Amit Bhayani - blog

SVN Merge

2011-12-15T21:18:00.000+05:30

Nice intro on svn merge http://www.sepcot.com/blog/2007/04/SVN-Merge-Branch-Trunk

Annual Mobicents Conference - 2011 - Sochi, Russia

2011-12-12T13:35:00.004+05:30

Concluded another wonderful Mobicents conference at Sochi, Russia. This time it was biggest every participation from community and customers, each presented about their projects/products and how they leveraged mobicents platform. Thanks to every one for joining and making this experience rich! A big thanks to Oleg who made immaculate arrangements! It was sad announcement from Rob Cardwell (JBCP

Mobicents SMPP 1.1.0.CR1 Released!

2011-03-24T10:32:00.002+05:30

Here comes the new release of Mobicents SMPP 1.1.0.CR1!The Mobicents SMPP stack is implementation of SMPP Version 5.0 Specifications.This is follow up release of Mobicents 1.0.0.FINAL with following two minor fixesSMPP message does not support concatenated messages Sequence generation logic incorrect for SMPP Sequence Number Mobicents SMPP Home Page:http://www.mobicents.org/incubator/smpp/

Mobicents Face-2-Face meet Antalya Sept 2010

2010-10-08T13:15:00.008+05:30

I have to start with big thanks to Eduardo for such a wonderful arrangement and choosing best location Antalya, Turkey! But still nothing beats Mobicents meet at Varna in 2007 :PThis was first ever Mobicents meeting where not only all team members were present but also accompanied by customers, community users and partners. What works better than having direct feedback from customers?The meeting

Log4j observation and best practice

2010-09-17T10:42:00.005+05:30

Just today I realized that setting the Threshold value for logging level at appender has no effect on checking if lower levels are enabled for particular category.For example consider the log4j.xml config file as shown below <

Smart Techie March 2008 Article - Are you developing Converged Applications?

2010-09-13T20:28:00.001+05:30

An old article "Are you developing Converged Applications?" from Smart Techie Magazine

Mobicents Face-2-Face 2010 at Antalya, Turkey from 24th Sept to 30th Sept

2010-09-12T19:52:00.002+05:30

Its time of the year when Mobicents developer from across the world meet at one common place and brain storm on road-map for next year, achievement of past year, experiences, prospects etc. The annual Mobicents Face-2-Face was only for team members till now, but like true Open Source Spirit we have opened this meeting to all users, partners, or even non-users who wants to participate and get the

A week at Meraka, CSIR

2010-09-12T19:19:00.006+05:30

Last week Bartek and I had privilege to conduct Mobicents Platform training at Meraka, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Institute located in city of Pretoria, South Africa. The CSIR is South Africa's central and premier scientific research and development organisation in Africa. Constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1945 as a science council, the CSIR undertakes directed and

java.net.SocketException: Too many open files

2010-01-07T16:34:00.001+05:30

There is limitation on how any open file handles (this includes sockets too) OS can support. If this limit is reached, you get above exception. If you are on ∗ nix OS, this can be easily increased.Open /etc/security/limits.confI am on Ubuntu so for me I just execute following command from command linesudo gedit /etc/security/limits.confand add following two lines ∗ soft nofile 3072 ∗ hard nofile

Mobicents JAIN SLEE Server 2.x unites in league of JOPR Console!

2010-01-02T13:46:00.003+05:30

JBoss Operations Network (JOPR) is becoming the de-facto for managing suite of JBoss products and rightly so as it provides administration, monitoring, alerting, operational control and configuration in an enterprise setting with fine-grained security and an advanced extension model.Since Mobicents Sip Servlets Server is already having JOPR agent and we have experienced how easy it becomes when

IEEE paper on "Developing Converged Application using Open Source software"

2009-12-22T01:34:00.001+05:30

The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications was held at Best Western Premier Seri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 4th-6th October 2009. From RedHat/Mobicents I submitted paper on "Developing Converged Application using Open Source software" and presented the same on 5th October 2009. The paper is already registered in the IEEE Xplore database. The paper talks about

Encounter with JOPR

2009-09-24T19:29:00.003+05:30

There is a discussion for Mobicents Media Server 2.x.y Console requirements onwhether it should be built using Swing that can be installed on any machine and this stand-alone instance connects with Mobicents Media Server for statistics and configurationORuse standard JOPR server that almost all Mobicents project is using as de-facto and write agent that will monitor media server.In quest to

