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 Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:21 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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p { margin: 0; }[ Optimised G.729A 'Howlet' for FreeSWITCH & Asterisk ]
Howler Technologies are proud to announce today the launch of
the first fully indemnified G.729A solution for FreeSWITCH.
This is the first in a series of products dubbed 'Howlets'
that add highly performant transcoding and signal processing
modules to open-source telecoms platforms.
The G.729A Howlet ships as a drop-in module for FreeSWITCH
or Asterisk, and enables cost-effective transcoding of G.729
and G.729A calls to other codecs.
It scales to more than 500 concurrent transcoded calls on a
single quad core server, and is licensed on a per concurrent
channel basis.
You can choose from two licensing models - fixed server
perpetual and annual floating, the latter allowing you
to 'float' your licensed channels across multiple servers
for ultimate flexibility.
Our unique floating licenses means you enable G.729A across
your infrastructure without the administrative overhead of
managing per-server licenses, and at a fraction of the
initial cost of fixed-server licenses.
Howlets are available for purchase immediately, and start
at just £3.99/channnel with all patent holder royalties
taken care of. Download your free trial today!
http://www.howlertech.com/products/howlets/
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Enjoy,
The Howler Team <support@howlertech.com>
Howler Technologies Ltd, 11 Charlotte Mews, London, W1T 4EQ
tel: +44 207 099 7099 fax: +44 207 099 7098
http://www.howlertech.com/
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dave at 3c.co.uk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:45 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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| Quote: | There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler.
How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving
something back"?
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Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk
want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com
and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to
get the thing working across the various platforms with the required
licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits
immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition
would be entirely unreasonable.
--Dave
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David Knell, Director, 3C Limited
T: +44 20 3298 2000
E: dave@3c.co.uk
W: http://www.3c.co.uk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:10 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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Congrats to them for taking the risk.
Just as an aside, just to let everyone know, I am taking the same risk. We have invested in the same deal from sipro and will shortly be offering an official FreeSWITCH g729 module in the very near future.
This, of course, does benifit the project directly, because it gives a revenue source to help fund the project where naturally a 3rd party module mostly benifits users of FreeSWITCH which is, of course, not a bad thing.
We might have had it sooner but we've been very busy making FreeSWITCH itself and it's a matter of first things first.
So, again congrats guys, I hope your hardware codec boards sell and you leave a little room for us on the software side.
| Quote: | On Jun 26, 2009 9:48 AM, "David Knell" <dave@3c.co.uk (dave@3c.co.uk)> wrote:
| Quote: | There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler. > How does this benefit ...Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk
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want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com
and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to
get the thing working across the various platforms with the required
licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits
immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition
would be entirely unreasonable.
--Dave
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David Knell, Director, 3C Limited
T: +44 20 3298 2000
E: dave@3c.co.uk (dave@3c.co.uk)
W: http://www.3c.co.uk
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vhatz at kinetix.gr
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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I have to agree with David here.
A G729 codec benefits the project immensely as it allows Freeswitch
users to use the most widespread commercial codec.
Best regards,
Vlasis Hatzistavrou
Kinetix Tele.com Hellas Ltd.
Monastiriou 9 & Enotikon
54627
Thessaloniki
Greece
Tel.: +302310556134
Fax: +302310556134 (ext. 0)
GSM: +306977835653
e-mail: vhatz@kinetix.gr
http://www.kinetixtele.com
David Knell wrote:
| Quote: | | Quote: | There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and Howler.
How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is "giving
something back"?
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Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk
want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com
and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to
get the thing working across the various platforms with the required
licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits
immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in addition
would be entirely unreasonable.
--Dave
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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Hey David,
| Quote: | | Quote: | There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and
Howler.
How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is
"giving
something back"?
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Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk
want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com
and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to
get the thing working across the various platforms with the required
licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits
immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in
addition
would be entirely unreasonable.
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You're spot on on the somewhat extortionate up-front (and continuing
royalty) fees, and there is substantial risk in us doing this which we
hope will be mitigated by the rising interest in FreeSWITCH as a whole
(a project which we've been huge evangelists of since the beginning).
We hope that adding patent encumbered codecs like G.729 to FreeSWITCH
will ultimately benefit the project and cause more people to be able
to transition towards it from other platforms, building on the fantastic
platform that Anthony and the rest of the gang have somehow managed
to develop for free!
Our initial feedback has been very promising, with a number of customers
at least in the UK (including one major VoIP provider) that we've spoken
to directly now seriously considering a migration to FreeSWITCH.
We hope that the small per channel charge is not too onerous - we've
tried
to make it as cheap as possible by introducing the floating licenses
(and
including all support and maintenance upgrades free of charge), but
there
are very real costs here in royalties and development - how you guys
do it
mostly for free is beyond me!
We have, of course, spoken to the FreeSWITCH team and offered to
collaborate
on this project (as they've also been working on this for a while) and
we
hope that we can join forces on it soon so that everyone benefits 
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Regards,
Jay Fenton, CTO <jay.fenton@howlertech.com>
Howler Technologies Ltd, 11 Charlotte Mews, London, W1T 4EQ
tel: +44 207 099 7095 fax: +44 207 099 7098
http://www.howlertech.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfenton
Registered in England & Wales, Company No. 06285634
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:45 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] Announcement: Howler-optimised G.729A Sol |
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Hey David,
| Quote: | | Quote: | There doesn't seem to be any direct link between FreeSWITCH and
Howler.
How does this benefit the project? Can we assume that Howler is
"giving
something back"?
|
Well, they're providing additional functionality which a lot of folk
want, which requires substantial investment in money (visit sipro.com
and have a look at the up-front license fees if you wish) and time (to
get the thing working across the various platforms with the required
licensing) and they've presumably taken a commercial risk so to do.
Hats off to them: they've taken a risk, and the project benefits
immensely from it. Expecting them to "give something back" in
addition
would be entirely unreasonable.
|
You're spot on on the somewhat extortionate up-front (and continuing royalty) fees, and there is substantial risk in us doing this which we hope will be mitigated by the rising interest in FreeSWITCH as a whole (a project which we've been huge evangelists of since the beginning).
We hope that adding patent encumbered codecs like G.729 to FreeSWITCH will ultimately benefit the project and cause more people to be able to transition towards it from other platforms, building on the fantastic platform that Anthony and the rest of the gang have somehow managed to develop for free!
Our initial feedback has been very promising, with a number of customers at least in the UK (including one major VoIP provider) that we've spoken to directly now seriously considering a migration to FreeSWITCH.
We hope that the small per channel charge is not too onerous - we've tried to make it as cheap as possible by introducing the floating licenses (and including all support and maintenance upgrades free of charge), but there are very real costs here in royalties and development - how you guys do it mostly for free is beyond me!
We have, of course, spoken to the FreeSWITCH team and offered to collaborate on this project (as they've also been working on this for a while) and we hope that we can join forces on it soon so that everyone benefits
--
Regards,
Jay Fenton, CTO <jay.fenton@howlertech.com> c/o Will Boyce
Howler Technologies Ltd, 11 Charlotte Mews, London, W1T 4EQ
tel: +44 207 099 7095 fax: +44 207 099 7098
http://www.howlertech.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfenton
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