Will this be the year open-source PBX and VoIP systems are ready for their close-up? The opportunity is better than ever, argued attendees at January's Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami.

The open source-based IP PBX products were connected into our standard IP PBX test bed, which was configured with a subnet using an Extreme Networks Summit 24 L2/L3 switch simulating a typical ...

Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP ...

The Tarrytown, N.Y.-based distributor claims the online configurator is the first of its kind and is available to all Westcon Group resellers registered in its CollaborationPoint OpenSource program.

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Sales of traditional PBXs and key systems have moderated in recent years. Experts attribute this to a variety of factors. Companies, they report, are just keeping their phone systems longer. The wave ...

We tested the open source net.PBX Communications edition from Escaux. It is built on Linux Debian 2.6.18 and Asterisk 1.2 and ships preloaded on a 4U appliance with Digium analog or T-1/E-1 cards ...

In a move that might send shivers down the spines of mainstream IP PBX vendors like Avaya, Cisco and ShoreTel, Michigan CAT has deployed an open source Asterisk IP PBX to handle its phone calls and ...

Digium, developer of the Asterisk open source IP PBX software, has launched the Asterisk Appliance, PBX hardware running Asterisk and able to serve up to 50 users. The Appliance was foreshadowed last ...

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk ® -based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality ’ s award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium businesses, is based on a ...

If it is free, does it have value? Free for business application, the open source PBX also has risks, costs and limitations. I took a look at this phenomenon in my webcast, "Asterisk -- Is 'free' good ...

As TelcoBridges' TMG3200 Media Gateway integrates seamlessly within the Asterisk framework it can perform the media transcoding, signaling, call routing functions and connect the IP-PBX to the TDM and ...