"While the project currently supports VoIP, telephony gateways, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR), its power lies in its scalability," says Null Team, adding that "voice, video, data and instant messaging can all run independently under Yate's flexible routing engine while interacting through a unified messaging system."
Yate is written entirely in C++ and supports scripting in various programming languages such as php and python. According to Null Team, it is organized into three major components:
- A generic core engine and classes that are not telephony-specific
- Generic telephony classes
- A large set of modules that implement specific low-level functionality such as hardware device drivers, tone generators, sound recorders, etc.
"Most commercial IVR applications such as call centers are Windows-based. This open source initiative will free developers from reliance on hard-to-use, proprietary solutions based on expensive hardware," says Sangoma Technologies CEO David Mandelstam. "Recognizing the inherent strengths of the Yate model we have offered our technical and financial assistance to offer this project to the large market that is dominated by Windows."
Sangoma manufactures a variety of PCI-based cards that provide T3/E3, T1/E1 TDM voice and data, ADSL, and serial interfaces. The products are used in TDM voice gateway, wanpipe router, and other Wide Area Network (WAN) and voice infrastructure applications, according to the company.
Yate can be downloaded
here.
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