretty good XMPP client support
 Limited SIP MESSAGE support
 Adds the ability to route text messages outside the
context of a call.
 First step toward making Asterisk a multi-protocol text
router
 XMPP / SIP SIMPLE gateway
 Would have done Skype but…
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24. Asterisk 10: Module Deprecation
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25. Asterisk 10: Other New Features
 Lots Of Other Small Improvements
 SQLite3 instead of Berkley DB
 Conversion utility that converts from AstDB
 Roll-back tool is also included
 Requires SQLite3 library
 IPv6 Support For Onboard HTTP Server
 Lua routing engine enhancements
 Read the Wiki page for more fun:
 http://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+10
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26. Asterisk 10 And Elastix
 Some cool things that you can do with Asterisk 10
features:
 HD Calling
 HD Trunking
 New Conferencing Module / Application
 HD Conferencing
 Video Conferencing
 Complete Fax Support
 XMPP and SIP SIMPLE Integration
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27. Asterisk 11 Requests?
 What does the Elastix community want to see:
 Improved
 Added
 Removed (?)
 Clarified
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28. Thanks!
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