We sat down with the folks at FreeSWITCH today to get a little behind-the-scenes info now that they have just released version 1.0.1 of their open source telephony platform. If you don’t know much about FreeSWITCH, it was started as a project to be a telephony platform and designed from the ground up based on lessons learned during the development of Asterisk and hopefully avoid many of the problems that plague Asterisk today.

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch.  It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control [...]