Project leader David Sugar provides an in-depth look The Bayonne Project for Linux Journal. GNU Bayonne makes running telephony software on any vendor's card possible . . .

“Three years ago I came to realize that we had a serious need in free software. Although free software had expanded to fill almost every other void in the enterprise infrastructure, we had not addressed the needs of telecommunications. Telecommunications are not only a part of the infrastructure of every business, but they are also an often overlooked part of the desktop user's experience. At the same time, the hardware required to create telephony services for the public telephone network has become more widely available under commodity PC platforms and operating systems, including GNU/Linux . . . “

” . . . Our goal was not only to produce a telephony server as free software, but we wanted also to make telephony application services as readily and easily approachable as creating and administering a web site. We also wanted to abstract the telephony driver and APIs to the point that they were both irrelevant and invisible in the development of application services. Doing so would mean anyone could substitute hardware as they wished, rather than being locked into the offering of a single vendor . . . “

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