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Six steps to future-proof your telephone system

Six steps to future-proof your telephone systemWhy don't you include a list of solutions not from Digium?How about a list of providers of these services, and not only what Digium offers. I tried getting these in the real world, but no business friendly solution for VoIP that was not more...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP, Digium, telephone system, phone

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Nine Ways VoIP 2.0 Can Transform the SMB

With the release of SwitchVox SMB 4.0 IP PBX, SwitchVox has added a number of integrations and mashups with mainstream applications. It's a good example of what voice 2.0 can offer the SMB. by David Greenfield

Tags: VoIP, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Telecommunications, Voice 2.0, SwitchVox, Mashups, IP PBX, Digium, Asterisk, David Greenfield

Image galleries 2009-02-02

Major open source telephony news: Digium buys Switchvox

This morning, I can reveal that Digium, the company that is the creator and primary developer of open source telephony platform Asterisk has purchased business phone systems solutions developer Switchvox. Yesterday, I spoke with Bill Miller, vice-president of product management for Digium. While...

Tags: Telephony, GUI, Digium, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Open Source, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-27

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

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

Digium announces Asterisk Appliance Dev Kit

Digium announces Asterisk Appliance Dev KitThis should change everything!As a firm selling Asterisk- We wlcome this deviceMikehttp://www.digiumcards.comNice for startersNice for digium resellers who have an actual office to display this inMatthttp://www.lemens-ts.com

Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk Appliance, Digium

Discussion threads 2006-09-13

Digium announces Asterisk Appliance Dev Kit

I'm a big fan of the open source Asterisk platform for developing and facilitating VoIP applications. It logically follows that I am pumped about Asterisk-leader Digium's announcement at Fall VON 2006 that it is getting ready to launch Asterisk Appliance.Front and center in the Appliance will be the $3,995.00 Asterisk...

Tags: Asterisk

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Additional Resources

Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source hand

Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source handDana, your dreaming. nt.StillFirst of all, I think everyone has seen earnings drop since November of last year. I don't think Microsoft's market share in relation to Linux has changed much over the last year. If someone can show me numbers...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software, Dana, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Taridium Displaces Legacy Telephony Solution at TT Electronics

TT Electronics integrated manufacturing services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TT electronics plc, a British owned global electronics group, with 23 main manufacturing sites worldwide, 7600 employees and revenue of £545m (US$1 billion) in 2007. In 1997 TT Electronics implemented a Toshiba phone system. By 2008 the phone system had...

Tags: Phone, Telephony, Taridium, TT Electronics Plc., Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities

Case studies 2009-07-23

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

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

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

Digium marketplace is one-stop shop for Asterisk developers

Let me admit up-front. I'm biased in favor of Digium. It's not just their location in out-of-the-way Huntsville, Alabama home of Space Camp, a few hours from my Atlanta base. If you're a market-leader in Huntsville, you have got to be good. It's also...

Tags: Developer, Web, Huntsville, Voice, Telecommunications, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-11

After a Vonage new features demo at CES, I am a bit less skeptical about them

Walking through the main Consumer Electronics Show exhibit hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, I chatted up some Vonage staffers at the booth. The chat-up resulted in me receiving a demonstration of two new Vonage features that have emerged from closed beta...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., VPortal, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Outlook, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Groupware, Hardware, Components, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Digium: as of this a.m., one million Asterisk downloads this year

Just a quick note this a.m. to mark that Digium The Asterisk Company has just announced its one millionth download in 2007 of its open-source  Internet telephony solution. This has been an upbeat year for Huntsville, Alabama-based Digium.  Four possible quarters this year now marks 24...

Tags: Solution, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Taridium Case Study: T4G

T4G Limited is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the highest certification, with expertise in five different competencies: data management; custom development, advanced infrastructure; information worker and Microsoft Business Solutions MBS. The company recognized that the success of their business required a new communications infrastructure that used VoIP (Voice over Internet...

Tags: SIP, Taridium, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Data Management, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies, Networking

Case studies 2007-10-17

3Com fills SMB niches with new IP Telephony products

Conversations I had with 3Com executives last week previewed some imminent rollouts of VoIP-enabling equipment for SMBs (Small to Medium Size Businesses  between 5 and 200 users. Officially announced today, the products reinforce 3Com's belief that niches exist in these segments for robust,...

Tags: IP Telephony, 3Com Corp., IP, Server, Small And Medium Business, VCX Connect 100, VCX Connect 200, Smb/Sme, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Unified communications vs. end user: enterprise IP battle lines are drawn

When it comes to IP-based communications in the enterprise, how much control should be vested in the unified communications server administered by IT- vs. the end user who should feel free to use and configure his or her own voice options?As was evident in the last Summit panel at VoiceCon...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Communications Server, IP, Skype Technologies S.A., Director, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-24