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Yet Another Telephony Engine

Yate is a softswitch with PBX features, which can be disabled. Due to fact that is very flexibile
it can be integrated with other services like Web. It runs under Linux, BSD and Windows.

About Yate versions

Yate 3 alpha

• Mac OS X platform support
• Built-in Jabber server
• XML library using Yate classes
• SIP domains support
• Wideband audio support
• RTP stats, sends RTCP reports
• SSL support for remote manager connections
• Linux kernel SCTP support for SIGTRAN
• SIGTRAN M2PA implementation
• SS7 and ISUP improvments

Yate 2

• Support for more operating systems and hardware architectures
• Better integration in the target operating systems
• Easier interoperation with database schemas
• Support for more hardware interfaces and protocols
• Clustering, balancing and failover support, Linux-HA integration
• Improved client functionality
• Easier involvement of the Yate community
• MGCP for client-server and gateway control support added.
• SS7 support added
• ISDN new stack with passive recording support
• RBS and analogic cards support

Yate 1

Yate version 1 is a direct result of the work on the Yate09 development versions.
We added features, made lots of improvments and fixed many problems.

The following notable features are available:

• H.323 - using OpenH323 stack
• IAX - using Yate's IAX stack
• SIP - using Yate's SIP stack
• Jingle - using Yate's XMPP and Jingle stacks (from version 1.2.0, works as another server's external component)
• RTP - using Yate's RTP stack, works with the H.323, SIP and Jingle protocols
• hardware support for Sangoma and Digium boards - only digital lines (ISDN) - using libpri
• analog fax send or receive file in Linux (only from version 1.1.0)
• audio codecs - G.711, GSM, iLBC, many other in pass-through mode
• databases support - mysql and postgresql (all the other by using an external language)
• routing from a file using regexroute
• routing and authentication
  • from a database using register
  • from a file using regfile
  • from a RADIUS server
• call forking and fallbacks
• fallback routing from a database (starting with version 1.1.0)
• accounting and, or billing
  • in a file using cdrfile
  • in a database using register
  • to a RADIUS server
• conferencing - the number of participants is limited only by the server's hardware performance
• customizable PBX for switching between calls, putting them on hold and initiating transfers and conferences
• a skinnable, Gtk-2 based graphical client interface supporting many lines and accounts at once

Mailing list

• Yate mailing list

Latest stable release

• Yate 2.2

released on March 8th 2010, adds T.38 terminal support and includes performance fixes
for SIP and Qt client.

SVN repository

• Yate WebSVN

VOIP Today - Yate News

• FreeSentral (Yate based) Live CD V1.0 is available now. (8 Apr 2010 | 1:21 am PDT)
• FreeSentral is released! (13 Dec 2009 | 4:21 am PST)

Latest News

Yate 3.0.0 alpha 3 released on May 3rd 2010. It provides new features, performance improvements and bug fixes.

Supported operating systems

• FreeBSD
• GNU/Linux
• Windows
• ucLinux

Supported telephony hardware

• Sangoma
• Digium
• OpenVox
• Rhino Equipment
• ZapMicro

Downloads

• Yate download page

Support

• Yate documentation
• Mailing list
• IRC channel #yate on irc.freenode.net
• Commercial support from S.C. Null Team Impex SRL

Application Examples

• VoIP server
• VoIP client
• VoIP to PSTN gateway
• PC2Phone and Phone2PC gateway
• H.323 gatekeeper
• H.323 multiple endpoint server
• H.323<->SIP Proxy
• SIP session border controller
• SIP router
• SIP registration server
• Jingle server
• ISDN passive and active recorder
• IAX server and/or client
• IP Telephony server and/or client
• Call center server
• IVR engine
• Prepaid and/or postpaid cards system
• Jingle client or server
• SS7 switch
• ISDN , RBS , analog passive recorder
• MGCP gateway or server
• Luxvoice VoIP wholesale softswitch
• FreeSentral is a full IP PBX consisting of a Linux Distribution, an IP PBX and a Web Graphical User Interface for easy configuration.

Licensing

Yate is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) with an exception to allow linking with OpenH323 and PWlib, which are both licensed under MPL.

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