Replaces Microsoft Teams
Iron Hall
Chat and meetings, wired into the phone system you already own.
Iron Hall is chat, video meetings and telephony in one place. The part Teams cannot match is the last one — it registers against the Asterisk PABX already sitting in your comms room, so your desk phones, extensions and numbers keep working.
Chat, meetings, telephony and voicemail are all working and have been proven against real phones and a real PABX. It stays in development until administrator multi-factor authentication is finished — we will not put it in front of a paying tenant before then.
- Chat
- Matrix protocol, end-to-end encryption available
- Meetings
- Audio and video, proven over real networks
- Telephony
- SIP bridge to Asterisk and FreePBX, per-tenant numbers
- Call handling
- Click-to-dial, presence, transfer, call records, voicemail
- Remote support
- Desktop control through MeshCentral
- Clients
- Browser today, desktop application planned
It speaks to the PABX you already have
Iron Hall registers as a real SIP endpoint against Asterisk or FreePBX, including busy-lamp field and message-waiting indication. Extensions, hunt groups and the numbers on your letterhead carry on working.
Click a name, the desk phone rings
Presence, click-to-dial and blind transfer work between the software and the handsets, so nobody has to choose between the two.
Take over a screen without a second product
Remote desktop control is part of the same system, which for an IT team means support happens in the conversation where the problem was reported.
Meetings that survive real networks
Audio and video run through a selective forwarding unit rather than peer-to-peer, which is what makes a call with more than three people hold together on ordinary connections.
Nothing copyleft in the stack
The chat server, the media server and the client libraries are all permissively licensed. That is a deliberate constraint, and it is what allows Iron Hall to be installed on hardware you own.
Three tiers of administrator
Tenant, reseller and platform administrators each see only their own scope, and every elevation of privilege is written to an audit log.
Listed so you can decide with the whole picture rather than discover it after signing.
- Multi-factor authentication for administrators — the gate that has to close before this is sold to anyone
- Rate limiting on privilege elevation
- The desktop application, for screen sharing at full fidelity