16 posts tagged with "Wazo Platform"

This guide will show how to quickly get a development environment of Wazo Platform inside a virtual machine to run the acceptance tests. To do so, we will use libvirt, virt-installer and the Wazo Platform iso.

This is the first of a series of blog posts about the HA features of the Wazo Platform C4. In this article, we concentrate on the routing component which is composed of a scalable set of Kamailio instances denominated routers.

The routers are not accessed directly from carriers nor the termination IPBXs, as they are behind the SBC infrastructure. We assume then the routers are on an internal, non-externally accessible network segment and communicate with the SBC using the SIP protocol over UDP.

The problem​

In the Wazo Platform C4 we are committed to delivering the most flexible, as well as easy to configure and set up, Softswitch in the market. The SIP router key component is provided by Kamailio, the leading open-source SIP server.

Our goal was while supporting high degrees of flexibility and ease to configure, to avoid any compromise regarding performances: we aim to support a high number of concurrent calls, high call rates with predictable and linear degradation of performances in case of overload.

Introduction​

In a complex microservice VoIP architecture testing the functionalities or stress testing the whole system becomes a complex task especially if we want to run multiple tests and have a sterile environment for every test run without restarting the whole infrastructure every time. Also, there is a need for testing the architecture under heavy load but in a random way, much more close to real-life usage.

With our experience with scalable VoIP infrastructure and a lot of trials and errors, creating a mess with a lot of bash scripts doing different things preparing the environment for launching sipp tests and scenarios we decided to start from a clean slate and redesign or way to do tests.

Introduction​

Wazo Platform allows you to build your own IP communication infrastructure and deliver innovative communication services. Fully open-source, API-centric, Cloud-native & multi-tenant, the project is designed around the famous open-source frameworks Asterisk & Kamailio.

If you want to know more about Wazo Platform, we encourage you to discover Frédéric Lepied's presentation introduced at the Astricon 2019.

To fulfill Wazo Platform's vision to bring a full-featured, open-source, cloud-native telecom solution for the communication industry, we knew that the C4 (Class 4) routing and SBC were essential for scaling, securing and load balancing the traffic to our B2BUA engines.

Keeping in mind our microservice architecture, we also wanted to further strip down some of the Asterisk dependant functionalities and try to use different tools.

Hello Wazo community!

We are excited to release today the latest version of Wazo Platform!

Wazo Platform is an Open Source project allowing to build carrier grade programmable IP communication infrastructures. You can pick and choose the components you need to build your infrastructures.

It is designed so as to let you choose the components you need to build your infrastructures with:

• Class 5 features such as audio and video calls, chat, call centers, conferences, voicemail, etc.,
• Class 4 features like security, routing, load balancing, etc.

You can augment the platform and integrate it with your subscription and billing capabilities or any value-added services like Speech to Text, A.I. or sentiment analysis.

These communication infrastructures can be deployed and scaled on bare metal, virtual machines or containers.