Norwalk CT, 21 July 2008 - Voiceroute announces version 1.3 of Druid, the innovative open source unified communications platform for IP telephony, mobile, IM desktop and web application integration at OSCON 2008. Druid 1.3 includes several significant new features like the launch of Druid SOAP API, language internationalization support for German French and mobile bridging with auto-attendant functionality. Voiceroute will be demoing Druid at booth #221 in the OSCON 2008 exhibition hall from 23-24 July 2008.

New features of Druid include:

• Druid SOAP API – the first Open SOAP interface framework for third party developers to develop feature rich unified communications applications based on top of Druid.
  Examples of UC applications based on Druid SOAP API
  • Druid iDesk (Integrated Desktop) – Adobe Air cross platform (linux, mac, windows) application
  • Call pop-up application that integrates with the notes, contacts and address book modules of SugarCRM
  • Clip-board click to call
  • Druid Communicator for Mobile platforms like Blackberry and iPhone
  • Google Android application for call records retrieval
• Druid supports internationalization for the below languages
  • German
  • French
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Vietnamese
• Mobile bridging with auto-attendant support - when receiving a mobile bridged call, you will be prompted to accept the call before taking the call. This is to prevent mobile provider voicemail from automatically answering the call, and forcing the use of Druid voicemail.

Druid is built on top of other proven open source projects such as Asterisk, Dojo toolkit (http://www.dojotoolkit.org), Dovecot and Jabber. Druid is a rich AJAX-based Unified Communications application that enable enterprises to easily deploy IP communications; plug and play IP telephony, unified mailbox (voicemails & faxes), mobile phone and instant messaging. Druid also supports the widest range of IP handsets, Asterisk based hardware devices and gateways.

The Druid open source project was launched on 14 Mar 2008 and has been downloaded thousands of times with over hundreds of forum users and developers. Druid has been reviewed by telecom blogger, Tom Keating of the TMCnet magazine
Druid TMCnet review

Innovation for the Administrator
Druid has been built with a focus on manageability, scalability, and performance. The Druid web application is compatible with IE and firefox. Druid lowers significantly the barrier of IP communications deployment for enterprise IT managers and system integrators. Key administrative features for Druid include:

• Plug & Play IP handset provisioning for Cisco, Polycom, Snom, Mitel, Aastra, Grandstream
• Hardware wizard that auto-detects and configures Zapata hardware from Digium, Sangoma, Rhino and Xorcom
• Complete AJAX based administration for many features of Asterisk© like auto-attendant, conference bridge, call recording
• VOIP trunk wizard to point and click configure SIP/IAX trunks from major VOIP providers

Innovation for the End-User
Druid brings significant innovation for the end user through our Druid web user portal – built on AJAX to bring communications to life; users can now view and return any missed calls using just one-click, the user can customize their voicemail messages by having the IP phone call them! Key features for end users include:

• Unified login for users to access their voicemail, faxes, instant messaging, web-portal, and soft-phone through a single login
• Web based Unified mailbox for both faxes and voicemails including IMAP client access support
• Customized communications; time based call routing, customized voicemail
• One-click to call for all call records (missed, received and dialed)
• Call recording portal to manage extension’s recorded calls
• Mobile Bridging where the user’s cell phone can park, transfer and record calls
• Instant Messaging based call control and text messaging with support for Open source clients like Pidgin (formerly Gaim)

About Voiceroute
Voiceroute (http://www.voiceroute.net) is a USA and Singapore based communications software company behind the world's leading Open Source Unified Communications project, Druid (http://www.voiceroute.org). Druid is the leading Open Source Unified IP Communications application that unifies plug and play IP telephony, Instant Messaging (IM), mobile phone, faxing and other communications media in an easy to deploy and intuitive platform. Key customers include Fortune 1000 enterprises as well as medium and small businesses particularly in the financial services, VOIP service provider, government, and higher education institutions. Druid (http://www.voiceroute.org) is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0.

Press Contacts:
Voiceroute LLC
Ming Yong, CEO
+1-866-915-2407 x301
ming@voiceroute.net
501 Westport Ave, Suite 280
Norwalk, CT 06851

The latest update to Druid OSE version 1.3.0 has been released in both CD and repository form. You can now download the latest version of the CD from the Download page.

Major Changes:

• Updated distribution to CentOS 5.2
• Druid SOAP API now formally released!
  • Access the WSDL page to configure your SOAP development environment. You can also access this page from a web browser to get 1-touch access to Documentation of various functions. Documentation has been completed for user level functions at this time.
    • http://demo.voiceroute.org/druid/druid.wsdl.php?usertype=regular or User-level functionality
    • http://demo.voiceroute.org/druid/druid.wsdl.php?usertype=admin for Admin-level functionality
    • Screenshot of Druid SOAP API WSDL page:
      
      Druid SOAP API Documentation
  • For community help on the SOAP API, please use the SOAP API Forum.
• Mobile bridging behavior has been changed quite a bit. Now when receiving a mobile bridged call, you will be prompted to accept the call before taking the call. This is to prevent mobile provider voicemail from automatically answering the call, and forcing the use of Druid voicemail.
• New language support:
  • German
  • French

Minor Changes:

• Dial voicemail directly for any user using *99 + extension. You can also use to transfer callers to user's voicemail.
• Fixed some issues with IAX trunking not configuring inbound and outbound properly
• New command line tool for creating backup in tools directory: create_snapshot. Can use this in conjunction with your favorite cron daemon to schedule periodic backups.
• Introductory integration of mISDN into Druid inbound and outbound dialing framework. mISDN still requires manual configuration of /etc/asterisk/misdn.conf; however, you can control routing and outbound dialing using Druid.
• Other various bug fixes

Voiceroute will be talking about Druid OSE v1.0.2.

Abstract
Druid OSE (Open Source Edition)is more than 1 month old! We have just release v1.0.2

People from Voiceroute on the call: Vikram Rangnekar, Navin Kumar, Ming Yong

Agenda for the call
1) New features added
http://forums.voiceroute.org/showpost.php?p=375&postcount=1
New Features:
i) Backup Manager (Snapshots)
ii) Improved Queue & Agent Management
iii) Static & Dynamic Agents
iv) Visual Real-time Status for Trunks, Stations and Extensions
v) Extended call recoding support for extensions, queues and conferences

Screenshots for Druid OSE is available from
http://www.voiceroute.org/druidose/screenshots

2) Things coming up (briefly touch on things)
- Druid SOAP API for external applications
3) Feedback, Q&A from users in general

We like to thank Randulo and Matthew Brothers of the VOIP user conference group for organizing this.

To get further details about the call and the VOIP user group, http://www.food4wine.ning.com.

The latest update to Druid OSE version 1.0.2 has been released it has a ton of bug fixes and new features.

For more information click here:
http://forums.voiceroute.org/showpost.php?p=375&postcount=1

Voiceroute has been covered by Singapore Business Times (http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/) featured on 31st Mar 2008 in the technology section of Business Times today. The article “Communications Firm Tap Open Source for growth” pdf article, describes the release of Druid, an open source and free version of their company’s flagship Unified Communications (UC) server software. Druid OSE is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL).