[OpenSIPS-Business] Introducing OpenSIPS 2.4

Wed Nov 1 13:16:12 EDT 2017

One more year, one more evolution cycle, one more OpenSIPS major 
release. So let me introduce you the upcoming OpenSIPS 2.4 .

For the OpenSIPS 2.4 release we decided to focus on the */clustering 
abilities/*. Today’s VoIP world is getting more and more dynamic, 
services are moving into Clouds and more and more flexibility is needed 
for the application to fully exploit such environments. But let’s pin 
point the main reasons for going for a clustered approach :

  * scaling up with the processing/traffic load
  * geographical distribution
  * redundancy and High-Availability

For the OpenSIPS 2.4 we laid down a roadmap that addresses the 
clustering both from the clustering engine itself (the underlayer) and 
from the functionalities that will perform on top of the clustering 
layer, to share data and state.

With OpenSIPS 2.4, it will never be easier to built a consistent and 
powerful clustered solution:

  * *clustering engine* – enhances the capabilities of controlling the
    cluster topology, like re-routing for bypassing broken links,
    dynamic joining of new nodes, support for multiple capabilities per
    node, data syncing between nodes and many more;
  * *distributed user location* – this is a very complex topic as it
    exceeds the simple concept of data sharing. By the nature of the
    data (the user registrations), you may have different constraints on
    how data is roaming in a cluster – registrations may be tied to a
    node due NAT or TCP constraints. Even more, a sharding aspect must
    be addressed when looking at distributing the pinging effort across
    the cluster. So, multiple solutions are viable here, depending on
    what is to be achieved (scaling, redundancy) and what are the
    network constraints – see a detailed presentation
    <https://www.opensips.org/Development/Design-Distributed-User-Location>
    of the available solutions;
  * *distributed presence server* – quite similar (but less complex) as
    the distributed user location, a distributed presence server
    provides a consistent, but distributed way of sharing presence
    information – SIP entities may publish data via different nodes in
    the SIP cluster, while the subscribers may fetch presence data via
    multiple various nodes. Two approaches are under work : (a) a
    cluster built around a noSQL DB based as primary data storage and
    (b) a cluster exclusively relying on OpenSIPS for data sharing;
  * *anycast support* – to be able to build a fully-flavored anycast
    support (addressing both redundancy and balancing) requires OpenSIPS
    to replicate/share transaction state across the nodes in the cluster
    (nodes sharing the same anycast IP). Depending on the nature of the
    replication (full transaction versus transaction meta-data) a full
    anycast and light anycast support will be available – here is a
    detailed description on the anycast
    <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q6FuBcS_mippQl8ABa2DcrhxRDRHGthvHXe1SlMF6e4/edit?usp=sharing>
    support;
  * *clustered media relays* – as OpenSIPS has the ability to work
    together with several flavors of media relays (such as RTPproxy,
    RTPEngine, MediaProxy), the clustering support will help OpenSIPS do
    distributed load-balancing over the relays – even if a relay is used
    by multiple nodes in the cluster, all the nodes will share
    information on the load on the relay, to avoid overloading or idle time;
  * *distributed call center* – an agent is able to register with
    multiple queues on different nodes on a cluster. Still, all the
    queues do share the status / availability of the agent and its
    statistics for call distribution;
  * *custom clustering* – the OpenSIPS clustering underlayer provides at
    script level the ability to broadcast (in the cloud) or send to a
    given node a custom message/action (with replying possibility) –
    this is a very flexible and powerful way to build your custom
    distributed functionality directly at script level.

And because we started on the integration path with OpenSIPS 2.3, and 
because we did it well, we decided to push forward on this path with the 
2.4 version as well:

  * more *Homer integration *to be able to report TCP statistics, DB
    events and media relay events via HEP;
  * *SIPREC integration* for standard call recording. The new SIPREC
    module <http://www.opensips.org/Documentation/Tutorials-SIPREC-2-4>
    provides a standard and transparent (for the call parties) way to do
    call recording against an external recorder like Oreka
    <http://oreka.sourceforge.net/> provided by Orecx
    <http://www.orecx.com>;
  * more *FreeSWITCH integration* in order to capture the call-events
    (DTMFs, call status) from FreeSWITCH into OpenSIPS script or for
    being able to control a FreeSWITCH call from OpenSIPS script via ESL
  * *Asterisk flavored* Load-Balancing for a more realistic and accurate
    traffic balancing over Asterisk clusters (as the load information is
    fetched in realtime from Asterisk);

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The timeline for OpenSIPS 2.4 is:

  * Beta Release – 12-16 March 2018
  * Stable Release – 23-27 April 2018
  * General Availability – 1st of May 2018, during OpenSIPS Summit 2018
    <http://www.opensips.org/events/Summit-2018Amsterdam/>

To talk more about the features of this new release, a public audio 
conference <https://www.uberconference.com/opensips> will be 
available on 21st of November 2017, 4 pm GMT 
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Introducing+OpenSIPS+2.4&iso=20171121T18&p1=49&ah=1> , thanks to 
the kind sponsorship of UberConference <https://www.uberconference.com>. 
Anyone is welcome to join to find out more details or to ask questions 
about OpenSIPS <http://opensips.org/> 2.4 .

This is a public and open conference, so no registration is needed, but 
if you want to announce your intention to participate, please let us 
know here:

http://blog.opensips.org/2017/11/01/introducing-opensips-2-4/

Best regards,

-- 
Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
   OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
   http://www.opensips-solutions.com

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