AstriCon 2016

I'll give an overview about some scenarios you might encounter when putting a SIP Service in the internet. There is an huge amount of people who benefit from insecure systems as well there are lots of people who want's to press money on DOS Attacks. The methods which are used to search the internet for vulnerabilities are mainly pretty simple to protect for. I built an Honey Pot and searched for ways to protect the system. There are ways for protection and i'll show some of them.

Discover the SIPCAPTURE Stack, a platform-agnostic modular suite of Open-Source RTC and VoIP Capture, Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools featuring HOMER 5 and its powerful packet capture companions providing tight native integration with Asterisk 12+ as well as all major OSS VoIP Platforms (Kamailio, OpenSIPS, FreeSwitch and more coming) and sockets to plug external packets, logs, media reports and statistics.

Asterisk support for WebRTC and websocket based SIP clients combined with cloud connectivity enablement has allowed us to build out a distributed voice-enabled social network, with social connections between organizations and colleagues, and Asterisk-based PBXs.
Using an IoT inspired model, our Asterisk based PBXs participate in a pure web-tech based social network, wanderweb.net, by signing in to the same https service as ordinary human users. Javascript is served up to an Node based shell to enable web-driven code-on-demand applications to run on site.
The wanderweb.net IoT client is a code-on-demand application delivered to the Node.js shell on the Asterisk PBX. It authenticates with, then opens a secure websocket to wanderweb.net. It also opens websockets to Asterisk as required for SIP registrations. The websockets are bridged in order to deliver bidirectional SIP communications between the Asterisk instance and a SIP proxy in the cloud. The same websocket is also used for OAM and http connection to the platform.
The rapid advances of ARM SoC based platforms, driven by mobile applications, has resulted in the availability of many powerful, low cost, energy efficient platforms that are ideal for Asterisk applications. At the same time, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu now have standardized ARM architecture software ecosystems. We have released a quad core ARM based PBX/Gateway product that runs Asterisk and the rest of our software stack, as used on our more traditional Intel architecture products. This includes the WebRTC and IoT client features. With this we are able to offer an extremely low cost on-site solution that supports WebRTC based UC mobility through its interaction with wanderweb.net.T

VoIP setups with a majority of subscribers using mobile devices with high registration rates can put a lot of strain or even become performance killers for advanced PBX systems such as Asterisk. By adding a mid-registrar layer capable of converting the high-rate incoming traffic into a low-rate variant (by changing the registration lifetime / expiry time), we can both improve the scalability and reduce the complexity of such platforms. The presentation will cover the scenario description, common pitfalls and possible ways of overcoming them, as well as a live demo using the latest open-source software available.

OpenSIPS 2.2.0 comes with a new built-in clustering support - an easy way to grow your OpenSIPS based platform for scaling and geo-distribution. Data and services are naturally shared and extended across all OpenSIPS instances inside a cluster - global handling of dialogs, call limits or user registrations. The clustering support extends further OpenSIPS itself, allowing global handling of external clusters, such as Asterisk pools of servers. It will show how easy it is to create a setup that increases your platform's capacity and makes it easy to scale.

Internet Telephony has evolved over the years from simple office PBX to clustered voice services. CGRateS project was born out of today’s market demand for performance and scalability when it comes to Real-Time Charging.
In this talk Dan will briefly introduce CGRateS’s architectural concepts and advantages of using it for distributed charging, exemplifying use cases for account bundles, fraud detection with automatic mitigation or advanced real-time call statistics with actions triggered on threshold hits.
CGRateS is a battle-tested real-time Charging Engine which supports 4 different charging modes: Prepaid, Pseudo-prepaid, Postpaid and Rated

Kamailio and Asterisk together can provide an enterprise class, secure VoIP system. Kamailio can help your deployment remain strong during brute force attacks, fraud attempts, and other security threats in today's world.

Moving a VoIP application into the modern container-based cloud can be a daunting task. The networking requirements of VoIP do not fit well with the networking paradigms in use, and the build and configuration environments are equally misaligned. In this talk, we will cover not only the stumbling blocks, but also tools and methods to work around them. The platform focus will be Kubernetes, the open-source cluster operating environment from Google.

Regardless of whether you are using Asterisk for an enterprise, a contact center, or to run a carrier; you need to manage and monitor your network.
In this session Eric will review the various commercial and open source systems you can use to manage your network. This will be done by giving examples and case studies from various types of situation. These will include an enterprise, a contact center, and a cellular carrier.
An emphasis will be towards network uptime and security, and will include a screen capture of a brute force attack.

Presence Technology is a software company with more than 15 years which offers a best-in-class Multichannel Contact Center Solution which is recognized by Industry Leaders.
On this event, we would like to share a successful story of how Presence Technology decided using Asterisk to extend its Contact Center Solutions with full independence of the Telephony Platform the customer had. Presence Technology will explain how to achieve the utilization of Asterisk and made it scalable to support 2000 agents on a single setup.
In 2015, Presence OpenGate Architecture (powered by Asterisk) represented more than 80% of all deals Presence won. Clients are confident with the Solution & Asterisk Platform. This architecture is dispositioning other solutions such as Avaya, Genesys, etc.
Developing a full telephony platform from scratch was not feasible due to costs and timing, so Presence Technology decided to use Asterisk. Its Open Source approach allowed Presence adapting it to leverage a solution which will gather all features covered by the Avaya, such as: PBX, ACD, Call Classification, Terminal Registration, Encoding, VoIP Protocols, etc. Presence completed Asterisk great features and focus its resources on making it more scalable engineering an N+1 architecture which can be managed as 1 big system and including a common CTI Layer, ACD Engine, Classification Engine, Administration Layer, etc.
Today, and thanks to Asterisk, Presence Technology is able to provide a complete solution end-to-end with Voice, E-mail, SMS, Social Media, Chat and Video channels fully blended. It includes full automation for Voice Outbound and Inbound interactions, including IVR with TTS and ASR capabilities. This automation can be extended to non-voice channels using the Intelligent Routing engine.
Embedding Asterisk into Presence Technology Solution allows deliver a very easy to use solution. The Presence Contact Center Solution is scalable, flexible, affordable, and reliable. Contact Centers are complex environments and Presence just simplifies them.

Alicia is a customer service manager working in a multi cultural help desk environment of a large e-commerce, specializing in luggage delivery for people traveling through international airports.
The Alicia customer care is spread across three main airport hubs and she is used to have her team moving frequently across the different customer care offices.

As a result, she is looking for an Asterisk solution able to manage the agent login and logout inside different queues, using either a CTI Desktop application or a Mobile App.

The XCALLY Team will present the concept of a Mobile Application - available for free on the Android market place - able to interact with Asterisk 13, in order to manage the call center agent most common operations, especially useful for teleworker agents, moving then to an example of an Omni Channel WebRTC agent application concept build for Asterisk, optimized for the call center environments.