Mobicents Annual Meet at Brno Czech Republic - August 24 - 29, 2009

2009-09-04T08:03:00.009+05:30

Last week Mobicents core team met at Brno, Czech Republic to discuss the achievements and road-map of Mobicents platform. Some brain storming between all the projects and some learning and party at the end of the day is something that is equally important :)This time too it was as exciting as last year. This was third time Mobicents core team met, and each one of us did presentations of the

JBoss World 2009 - Chicago September 1-4, 2009

2009-08-16T09:24:00.001+05:30

Its time of year when JBoss World 2009 event will rock the stage! This time JBoss World and RedHat summit are hosted together. From Mobicents perspective, there are two sessions happening First is "Rapid VoIP development - SIP Servlets 1.1, Seam Telco Framework, JRuby on Rails, Eclipse VoIP tooling" that will talk about the framework/tools developed by Mobicents that can facilitate the faster and

Sangoma & Asterisk + SS7

2009-04-28T21:55:00.002+05:30

This is in continuation to my earlier blog on Asterisk + SS7Here I will jot down my experience on installing wanpipe drivers for new Sangoma A102 card. I bought this card for approximately 60000 INR which is approximately 1350 USD. Just FYI, if any of you guys planing to buy, not sure if its expensive?. I started with downloading Wanpipe drivers and downloaded the most recent 3.3.16 Beta version

Asterisk + SS7

2009-04-26T11:50:00.004+05:30

From last few days I am trying to set up Asterisk + SS7 with Sangoma A102 card on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine. This being my first time with Asterisk I was bit skeptical of things and was wondering if it will be smooth? Well, it wasn't really out-of-box, but it wasn't tough either. Here I will try to explain step-by-step of what I did, challenges I faced and solution for same.First of all keep in mind

Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-21T10:41:00.003+05:30

Its that time of the year when students across the globe gets an opportunity to participate in Google Summer of Code and get paid for executing the project that they always wanted to. This year too RedHat/JBoss has participated and has been accepted as Mentoring Organization.Follow the RedHat page for GSoC 2009 here There are many ideas that have been listed by JBoss here The Mobicents Media

Mobicents Media Server has new home

2009-02-06T15:01:00.001+05:30

Mobicents Media Server now has its very own personal blog ;0) http://mobicents-media-server.blogspot.com/. All the discussions about MMS roadmap, architecture discussion, design, release notes etc will go to this blog.Many more news to follow on MMS front, stay tuned!

Mobicents Media Server 1.0.0.CR5 a step closer to GA (Stable) release

2009-01-29T19:34:00.000+05:30

With the latest release of Mobicents Media Server 1.0.0.CR5 its just an inch away from finish line - GA (Stable) release. The CR4 was completely overhauled to achieve greater performance and CR5 is bug fix reported from CR4. In doing so there were number of modifications made such that the MSC API from Application Developers perspective doesn't change. The Announcement and IVR endpoint's in new

Media Gateway Control Protocol Stack Performance improved

2008-12-22T09:41:00.004+05:30

Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP, RFC 3435 and JSR 23: JAINTM MGCP API Specification) is the only piece as of now that connects the Mobicents Media Server (MMS) and remote application and hence the performance of MGCP stack is crucial for MMS to be called as GA (Stable). Before MMS CR4 is released, the team is doing everything possible to make MMS performance reach the magical figure. In

Performance of Mobicents Media Server 1.0.0.CR3

2008-11-21T12:24:00.005+05:30

Yesterday I did a performance test of Mobicent Media Server 1.0.0.CR3 on my laptop (Dell D620, Dual Core, 2GB RAM) with server and mms load test client running on same machine. The test was made for 50 concurrent announcements of an average length of announcement 3.74 Seconds. The codec used by UA test client was G711 A-law. The test lasted for 34487595 seconds or 9.58 hours (I stopped test and

A week at MTN, Nigeria

2008-11-15T12:02:00.005+05:30

Just finished a four day JBCP training at MTN, Nigeria. This was getting delayed for quite sometime and finally I had an opportunity to meet the brightest of guys. It was really fun spending four days with this team and class was very interactive with lot of questions & answers and brainstorming. The best part is this training made everyone of us rethink the power of open source and how quickly

