Tested my SIP enabled mobile phone with Mobicents Server

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 try

1. Start mobicents server and bind it to your actual IP address
2. Deploy SIP RA
3. Deploy the sip-services with initial invite as true

Nokia N95 settings

1. Go to Tools -> Settings --> Connection --> SIP settings
2. Create a new profile

• Profile : User1
• Service Profile : IETF
• Default access point : your WiFi access point
• public user name : sip:user1@nist.gov
• Use Compression : No
• Registration : Alway on
• Use Security : No
• Proxy Server

• Proxy server address : sip:192.168.0.102 (My mobicents server was bound to 192.168.0.102)
• Realm : user1
• username : user1
• password : user1 (doesn't matter actually)
• Allow loose routing : yes
• Transport type : UDP
• Port : 5060 (The SIP RA is listening at this port. This could be 5070 for you if 5060 is blocked)

• Registrar Server:

• Registrara server address : sip:192.168.0.102
• Rest of it same as proxy Server.

The other SIP UA that I used were Twinkle and XLite.

The only caveat is you don't have the WiFi at all the places ;0)

JAIN SLEE / SIP Servlet becoming obvious choice

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 infrastructure, Mobicents Partners can provide the development help to Operators. Mobicents is increasing its range of products from core JAIN SLEE Server, SIP Servlet Server, Media Server, XDM Server and now the latest addition is Presence Server. With so many products and many standards it makes sense to involve the experts who understands the products better. The RedHat ISV Partnership program makes sure that these partners are up-to the mark and end customers can rely on them.

Mobicents is now maven'ized

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, doccumentation from a central piece of information known as pom.xml

For beginners look at link http://maven.apache.org/users/index.html

I have briefly looked at book Better Builds with Maven and can recommend for starters.

Review of book 'Internet Multimedia Communications Using SIP'

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 NIST SIP stack as implementation of JAIN SIP. In fact all the examples are built using the JAIN SIP stack and Java Media Framework (JMF) for media. This shows how Open Source is making an impact in VoIP world :)

The part that I felt could be improved is the explanation of SIP Transaction Sub Layer.

Presentations on Mobicents and JAIN SLEE

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.pdf

The JAIN SLEE presentation at IndicThreads Conference 2007 (Video) is uploaded, follow the link
http://www.indicthreads.com/videos/1157/java_jslee_j2ee_voip.html

JBoss World 2008 - Orlando, Florida

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://www.jbossworld.com/downloads/presentations/. It was fun to meet all the JBoss developers, but the most exciting part was to meet most of the team members of Mobicents

The Mobicents Team!!

Left to right

Alex, Bartek, Luis, Eduardo, Vladimir, Amit and Jean

We are already 9 in Mobicents team and have out numbered any other individual team within JBoss. Quite a few guys were surprised to know that Mobicents has such a big team! But what they don't realize is Mobicents has number of sub-projects which in itself is huge. Here is the list

1. Mobicents Core – SLEE implementation

2. Sip Servlets implementation

3. XDM Server

4. Media Server

5. There are number of Resource Adaptors

6. Mobicents Management Console

7. Eclipse IDE Plugin

The speech on 'Web 2.0 and Converged Application' was good, specially the Convergde Demo at the end excited the attendees! There is definitely a paradigm shift with introduction of Open Source implementation of JAIN SLEE (Mobicents).

JBoss Communication Platform creates buzz in India and Indian sub continents

22nd Oct 2007 - Delhi, India
One 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 they feel about next generation communication. It was pleasing to hear that these companies have already started to think unconventional and provide convergence of voice, video and data to their end customers.

The JBCP (Mobicents Project) offering from RedHat provides exactly the same platform that these companies are looking for. In fact most of the SDP's that are used are proprietary and you need to pay tons of $ to use these. While status quo is Open Source, the Operators are realizing that embracing technology like JBCP can save lot of their money which they can spend to create further value for their end customers.

23rd Oct 2007 - Delhi
RedHat organised the Telco event which was attended by at least 100 people from different verticals like Operators, ISV's, OEM's, NEP's and RedHat partners. The flow of the event was on how JBCP can help each of these verticals and how creating an EcoSystem across JBCP can be the win-win situation for all of us. After the event I did a demo on Converged Application where I used Seam DVD example which fires an event to JAIN SLEE (Mobicents) and the service logic within Mobicents (SBB) makes a call to user asking to confirm the order placed online. The user is asked to press 1 to accept and 2 to decline. The communication between JEE and JAIN SLEE happens in asynchronous fashion. SBB uses the TTS RA, Media RA and Persistence RA to complete the business cycle.

24th Oct 2007 - Colombo, Srilanka
Srilankan community has adopted open source long back and are already aware of its benefits. Tom and I meet few of the top telco operators including Dialog and STL. Its mind boggling to see how the country is advancing in terms of telco technology and even India's no 1 operator Airtel will be starting the service soon in Srilanka. Just like we expected they were very much interested to understand the SDP offering of RedHat and how they can leverage the open source with JBCP. The Telco event organized by Manoj (Country Manager, Srilanka) was simply amazing and was attended by 115+ guys.

26th and 27th Oct 2007 - IndicThreads, Pune
I attended the IndicThreads conference with very high note on 26th Oct, but was disappointed to see most of people from service industry only. Presented on JAIN SLEE technology on 27th Oct 2007 which was attended by few guys. The presentation material will be uploaded by IndicThreads soon on http://conference.indicthreads.com/

In fact as we speak the first release of JBCP is already uploaded on JBoss repository for you to download and try http://repository.jboss.com/jboss/jbcp/