gundy dot org

This site has some very cool VoIP news/information. The creator of Asterisk and Gaim talks about Asterisk teaming with Google to bringing Jingle to Asterisk. What does it matter?

Jingle uses the same Jabber protocol between clients for voice that it does for IM. With Jingle, the actual content of the call, the media stream , travels directly between GoogleTalk end points. The signaling used to setup and control the call travels across the Jabber infrastructure. So as those Jabber servers federate with Google for IM, they implicitly create a federated framework for carrying VoIP calls as well.

I have a feeling that we are on the cusp of something very, very cool.

Sounds like there is going to be a new Utah Asterisk Users Group. I’ll no doubt get involved. Asterisk is a killer app for Open Source.