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CommsWorld: Open Source Users Not Waiting

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RC
Richard Chirgwin
Apr 29, 2004

“Duane Groth, known to wireless enthusiasts as admin of the
Sydney Wireless list, has launched an enum-based lookup service
aimed at VoIP users.

“Himself a user of the open source Asterisk IP telephony server,
he says the new server is designed to let calls to PSTN numbers
originate on the Internet and, if the owner of the called number
has registered that number as available over VoIP, allow the call
to complete without having to cross into the PSTN.

“It is not a network-specific service, as is common in much of
the VoIP world…”


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Richard Chirgwin

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