An announcement from the GNU Bayonne project . . .

We are exhibiting a functional GNU Bayonne key telephone system running under GNU/Linux and using the VoiceTronix OpenSwitch12 matrix card, for the first time, this week at the Free Software Business Demo being held at the LaGuarida Queens campus of the City University of New York City (CUNY) on October 23rd. We will be demonstrating how GNU Bayonne implements common business telephone features such as intercom dialing, call transfer, hold recall, parking, hunt groups, call forwarding, speed dialing, and call coverage.

By introducing support for plugging telephones directly into GNU/Linux servers running GNU Bayonne, we will also demonstrate the power of free software to create customer driven solutions for the business telephone marketplace. Since GNU Bayonne telephone system features and functionality are entirely under application script control, it is easy to modify and create business specific telephone solutions for vertical markets. Not only can GNU Bayonne be used to emulate common key telephone system features, but to create entirely new features from scratch.

By extending the GNU Bayonne scripting engine to support key telephone features, we also are able to mix voice processing into any part of the call flow. Imagine, for example, a smart GNU Bayonne driven hotel phone system that automatically asks the person picking up the phone in his room for the first time if he would like to activate outside phone service without having to bug reception. Imagine voice announcements using the recorded names of incoming callers.

While we have chosen to start with the OpenSwitch12 card, we will be migrating telephone switching support into most of the major telephony cards used with GNU Bayonne over time. In the future we will also support high port density GNU Bayonne ACD solutions for use in deploying call centers and other kinds of CRM applications.

Today we need your help to advance GNU Bayonne forward. We need help in developing gui management tools to provide a complete and easy to administer turnkey phone system. We need people to write new and creative voice telephony applications using GNU Bayonne. For further info, or if you wish to contribute to GNU Bayonne development, please send email to [email protected] For further information on the Free Software Business Demo, please visit www.nylxs.com.

 
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