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(oFono) FYI on Extremely Interesting (GSM/UMTS) Open Telephony Platform

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Steve Totaro has posted details of a new open source telephony project from Nokia and Intel.

This is basically in the realm of with GNURadio, OpenBTS, Airprobe (aireprobe.org) projects.

Unlimited potential here people, and the project is backed by Intel and Nokia, a VERY awesome development.

It basically will allow for things such as creating your own BTS or more advanced wireless/cellular network.

http://ofono.org/

oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications. oFono is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license. oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with open source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends.

"Announcing ofono.org

Submitted by Marcel Holtmann, updated on 11 May 2009 - 11:31 - 0 comments
Type: Announcement

Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project, an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution.

oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.

Review the oFono architecture diagram for more information.

Review the source code for an even closer look."
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Thanks,
Steve Totaro


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