ClueCon, August 2014, Chicago, USA
FreeSWITCH and Fairwaves teams strike a partnership during ClueCon, the annual, open-source convention hosted by FreeSWITCH
FreeSWITCH and Fairwaves teams are combining efforts with the goal of creating the most powerful, feature-rich and easy to use mobile network in a box. Fairwaves provides UmSITE and UmDESK GSM base station hardware, which can provide voice, SMS, and GPRS service to any GSM handset. With 80% of mobile phones in the world supporting GSM, there is tremendous potential. FreeSWITCH is the Swiss army knife of VoIP communication, letting users interconnect with any VoIP provider and implement any service you want. The whole system is entirely hackable, thanks to its open-source components, including FreeSWITCH and Osmocom software as well as UmTRX SDR hardware.
The combination of the FreeSWITCH and Fairwaves technology binds worlds of mobile and VoIP telephony together. It’s now possible to:
- install this system anywhere
- maintain it with no headache
- implement services using familiar FreeSWITCH tools
- benefit from a completely open-source solution
Alexander Chemeris, CEO of Fairwaves, Inc. says: “I’m happy to build this relationship with the FreeSWITCH team. We evaluated various VoIP software and found FreeSWITCH best suits our needs. Cooperation with the core FreeSWITCH team gives us an opportunity to tightly integrate with FreeSWITCH and make the Fairwaves solution easier to use, maintain, and extend. FreeSWITCH has a strong and dedicated team who prefers action to shallow words and we thoroughly enjoy working with them!”
Brian West, Head of QA/Development of FreeSWITCH, says: “Our partnership with Fairwaves is about developing additional capabilities in FreeSWITCH that would make integration with Osmocom faster, easier and more flexible, giving integrators more power without sacrificing features.”
About Fairwaves
Fairwaves is a new kind of full-stack telecom vendor, one tailored to serve mobile operators in low-income areas. Fairwaves provides everything to build a mobile network that is profitable, even at $2 per month revenue per user. It scales from a single site to a country-wide network, offers free calls and roaming inside the global Fairwaves network.
About FreeSWITCH
FreeSWITCH is a scalable, open-source, cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools. http://www.FreeSWITCH.org