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Custom Communication Apps

My brother and business partner Gabe will be helping to lead a discussion on FreeSWITCH and Asterisk at the the Utah Open Source Conference tomorrow.

Gabe is the CTO of our small startup company (Izeni), and our team has built, and continues to build, some pretty cool projects based on these (and other) open source telephony technologies.

Some of the recent FreeSWITCH customization projects we’ve built for our clients include a custom call center that can handle up to 100 concurrent agents on commodity hardware, and a distributed SIP load tester that’s capable of pushing thousands of concurrent SIP calls (suitable for stress testing extremely large telephony infrastructures).

But those are just 2 examples of the many ways a company can customize a free software phone switch to enhance their current products or services with open source telephony. Whether you need a hosted IVR (Interactive Voice Response) solution, or just some method to bridge phone calls, record calls, make outbound calls, etc; FreeSWITCH and Asterisk are up to the task.

Anyway, if you’re in Utah and are interested in learning more about Open Source telephony, you should come by tomorrow to check out the discussion. You can also can review the (expansive) FreeSWITCH and Asterisk feature sets. And if you need some phone-related development done for your company, that kind of work is highly specialized, easy to outsource, and right up our alley. We’d love to help!

Along those same lines is something that’s been on my mind lately: I’d be interested in starting a Utah FreeSWITCH Users Group, originally meeting in only in Utah Valley, but hopefully spreading as the FreeSWITCH project comes into more common usage. If you’re local and would be interesting in participating (or leading), please let me know.

And if you think of some way you’d like to have your product interact with phones, text messages, even IM –that’s just what we do. We’d love to help you work through it –even if it’s just to help you see what’s possible.

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Utah Mobile Developers Group

I’m way excited about the Utah Mobile Developers user group that is forming. Their first activity is on the schedule for Wednesday, October 29 and will discuss both iPhone and Android development. Here’s the agenda and RVSP:

6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, review door prizes
6:40 Presentation 1 – iPhone Development
7:40 Presentation 2 – Android (Google Phone) Development
8:40 Door prizes
9:00 Meeting over
Afterward – trip to someplace local for pie, drinks, fries, whatever

Please rsvp by sending an email to glen@glenlewis.com.

I’ve already added it to the Utah Tech Events Calendar. If you’re a nerdy Utahn who loves mobile phones you should come. This is going to be an area of explosive growth and opportunity.

For those who didn’t know, I’m working on a tech business that’s very mobile-phone related, so I’m very excited to see this group forming in Utah.

Utah Asterisk Users Group Formed

From their post:

“We will have our first Utah Asterisk Users’ Group meeting January 11th at 7:00 pm. it will be held in the conference room of the executive suites at Willow Creek Plaza. The address is 8160 S. Highland Drive, Sandy UT.

“We will be giving out free DID’s to all in attendance. We will also be giving out a few paperback O’Reilly books.

“Here is a tentative schedule for our first meeting:
7:00 refreshments
7:05 welcome
7:10 discussion about pronunciation of UTAUG
7:12 vote
7:15 Dave Packham! (Author of config Edit)
7:34 refreshments
7:40 more interesting speaking
7:45 raffle and games
7:46 Jared Smith! (Author of IAX2 Trunking )
8:00 refreshments
8:06 determine UTAUG objectives
8:15 mystery activity
and more!

UTAUG map and driving directions

This is great news for open source fans in Utah. Asterisk is an open source PBX that totally rules.

Update:

My company now does contract and consulting work to support Asterisk, OpenSIPS (OpenSER), FreeSWITCH and other VoIP / telephony servers and applications. We have a lot of experience and a broad industry knowledge, so if you need some paid support, please let me know and we’d be happy to help!