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- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?FreeSWITCH is a great choiceBrian's experience is not an isolated one. FS is starting to gain momentum as people realize just how much it can do and how well it can do it. Prior to the 1.0.0 release we saw a trickle of new users,...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, open source, Asterisk, FreeSwitch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Is VoIP a good idea for small business?
- Is VoIP a good idea for small business?Another option...We have an Asterisk box running our PBX. We have some PRI cards from digium. What we do is run a T1 PRI line into the box. We have split it up 50/50 between 12 DIDs and the rest is...
- Tags: Telephony, Internet service providers (ISPs), Asterisk, PBX, AT&T PBX, VoIP, small business
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- The one thing Asterisk has been missing
- The one thing Asterisk has been missingAll well and good......if you don't mind living with potential GUI limitations and the vendor's restriction on access to *.conf and other Linux configuration settings for a 'turn-key' system.If you want the flexibility to configure any way you want (e.g., your hardware, your Linux...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Asterisk
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Fonality makes two major moves
- At the IT Expo here in Los Angeles, Asterisk-based open source business phone systems maker Fonality is touting HUD Heads Up Display, its immediately forthcoming $995 call management and display solution free with trixbox Pro Enterprise or Call Center Edition. That's HUD screencap...
- Tags: Fonality, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- VoIP security vulnerabilities demonstrated at Black Hat conference
- Several presentations at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas yesterday illustrated some of VoIP's security vulnerabilities.According to Forbes.com's Andy Greenberg, who was in attendance, the presentations documenented ways "in which cybercriminals can eavesdrop on VoIP calls, steal data from Internet telephony devices, intercept credit card numbers from...
- Tags: Security, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Asterisk pioneer Digium introduces subscription-based service
- Today, open source telephony pioneer Digium has introduced a new subscription-based service offering it says designed to give Digium Asterisk customers and partners faster, easier and unlimited access to Digium service and support.The service, which is being offered in Silver, Gold and Platinum levels, kicks off on the Digium...
- Tags: News, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Packet 8 takes leap forward with customized recording services
- In what I view as a promising and useful extension to Packet 8's enterprise-oriented VoIP service tools, the company has started to offer professional voice recording services to business users who subscribe to its 8,000-subscriber, Packet8 Virtual Office hosted iPBX phone service.Message3 on hold and voice production services vendor...
- Tags: Packet 8, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
- BULLETIN: "I have one" iPhone craigslist offers: $1,500 and rising
- With iPhone now on sale everywhere in U.S. except on the West Coast, I decided to hit several craigslists and see how much iPhone purchasers who claim to "have one in hand" are asking for.I found this offer from someone in suburban Chicago.And there's at least one $1500 from NYC:II...
- Tags: Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- The telecomm revolution will not be televised
- The telecomm revolution will not be televisedOKI've found a "new" columnist I can relate to and look forward to reading.Shrewd analysis and eyes-fully-open observation. Great combination.Keep up the good work, Dana.aloha . . .Lurking Even Bigger Than Asterisk: FreeSWITCHThe open source telephony ecosystem is definitely rocking and rolling. Asterisk...
- Tags: Telephony, FreeSwitch, Asterisk
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- The telecomm revolution will not be televised
- Maria Bartiromo of CNBC ticked me off the other day.It was in her introduction to the NxtComm show in Chicago, the successor show to Supercomm. She breathlessly described how "the industry's heavyweights" were there to "decide on the future of telecommunications."But the future doesn't come from there anymore.The future is...
- Tags: wireless, VOIP, telecom, Strategy, Infrastructure, Implementations, Hardware, General, Development, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Avaya said to be buyout candidate: will Asterisk benefit?
- Avaya, one of the leading players in IP Telephony hardware, solutions and consulting- may be positioning itself for a sale.The New York Times reports that Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Avaya is drawing interest from competitors Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks- in addition to private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.Fuel for this...
- Tags: Asterisk, News
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Digium Asterisk-Vyatta VoIP solution poses threat to Cisco and others
- A new joint marketing and development agreement between open-source router platform developer Vyatta and open source Asterisk VoIP solutions platform developer Digium holds lots of promise.This promise is largely an artifact of what both companies are bringing to the table.As Phil Hochmuth of Network World notes, Vyatta makes the Open...
- Tags: Asterisk, Cisco, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Asterisk open source company "not worried" about Microsoft patent heat
- Ever since the "patent infringement" hissing and dissing match between Microsoft and the open source community flared up earlier this week, I've been wondering how Asterisk open source solution providers are looking at this issue.True, none of the 236 open source patents Microsoft is claiming infringement upon directly relate to...
- Tags: Asterisk, microsoft, Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Microsoft vs. open source now spreading to VoIP?
- Paul at GigaOM writes about some new SIP-based, Microsoft office Communications software-compliant IP voice devices — phones, headsets, videocam monitors — being informally unveiled today at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in Los Angeles.Paul correctly sees this as a move on Microsofts part to break into the corporate VoIP...
- Tags: Asterisk, General, microsoft, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Get a full blown Mac for $299?
- Get a full blown Mac for $299?This is news ?I knew about this last week .One has to wonder......if Apple will patch OS X to be OEM'able so that it can be purchased and run on any of their equipment or at the user's discretion on another vendor's hardware.We can...
- Tags: Desktops, Asterisk, hardware, Apple Macintosh, server
- Discussion threads 2007-04-01
- Asterisk a major presence at VON 2007
- At the 2007 Spring VON (Voice/Video over Net) trade show in San Jose CA, Asterisk the Open Source PBX Telephony solution was a major presence. Digium which is the company behind Asterisk took up a large chunk of space on the show floor along with many Asterisk partners showing...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Phone Genie for Asterisk let's you take charge of your Asterisk system
- Phone Genie for Asterisk let's you take charge of your Asterisk systemhttps://Since this is the internet and you are including a password, would it not be propitious to be using SSL, https://....?Otherwise, the stream is clear text and can be intercepted along the way! Yes?A very interesting article nonetheless!Even https://...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), phone, Asterisk, httpS://, Phone Genie
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Phone Genie for Asterisk let's you take charge of your Asterisk system
- Today, Nerd Vittles introduced version 1.0 of Phone Genie for Asterisk.This is a freeweb utility that enables you to reconfigure just about everything on your Asterisk system on the fly. The ticket: a bundled-in HTML command language. You can do this via a web browser, or even a cellphone web...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- How open is Asterisk?
- How open is Asterisk?Impressive vote totalsWow -- out of three votes, 67% are for one and 67% are for the other.This helps explain a [b]lot[/b] about the quality of ZD Talkback forum usability.ProtocolsDo we not enjoy the benefits of open protocols?Is software development to an extent predicated upon underlying protocols?Everyone...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), OPEN SOURCE, Asterisk, codec, SIP
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
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