What is STIR/SHAKEN? STIR/SHAKEN (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited / Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) is a new technology that the telecommunications industry is using to help combat telephony fraud. We’ve all received spam calls, and some of us may have even received a call from a caller ID we recognized, but ended up
When transitioning from the chan_sip channel driver to chan_pjsip one of the items that can catch people off guard is the use of SIP URIs within PJSIP. This is because in chan_sip these are generated on your behalf based on different configuration options while in chan_pjsip we leave this up to the user. Let’s take
When PJSIP support was written for Asterisk we naturally needed the ability to display the SIP messages being sent and received. This took the form of the res_pjsip_logger module which hooks into the message sending and receiving path and logs the messages. The functionality was written to be familiar to users of chan_sip by allowing
Open source is becoming very prevalent in the software world, even if it’s not obvious. Your phone, your television, your smart speaker, and even your car is likely to use open source libraries and applications. In fact, a recent Tidelift survey showed that 92% of applications use open source libraries. One thing I’ve seen over
A couple of weeks ago, Dan Jenkins kindly wrote a guest blog post about Dana — an up-and-coming open source project which helps to highlight some of the great video-conferencing capabilities in Asterisk. In this blog post, I’d like to expand on that, and show you how to get a simple video-conferencing solution up and
In this troubling time of dealing with COVID-19 around the world we’re seeing more and more need for tools to help in communicating with co-workers, friends and family. Asterisk has historically proven itself as one of the key puzzle pieces when it comes to enacting change and evolution in the communications space. The power of
When stream support was added to Asterisk it was initially done with the focus being for SFU with a single video stream from each participant with the call starting out with video. This is a use case which is useful for a lot of people and has worked well. Coming soon, however, is the ability
When PJSIP publish and subscribe functionality was created we knew we wanted to provide a pluggable mechanism to allow modules to easily extend and add new bodies. The result of this is what is known as body generators. Given a set of data they convert it into a format expected by a device, such as
A comment that I see frequently when helping people with PJSIP is the lack of a general section (with global options) and how this causes their configuration to be larger than it needs to be. I thought I would take this blog post to explain some of the design choices that went into PJSIP configuration
We’re pleased to say that we’ve qualified pjproject 2.9 with Asterisk and that the recent 13.28 and 16.5 Asterisk releases have the bundled pjproject updated to the new version. All of the patches against pjproject 2.8 we’ve previously submitted upstream to Teluu (the maintainers of pjproject) were accepted but since the release of 2.9, we’ve
