September 16, 2005
VoIP in educational institutions
The Robertson Education Empowerment Foundation (REEF) enables universities around the world to communicate via VoIP as a part of its Global University Phone System (GUPS) project. The universities will receive the necessary hardware and software that includes the Asterisk IP-PBX, which runs on Linux. This will enable communication within the university and between universities. SIPphone will extend technical support free and will also provide a directory service that will help in routing the calls correctly from PC's to phones.
UC San Diego, University of Philipines, UC Irvine are some of the universities that are a part of the GUPS scheme. GUPS plans to connect all the 12,000 major universities worldwide. GUPS has managed to connect universities that are using PBXs manufactured by different vendors such as Cisco, Ericsson, etc. Asterisk was preferred over SIP-specific IP PBXs as it functioned well with the T-1 adapter. The use of SIP and Asterisk by GUPS should educate people on the working of open standards, which should help in the spread of VoIP.
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