The guys from Amoocon made videos from all the talks and lectures and now they’re available for download. If you want to checkout my talk, the video is linked from this page.

Enjoy!

The last two days I spent at the amoocon 2009 in Rostock. Stefan Wintermeyer (Founder of Amooma GmbH and Author of the Asterisk Book) organized the conference and asked me to give an OpenBSD talk. It was a get-together of quite a few big names of the VoIP scene.

The conference started with a keynote by Marc Spencer (Original Author of Asterisk and head of Digium, Inc.. Throughout the day the talks were very well done. The conference took place at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Rostock and Stefan and his team from Amooma did an excellent job organizing it. The quality and level of talks was good and the sourrounding made it fun to be a speaker. I was a bit surprised that this was the first conference sind 2005 were I actually did not know anyone (well, except for the person that got me there), but I guess there is not a whole lot of crossover inbetween the OS and VoIP scenes.

I was quite happy to hear that John Todd, community manager at Digium, is a big OpenBSD user. He uses OpenBSD all around his house with asterisk trunk on it. nice. Lenz Grimmer from MySQL (I’ll spare you the obvoious jokes about the “renaming” of his employer) gave two very interesting talks. One on MySQL HA and the other on Securing and backing up MySQL.

Today I gave my talk on OpenBSD in VoIP environments (on german). Apparently they made videos of all the talks, so I will link to that at some point. The slides for my talk are available here.

After several months of testing, we’ve now put our VoIP phone system into production! The new official phone numbers are:

Phone: +49-441-309197-0

Fax: +49-441-309197-99

Of course, each of us has a direct extension as well. The SIP-Connectivity comes from Antilo AG.

The whole system runs on a Soekris 5501-70 with Asterisk handling the SIP parts. For our desk we have Snom 370 hardphones, the mobile users use ekiga as a softphone. All phones connected to the main asterisk-server run over our VPN. Incoming calls that can not be handled due to all people being busy are submitted via e-mail to our ticketing system. That way nothing gets lost.

For the fax number we have an extension that hands over the call to IAXmodem which handles the incoming fax together with hylafax+. From there a PDF is submitted into our ticketing system, just like with our voicemail.

Aside the fact that we can talk inbetween our different locations over crypted lines, we now have a very high reachability with minimum effort!

Besides the help we got from Antilo in getting the initial SIP-connectivity running, the guys from Amooma gave us a quick hand, when I got stuck with handing over the incoming fax calls to hylafax. Of course it was a one-line change that got it working, but thanks to the professional support from Amooma it was quickly solved.

Want to listen to some OpenBSD tunes? Dial: +49-441-30919798!