Re: [sr-dev] [SR-Users] Announcement: Kamailio is now systemd-rtc-server

On 01 Apr 2015, at 10:31, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> wrote: In addition this also totally removes the need for tools like Icinga, Nagios and Monit. If something happens, your systemd kernel will simply call you.

/O > *Simplefying* everything is the future! > > Cheers, > Daniel > > On 01/04/15 06:11, Alex Balashov wrote: >> For immediate release: >> >> ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2015)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based >> software >> vendor specialising in Kamailio-based service delivery solutions for the >> VoIP ITSP market, is pleased to announce that it, in collaboration with >> Red Hat Software and Ringfree Communications, has finalised the >> absorption of the Kamailio SIP Server into the 'systemd' system >> management >> platform for Linux. The new component shall be called >> 'systemd-rtc-server', >> or 'Systemd Real-Time Communication Server'. >> >> Alex Balashov, principal of Evariste and leader of the tri-vendor >> collaboration effort, will officially announce the handover of the reigns >> of the Kamailio project to the personal leadership of Lennart Poettering >> at the upcoming Systemd Real Time Communications World conference, to be >> held in Berlin on 27-29 May of this year. >> >> John Knight, Director of GNOME 3 Integration and part-time usability >> consultant at Ringfree Communications, based in Hendersonville, North >> Carolina,was quick to summarise the triumphs of the long-standing >> integration effort. >> >> Remarked Knight: >> >> "The industry has recognised for years that a SIP proxy is a basic >> building >> block in the 'init' subsystem of any Linux host. In this age of >> multimedia >> communication with voice and video, it was a travesty that systemd >> handled >> time synchronisation, network configuration, login management, logging, >> and console, but not SIP message routing." >> >> Sean McCord, a veteran partner at Atlanta-based integrator CyCORE & >> Docker, >> was quick to concur: >> >> "SIP calls are much easier to troubleshoot with binary logs. Combined >> with packet captures of TLS-encrypted WebRTC calls, systemd-journald >> is the ultimate call setup troubleshooting methodology of the responsive, >> kinetic enterprise." >> >> To support the integration of Kamailio into the ecosystem of every major >> Linux distribution, Evariste has released new 'dbus_api' and 'pulseaudio' >> modules for the project. >> >> Balashov stated, "We fully expect to use the D-Bus API to achieve >> gnome-session integration with systemd-rtc-server-usrloc, but we aren't >> going to leave Windows users behind; KamailioSvcHost.exe will support >> Domain Controller policies for G.722 in Active Directory forests." >> >> Despite an aggressive delivery timeline by the tri-vendor consortium >> behind >> systemd-rtc-server, industry commentators have widely lambasted the fact >> that it took so long for Kamailio to become integrated into systemd. Fred >> Posner, solutions architect at The Palner Group in Fort Lauderdale, >> Florida, >> recently wrote in a widely-publicised blog post: >> >> "sr-dev have been keeping their heads in the sand for too long. For years >> now, it has been completely obvious and self-evident to anyone with half >> a brain that all kinds of VoIP software should be included in systemd. >> It's a basic building block of the whole OS, having absorbed >> functionality >> previously provided by all kinds of packages like util-linux and >> wireless-tools." >> >> John Knight of Ringfree accepted the criticism readily, but advocated a >> forward-thinking orientation focused on breaking with the uncertainty of >> the past: >> >> "In the absence of a SIP component for routing calls to the PSTN, some >> people thought, 'systemd has no clear direction apart from the whims >> of its >> developers, and is a perpetually moving goal post.' Well, a SIP server >> should >> put an end to that whole discussion; that's exactly what was missing, >> and now >> that we have systemd-rtc-server, we've eliminated all doubts about the >> coherence, conceptual integrity and finality of systemd." >> >> >> > -- > Daniel-Constantin Mierla > http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda > Kamailio World Conference, May 27-29, 2015 > Berlin, Germany - http://www.kamailioworld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list > sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users