Milestone #5 of Bayonne, the telephony server of the GNU project, has been released and is available from this ftp site. This new milestone offers support for both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD systems. Pre-build FreeBSD packages for Bayonne may be found this ftp… site.

This milestone offers support for Voicetronix's new unified telephony driver for both FreeBSD and GNU/Linux. In addition, Bayonne continues to support Pika “MonteCarlo” based DSP telephony cards under GNU/Linux, and Quicknet cards under GNU/Linux. This milestone also supports the proposed FreeBSD Quicknet driver.

Bayonne can be used to create telephony services under free operating systems such as enterprise Voice Mail and unified messaging, general purpose voice response, call distribution and paging systems, and remote telephone system administration. Bayonne is modular and can be extended thru user written loadable modules, thru a native scripting language, or thru external “perl” scripts using “TGI”. Bayonne is free software and may be directly modified as needed.

With milestone #5 now complete, we are now ready to begin work on VoIP services for Bayonne for milestone #6 and the 1.0 release of Bayonne for the end of this year. We are looking to further extend telephony driver support with Dialogic and Aculab hardware, to add further languages for international support beyond the current Enlish and French voice libraries, and to generally push the frontiers further of what a general purpose telephony server suitable for building embedded, enterprise, and carrier class applications should be.

As always, the Bayonne project is open to outside developers, and we are looking for volunteers to help with language localization, with telephony drivers, with implimenting core features, with building applications under Bayonne, and with external management software. Any questions should be addressed to [email protected].

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