Moskaluk Telephone to use VoiceMesh

After a lot of discussions it appears that VoiceMesh is becoming a reality using wireless mesh and asterisk distros. Moskaluk Telephone uses VoiceMesh which is an example of a Disruption Tolerant Applications. The idea here is to build a set of applications that work even when the network is absent, delayed or only sporadically available. However work differs in that the application itself appears continuous. Moskaluk are also investigating disruption tolerance in the guise of "infrastructure-free applications" that do their best to work in diverse connectivity situations.

VoiceMesh is a way to locally connect a set of mesh nodes where at least one of them has access connection to the rest of the world. The idea is that any of the mesh nodes on the network can access the Moskaluk Telephone connections seamlessly.

There are three advantages to this scheme:

1. Anyone can access the connection (VoIP to POTS);
2. You can easily have local and distant conference calls;
3. The actual IAX or SIP softphone is freely available.

Moskaluk operation, we will build this to be agile and resilient so that voice will travel by any and all of the VoIP at the edge, and migrate between them as connections appear and get lost. Further, we will make the system guarantee a connection by multiplexing the voice traffic locally through whatever Uplink connections are in operation. The key to this is to ensure that Concordiax server follows the Locustworld’s wireless mesh topology as per http://www.moskaluk.com/voip_using_wireless_mesh_infrast.htm

A New Wireless Mesh Telephony Solution

After about a year of working with Trixbox and Locustworld I found that solution for Wide Area Networks needs a bit of twik. Now Trixbox is a good solution and if you are evaluating or about to deploy it you should know a few things, such as:

Trixbox provide multi-media contact centre solutions. They developed PBX and integrate with SugarCRM systems as well as introduce and expand new solutions and processes. Trixbox multi-media voice & data solutions include:
· Automatic Call Distribution (ACD).
· Predictive, Progressive & Preview Dialers.
· Interactive Voice Response (IVR).
· Speech / Voice Recognition.
· Call / Voice Recording & Quality Monitoring.
· Email Management, Web Self-Service & Knowledge-base solutions.
· Web Chat, Web Collaboration & Web Call-Back.
· Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
· Workforce Management / Optimization.

Increasingly, organizations are employing advanced communications mechanisms to streamline the customer interaction process. While this can lead to efficiency improvements, it may not always lead to a better customer service experience - unless it is introduced by the right team of technology specialists. This is where Trixbox, which is dedicated to helping companies improve the way they interact with their customers, marks itself out from many of its competitors.

However, Asterisk developments are not only PBX replacements they can also be VoIP application providers. When marrying up with Wireless Mesh Technology and Asterisk can provide a truly new telephony system. Wireless Mesh has demonstrated that using Trixbox as extension of existing network can work or a wide area network. But there are concerns that configuration and changes of how CRM are deploy and billing systems are added make Trixbox not the right solution for Wide Area Networks or Metropolitan Area Networks. What is need is an Asterisk Solution that focuses on providing Telephony on that scale.

The solution is to bring an Asterisk type solution with elements of Wide area deployment and integration of wireless mesh technologies. Well that why I coming up with a solution that is similar to PBX-in-a-Flash which is based on Concordiax ISO. Now PBX-in-a-Flash is great solution with a focus on DIY and has a similar mandate to Trixbox and beyond; however, with the Concordiax engine it running on the latest installation of Asterisk with out the sugarCRM package. Moskaluk solution will be to use the Asterisk system with scripting of NerdVittles but with an A2Billing component that will integrate with Wireless Mesh.
Hopefully I should have a distro ready for testing in the next few weeks. Stay tuned a Solution for Wireless Mesh Telephony for the provider is about to be come reality.