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- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Beware of the TrixBox: Redux
- My post yesterday referencing Mercian Label’s saga of moving to Fonality’s TrixBox drew fire on both sides of the open source debate. TrixBox is a VoIP appliance that Fonally bills as installing "quickly in an all-in-one solution." Many were vehemently opposed...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Beware of the TrixBox
- Beware of the TrixBoxmisleading titlewell based on reading the article, it seems one ought not to necessarily beware of trixbox, but to beware of the HUD feature in certain circumstances or of poor network configuration and network interface settings.RE: Beware of the TrixBoxtrixbox deployments go well for those that have...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
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- 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...
- Case studies 2009-07-23
- News to know: More Kindle, Intel, IT Talent, Google energy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kindle 2 - It is what it...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Beware of the TrixBox
- For those of you thinking of cutting over to a packaged Asterisk solution, you'll want to read this account from Dr. Adrian Steele, the Managing Director of Mercian Labels, a UK SME specialising in short run label printing and...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- 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,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog
- What happens when you want to just want a bunch of phones in your business, hotel, or organization and you don't need a bunch of fancy and complicated features on the phone? It's simple, just get a bunch of cheap analog phones. But how do you build a phone system...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Voice over IP Foundations
- View Available Dates and Locations Gain essential data networking and Voice over IP VoIP knowledge in a single, week-long class. In this course, you will learn how VoIP works, why VoIP works, and how to use VoIP. On the first day, you will configure an IP network...
- Training 2008-01-01
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Can small business count on VoIP?
- Can small business count on VoIP?it's like the freewayThe phrase - "it's like the freeway" - says it all. When the nation was new there were many private road companies who attempted to charge for road use. All went bankrupt in part because those using the toll roads could bypass...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Skype is back (for some); damage to reputation is done
- Skype is back for some; damage to reputation is doneMaybe this is just academically?Well, seems to me this is more important on the academic field than the business field I might be totally wrong. Skype I think is a very good example of the Second Media Age products, and the...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Fonality releases free VoIP phone system trixbox Pro
- Big announcements today from open-source business phone systems and solutions developer Fonality.Today marks the official release of trixbox Pro. Fonality is marketing the product as a free business-grade phone system that lets business users with 5 to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls. What this means: more pressure on residential-VoIP providers as they...
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Have any favorite open source Windows apps? Tell us!
- Have any favorite open source Windows apps? Tell us!Primo PDF is NOT open sourceIt's not open source, you can't download the code whatsoever. The license even forbids this explicitly. Free != Open SourcePrimo PDFWe have been installing PrimoPDF on all the computers here at work for the users that do...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- CPT-Master 2 (Windows)
- Incorporating the World PSTN Tone Database, CPT-Master provides convenient generation of Call Progress Tones for telephony developers and telco engineers. Simply load a preset setting (about 1,700 records for more than 190 countries), or specify your own custom tone by entering frequency and cadence strings. The trial version is fully...
- Software downloads 2007-05-16
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Open source in the post-telephony era
- We are firmly in the post-telephony era. (Image from the BellSystemMemorial.) On buying BellSouth, AT&T executives spoke of selling "bundles" of service, wireless being the most important, and of using ads as a primary revenue stream. They were combining the land lines business as a by-product -- local, long distance,...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Why have a phone network?
- That's the question that constantly occurs to me when talking with folks like Fonality founder Chris Lyman.Fonality today announced trixbox 2.0, a new version of its open source PBX software, featuring a new Graphical User Interface GUI to make installation and integration easier.The irony here is that Fonality's business model...
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
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