Mysipswitch

MySIPSwitch is a Voice over IP

Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...

(VoIP) open-source software under BSD licence and a free service.

MySIPSwitch is an experimental stateful SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...

Proxy server sponsored by Blue Face

BlueFace

Blueface is a telephony services provider, founded by Aaron Clauson in 2004. Blueface provides call plans for residential and business customers, along with VoIP and geographical numbers...

to allow the use of multiple supplier SIP accounts from a single SIP login. It basically means that you can use many SIP accounts with a single piece of hardware (IP Phone, ATA or softphone).

The service is based on a dial plan (written either in Asterisk-like syntax or in Ruby). This dial plan allows routing of inbound and outbound calls depending on the parameters you want : call prefix, time of the day, availability … You can fork an incoming call to various end points, you can forward the call to a second or third end point if the first ones are not responding, you can block calls, you can create a speed dial directory (for instance if you press *1 or *2 …, it automatically dials, the number you specified …). On top of these call management features you have various debugging tools that allow playing with and testing the service.

MySIPSwitch also allows the handling of SIP phone calls from web browsers: hangup, transfer, forward, hold and resume. It is possible to take an incoming call from one provider and forward it onto another provider without having to have a device registered. This makes it possible to receive a call without the need for a VoIP device at all.

MySIPSwitch has a user discussion forum allowing developers to improve it according to the feedback from users.
The development language is C#, the database environment is PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

and the interface is a website.

The source code can be downloaded from SIPSwitch's page on Codeplex.

Features

SIP account creation
Setting up a customised dial plan
Setting up 3rd party SIP Registrations
SIP traffic forwarding
SIP Accounts activity monitoring via the website
SIP traffic monitoring via telnet
Online switchboard: call hold/resume, call transfer/forward, call hangup
Usual security features
Click to Call (Beta)
Possibility to run it on a local computer
Multiple call forwarding
RUBY Dial plans
ENUM Lookup

History

November 2006: Created by Aaron Clauson from Blueface
January 2007: Improvements thanks to user's feedback
April 2007: New features: call management functions, new dial plan interface
July 2007: Creation of a dedicated forum
August 2007: Bugs corrections and 3rd party registrations improvements
October 2007: New layout (it now looks much better)
October 2007: new feature: possibility to use the dial plan for incoming calls
February 2008: new features : click to call and local version
March 2008: Ruby (programming language)
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

Dial plan
February 2009: New tool to automatically generate Ruby Dial Plans. more info
June 2009: New accounts are no longer being accepted. The mysipswitch.com site recommends that users use their new non-free service at sipsorcery.com

MySIPSwitch

Features

History

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