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What works, what doesn't

What works, what doesn'tYou forgot an important pointThat is, once any software base finally stabilizes, force an upgrade to a new super shiny alpha implementation down everybody's throats. This is called the bullsiht baffles brains scenario.Rough figures that I've come across are that 80% of people aren't really capable of...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Asterisk PBX, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Will telcos accept an open source switch?

Will telcos accept an open source switch?Yeswhen they can call it their own, make loads of money off of it, patent what they can to make their part future payment secure, and piggyback the rest like a free ride.RE: Will telcos accept an open source switch?How does this this product...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, FS developer, Asterisk PBX, open source, telecommunications company, FreeSwitch

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Digium Asterisk-Vyatta VoIP solution poses threat to Cisco and others

Digium Asterisk-Vyatta VoIP solution poses threat to Cisco and othersI would be scared...If I were Cisco, plus I would add Avaya Lucent and Nortel, just to name a couple of large telecom PBX companies. We have deployed 5 Astersik based PBX in our company at 4 of our regional offices,...

Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Asterisk PBX, Cisco Systems Inc., Digium Asterisk-Vyatta VoIP solution, PBX, VoIP Solution

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

How open is Asterisk?

Earlier I wrote about Trixbox, an Asterisk PBX, and a good example of what open source is doing to telephony. Well, a good argument broke out about just this topic at the Dave Farber list recently, one I think is worth discussing. The argument was over how open Asterisk is....

Tags: Asterisk PBX, telecom, VOIP, Standards, Implementations, Development, Applications, General

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Cheap Firewall or PBX appliance for $93

With all the great open source appliance software available for free such as Asterisk PBX or IPCop/Copfilter, it doesn't do you much good if you don't have a box to run it on.  You can certainly use an old and noisy desktop computer or even build a...

Tags: Asterisk PBX, PC, Security, Infrastructure, Networking, Servers, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Linux, Virtualization

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Tutorial shows how to configure P2P SIP dialing on your Asterisk PBX

Tutorial shows how to configure P2P SIP dialing on your Asterisk PBXSIP.eduThis article ("Tutorial shows how to configure P2P SIP dialing on your Asterisk PBX") talks about calling a user with SIP URI. In Microsoft Windows Messenger, we call it "calling by email address". The original idea was...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Peer to peer (P2P), Asterisk PBX, SIP.edu, P2P SIP, P2P

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Additional Resources

The best VoIP solution is ...

What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

What's Missing from Shoretel's Skype-for-SIP Deal

Skype just announced that Shoretel became the first vendor to achieve Skype-for-SIP interoperability. The move will allow Skype clients to function as end nodes on a Shoretel PBX. While significant, the deal misses out on some key capabilities much desired by Shoretel customers. Skype-for-SIP was the SIP...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., ShoreTel, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), VOIP, Telephony, Emerging Technologies, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-09-09

LoudHush 1.3.21 (Mac)

LoudHush is a softphone application for Mac OS X. It functions as an IAX client for the Asterisk PBX. With LoudHush you can initiate and answer, hold and transfer voice calls using your computer.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Consulting, LoudHush, Outsourcing, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Payworks Uses Microsoft Platform and Open

Payworks Payroll Services provides online payroll and human resource outsourcing solutions to midsized organizations. The growing firm was coping with system downtime and rising maintenance expenses for its legacy PBX-based platform and needed to reduce communication costs for its 100-member call centre, which receives up to 400 calls per day....

Tags: Platform, Microsoft Corp., Call Centre, Payworks Payroll Services, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-08-10

VOIP reaches end of its proprietary era

VOIP reaches end of its proprietary eraVoIP was never proprietary, Skype IS.VoIP is not and has not been proprietary since almost the beginning. It is Skype's implementation of VoIP that is proprietary. Both their signaling protocol and their Codecs.Most VoIP systems started out using H.323 standards and then migrated...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VioP, VoIP, SIP, Skype Technologies S.A., Asterisk

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

What's going on with Skype for Business?

Rumors coming out of Skype have it that the company is going to be taking a fresh look at the business market once again. Skype has long said that a large percentage of its customers are business users. I believe it. I've almost completely switched over to...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Asterisk, Smb/Sme, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Beware of the TrixBox: Redux

Beware of the TrixBox: ReduxNeeds to do everythingOpen Source must do both functionality and features. It's true trixbox 'hijacked' code with its own packaging. But so what? There are others trying to fill the void (ie. PBX-in-a-flash).FreePBX is the main web interface to asterisk and both of these are free...

Tags: Trixbox, Redux, FreePBX

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Rednecks, old computers, and TCO

Rednecks, old computers, and TCOThis site...http://www.dtschmitz.comruns on a 2001 Gateway Laptop model 450SX: 1.6GHz ATA 80GB drive 512MB RAM ATI Radeon LY openSUSE 11 Linux Apache MySQL Perl Movable Type CMS Asterisk PBX cron rsnapshot to an external USB WD 80GB MyBook in my home.GoDaddy $10 Domain Reg. Email: Google...

Tags: ROI/TCO, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Redneck, TCO, old computer, Linux, Murph, photograph, computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-07

SwitchVox 4.0: A Lesson in How Voice 2.0 Can Transform the SMB

Digium introduced a new version of it's Asterisk-based, IP PBX, SwitchVox  today. The new release is a great example of the kinds of features that Voice 2.0 makes avaqilable to even the smallest organizations. Through mashups and application integrations, SMBs gain screen pops with mapping and weather infomration, presence status,...

Tags: Phone, Voice, IVR, Small And Medium Business, Switchvox Switchboard, Unified Messaging enhancements-IMAP Integration, Switchvox Notifier-A Windows Desktop Client, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Smb/Sme, Fax, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Does open source control 18% of the PBX market?

Does open source control 18% of the PBX market?Open Source PBX studyThank you for your writing about our recent Open Source PBX study. Here?s the methodology that was followed. The number of Open Source PBX surveys conducted and completed for the research exceeded 7,000. Then our PBX...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, PBX, Open Source PBX, Does Open Source, open source, Asterisk

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

3Com VCX Solution Delivers Enterprise-Class VoIP Services to Small and Mid-Size Danish Companies

To capitalize on this budding market, Danish Private Branch eXchange PBX supplier TelIP set out in November 2004 to offer IP-based PBX solutions. Located in Arhus, Denmark's second largest city, the telecommunications company sought to provide small and medium-sized companies with integrated voice and data services at prices they could...

Tags: VoIP Service, 3Com Corp., PBX, 3Com VCX Solution, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2009-01-01

SIP is the future of telecommunications

SIP is the future of telecommunicationsahhh no mention of IAX(2)?IAX(2) is better than SIP... they just want to focus on what they have and not what they should be using.I cisco, but at times like this... it makes me wonder.RE: SIP is the future of telecommunicationsYep, you can buy a...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IAX2, telecommunications, SIP, Asterisk, IAX

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

AsteriskC2D 1.1 (Mobile)

Dial phone numbers on your deskphone or softphone via your iPhone. You'll need to be using an Asterisk PBX. Don't forget to set your configuration in the iPhone systems panels.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Rho, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2008-08-07

AsteriskC2DPro 1 (Mobile)

Dial phone numbers on your deskphone or softphone via your iPhone. Pro features include fonality and asterisk pbx support, and configure up to 4 dialers.

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Rho, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications

Software downloads 2008-08-07