Mobicents Metamorphosis

2008-10-03T20:13:00.004+05:30

The mobicents team meet at Munich on 16th September 2008 to discuss about the road map. Mobicents has transformed from just a JSLEE server to a multi dimensional Telco middle-ware platform in very short span of time, to be precise 1 year. The 5 days face to face meet with all the core developers produced quite useful discussion on how to proceed with various standards on Telco middle-ware. All

Tested my SIP enabled mobile phone with Mobicents Server

2008-07-09T17:32:00.003+05:30

Today I tested my SIP Enabled Nokia N95 phone with mobicents JAIN SLEE server. It was amazing how easily it integrated with Mobicents and the voice quality was on par with my service provider. Here are the steps in case you too want to give it a tryStart mobicents server and bind it to your actual IP addressDeploy SIP RADeploy the sip-services with initial invite as trueNokia N95 settingsGo to

JAIN SLEE / SIP Servlet becoming obvious choice

2008-05-20T15:19:00.002+05:30

Recently one of the Indian ISV's MoBitE Technologies started providing consultancy on JAIN SLEE. If you visit Mobicents Partners pages, it already lists 4 companies around the globe who is working on Mobicents suite of products.The Operators are getting aggressive on their plan of embarking on Next Generation Network and JAIN SLEE becomes the obvious choice. While Mobicents/RedHat provides the

Mobicents is now maven'ized

2008-04-20T14:59:00.001+05:30

Mobicents team has mavenized all their code including Mobicents SLEE Server, Sip Servlet Server, Media Server, XDM Server and all the examples. This could be a bit painful for users who are deep into ant and never looked at maven before. However once you start using it you will realize the power of maven and will understand the principle of maven of managing a project's build, reporting,

Review of book 'Internet Multimedia Communications Using SIP'

2008-03-24T11:12:00.001+05:30

Last week I completed book Internet Multimedia Communications Using SIP from Rogelio Martinez Perea. This book is definitely recommended for beginners trying to learn SIP, even veterans can clarify their doubts using this book. The book points to all the RFC and JSR's where ever applicable and hence acts as good reference. Book refers to Mobicents as open source implementation of JAIN SLEE and

Presentations on Mobicents and JAIN SLEE

2008-02-29T17:36:00.001+05:30

The Converged Application presentation at JBoss World 2008 is now uploaded, follow the link http://www.jbossworld.com/downloads/pdf/friday/2-25_NEW_Web_2_and_Communications_Building_Converged_Applications_Amit_Bhayani_JBoss.pdfThe JAIN SLEE presentation at IndicThreads Conference 2007 (Video) is uploaded, follow the linkhttp://www.indicthreads.com/videos/1157/java_jslee_j2ee_voip.html

JBoss World 2008 - Orlando, Florida

2008-02-24T20:27:00.006+05:30

-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> This JBW event was the biggest in JBoss history with 700+ attendees from all over the world and fortunately this was the first one that I too got a chance to attend. I was also a speaker for Mobicents technology. The presentation 'Web 2.0 and Converged Application' would be uploaded soon http://

JBoss Communication Platform creates buzz in India and Indian sub continents

2007-10-30T22:33:00.000+05:30

22nd Oct 2007 - Delhi, IndiaOne of the newspaper reported that India has 250Mn user using either Mobile or Fixed line telephone. And if the momentum continues then by 2010 there will be 500Mn users. Double in 3 years!!!Along with Tom (Director of Telcom Domain, RedHat) we visited few of the top Telco operators in India to understand what is their view on Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and what

HTTP Client Review

2007-07-29T15:35:00.000+05:30

HTTP Client from Apache (http://commons.apache.org/httpclient/) is well known api and is in use mostly for testing the web application. However over the time HTTP Client has become mature and can be integrated with any application built using Java. While I have used HTTP Client for one of the Resource Adaptor's for Mobicents http://groups.google.com/group/mobicents-public/web/

SIP integrated with SOA answer to Intelligent JEE Application

2007-05-16T21:36:00.000+05:30

With evolution of telecommunication the demand for real time communication is increasing day by day in any JEE application. For example as soon as user makes any bank account transaction using bank's online portal the portal should send a SMS to phone registered against that user. As soon as there is checkout in shopping portal by a customer the details of Order should reach to administrator

Test

2007-05-09T23:18:00.000+05:30

This is test blog