Kamailio - New Module: ims_ocs

With a rather busy end of 2016, several additions to Kamailio missed the chance to get into the news as they were imported in the repository. Now it’s time to catch up with some of them, given that development is frozen and the focus is on testing master branch in order to prepare the v5.0.0 release.

One of the new modules that will make it into v5.0.0 is named ims_ocs. As the prefix suggests is related to Internet Multimedia Subsystem (aka IMS), the core platform for 4G/VoLTE mobile networks. More specifically, it is an implementation of a simple Online Charging Server, communicating with ims_charging module via Diameter-Ro interface.

The module was developed by the folks at NG Voice, led by Carsten Bock. More details about the module can be found in its readme docs:

• http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/ims_ocs.html

Stay tuned for more news about what’s new in upcoming Kamailio v5.0.0!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

6th FOKUS FUSECO Forum

Fraunhofer Fokus Research Institute, the place where SIP Express Router (SER) project started (which over the time resulted in Kamailio project), is organizing the 6th edition of FUSECO Forum during Nov 5-6, 2015, in Berlin, Germany.

The two days event combines practical workshops with panels and keynote presentations, revealing what is the trend in real time communications, from classic telephony, 4/5G to IoT, smart cities and machine to machine communications.

For more details, see:

• https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/fuseco-forum-2015

Representative from Kamailio community will be at the event, myself included, along with Dragos Vingarzan (initial developer of IMS extensions) and Elena-Ramona Modroiu (core developer).

SIP Router Development Meeting 2009

Next SIP Router Project Development Meeting coordinates:

Date: Friday, October 2, 2009

Place: Berlin, Germany

The event is co-hosted by FhG Fokus Institute and Technical University Berlin at following address:

FhG Fokus, Room 1008

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31

10589 Berlin

- see venue of the location

Among the goals of the meeting:

• analyze the development and progress so far
  • Kamailio (OpenSER) and SER integration is 99% completed
  • first major release based on SIP router – Kamailio 3.0 – is due in one month – during October
  • OpenIMSCore extensions ready to use with SIP router core
  • what was good and bad?
• find solutions for conflicting modules and namings
  • database table structures
  • database table names
  • module names
• future directions
  • versioning and releasing policies
  • targets for next year
• organizational aspects
  • infrastructure
  • management
• social networking and business environment

The participation is free of charge for anybody upon registration via short email at:

registration [at] lists.sip-router.org

this being required for proper dimensioning of meeting room and needed logistics. Registration must be done before September 28, 2009.

Who you can meet there:

• developers of SIP Express Router (SER), Kamailio (OpenSER), OpenIMSCore, SIP Express Media Server (SEMS) and other open source or commercial VoIP proejcts
• community members of above mentioned projects
• representatives from companies acting in VoIP and SIP business

Who should consider participation:

• people willing to get a close feeling about project development
• people willing to understand how and when SIP Router can be used
• people willing to meet face to face with the others acting within SIP Router project environment

Agenda:

• developer slot: presentations from developers
• community slot: presentations from community and business representatives
• open discussions
• social networking event

Hacking day:

• if there is interest from developers, the days before the public meeting can be organized as hacking session, where you get your hands dirty and code around the project. Do not forget to mention your interest in such event!

You can address general questions about the event via email to:

sr-dev@lists.sip-router.org

More details to follow soon! Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009!

Day by day, we ended another year. 2008 was full of events, starting with one major release and six minor releases, participation to workshops and conferences wordlwide, adoption in new production environments and acknowledgement of running platforms with millions of users and billions of routed minutes/month using Kamailio (OpenSER), check the News archive at:

http://www.kamailio.org

There were sad events as well, including the hijacking of the old domain name after the rename in Kamailio, still the SourceForge project goes on, with same name, proving the genuine openser project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openser/

We maintained release 1.3.x series, last being 1.3.4, which still keeps the old name and is available at:

http://www.openser-project.org/mos/view/News/NewsItem/OpenSER-v1.3.4-Released/

Life is going on, from the the latest major release, version 1.4.0, the project boosted in new features, a summary of what is new since then is available here:

http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/features:new-in-1.5.x

An important share of effort was directed to clean the code and improve the stability and performance, a proof of maturity and the need to make the maintenance of the project easier and open for new comers. Lot of documentation was added in doxygen format inside the source code, Devel Guide was published, new developers can start new easier to enhance the application.

Reference moment for the future was the launch of SIP Router project in November - a concentration of many people with great SIP and VoIP expertise, backed up by huge programming experience in this field. This came to strengthen the development workforce, to ensure the reliability, to remove the doubts of what projects is better now or is going to develop better in the future.

http://sip-router.org

So, 2009 is an year that announces already great achievements to be done in its first half:

• 1st Quarter - release of Kamailio (OpenSER) 1.5.0
• minor releases for 1.4x and 1.5.x
  
• 2nd Quarter - release of SIP Router project as stable version
• dedicated meeting to celebrate the first operational SIP Router and draw future directions

With the release of SIP Router project, everyone gets access to the features provided by Kamailio (OpenSER), SIP Express Router and OpenIMSCore projects:

http://sip-router.org/benefits/

Looking forward to a fruitful 2009!