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iPhone Meets Asterisk

How do you get really interesting unified communications capabilities into your iPhone? Simple. Well it is simple if you have a trixbox-based phone system. Tom Keating has the details of getting the iPhone to work with your asterisk-based phone...

Posted on July 18, 2007 4:52 PM

Digium Fine Line

There is a fine line between competing with partners and ensuring your company can continue to grow so it is strong enough to keep the R&D going to ensure your partners do well. Microsoft, SalesForce.com, Intel and now Digium all...

Posted on July 12, 2007 8:21 PM

Digium Acquires Sokol & Associates

Digium just acquired Sokol & Associates the company behind the successful Asterisk training program and the Astricon trade show. This further reconfirms the idea of Digium being “everything Asterisk,” a concept espoused in a recent interview with the company’s news...

Posted on July 11, 2007 9:34 AM

ShoreTel IPO

ShoreTel hit it big with an IPO which jumped 27.5% on it’s opening day. The IPO was derailed last week as a result of a lawsuit filed by Mitel. The company closed the day at $12.15, after the company priced...

Posted on July 5, 2007 9:01 PM

Packet Island

Packet Island Redefine Network Management   “It is not just about kbps” is the statement ringing in my head after a discussion I had at TMC’s Communications Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA last month with Praveen Kumar the co-founder...

Posted on June 19, 2007 11:44 AM

Sangoma: From Open Source to Unified Communications

I recently had a chance to speak with David Mandelstam at the Communications Developer Conference last month in Santa Clara, CA. Sangoma was one of the highlights at the show as the company had produced a few record quarters in...

Posted on June 19, 2007 3:57 AM

Nortel on Open-Source Communications

Tony Rybczynski – affectionately known within Nortel as Tony Ryb is one of the top thought leaders in the communications space and has been with Nortel as long as I can remember. He has also been a TMC columnist...

Posted on June 6, 2007 12:36 PM

Communications Developer Show Daily

Here is the first show daily from the Communications Developer Conference taking place next week. Many have told me they are thrilled TMC is sponsoring such an event as there needs to be a single place the communications industry can...

Posted on May 11, 2007 3:41 PM

Asterisk Fuels Speech Technologies

If open-source telephony is going mainstream as I recently wrote about, then the subsets of open-source telephony are also booming. For example, speech recognition in the open-source world is becoming more and more important. Case in point, a company called...

Posted on May 11, 2007 12:34 PM

Open-Source Telephony Goes Mainstream

In the last few years the communications industry has been taken by storm through the invention of an open-source communications platform named Asterisk invented by Digium (www.digium.com) founder Mark Spencer. An article written for the January 2004 issue of Internet...

Posted on May 8, 2007 11:59 AM

Open-Source Call Center

It would seem the open-source call center market is beginning to heat up with a new call center offering from Fonality aimed at companies with between 2-200 seats. The product, PBXtra Call Center is includes capabilities such as branch office...

Posted on May 4, 2007 7:50 AM

NTT Resells Asterisk

NTT will be reselling Asterisk/Digium products in Japan. This is a pretty big deal for Digium and it shows the true global nature of open-source communications....

Posted on April 30, 2007 6:54 PM

Trixbox/Fonality at Communications Developer

I have just received word Kerry Garrison will be speaking at TMC’s Communications Developer Conference to take place next month in Santa Clara, CA. Kerry is the Sr. Product Manager at Trixbox and works intricately with the open-source development community....

Posted on April 30, 2007 6:42 PM

Trixbox Buyer’s Club

Airlines have frequent flyer programs. Hotels have them. Credit cards have them. I am sure you were wondering why the open source communications community to date has not thought to also have a frequent buyer program. C’mon. Be honest. I...

Posted on April 18, 2007 8:23 PM

Octware

Sounds Great, Less Filling   Octasic is well known in the world of echo canceling – a market which is not discussed too often but is important for enabling crystal clear, echo-free conversations. The company is known for providing...

Posted on March 27, 2007 6:23 AM

Asterisk Appliance

  Once of the more interesting areas of growth in the VoIP market has been that of open-source appliances. I had a chance to see the Asterisk Appliance from Digium which they deem is a full-featured and cost-effective way to...

Posted on March 26, 2007 9:58 AM

Dialogic & Aculab Focus on Growth

Please enjoy the April 2007 Publisher’s Outlook from IMS Magazine:   ---------   DSP Resource Board Vendors Expand Focus   The last few weeks has seen an explosive amount of news in technology and communications and trying to justice to...

Posted on March 13, 2007 3:49 PM

Xcerion

XML Development – Full Steam Ahead   I am astounded at how the open source community thrives on mostly volunteer work from a loyal fan base. Asterisk is a great example of how the power of a private company, Digium...

Posted on March 10, 2007 12:19 PM

Intel Investment in Fonality

I am a bit confused as I read the news on Tom’s blog about Fonality getting a cash infusion from Intel Capital. With this investment, Intel is investing in technologies such as telecom that encourage the use of Intel processors....

Posted on February 7, 2007 6:00 PM

New Digium CEO

Mark Spencer is a competitive weapon at Digium and is well-liked by many in the open source community. It was evident to anyone who knows Mark that he is spread thin as a coder, manager, chief strategy officer and company...

Posted on January 30, 2007 11:46 AM

The 50 Most Influential People in VoIP

I was very excited to learn today that I was honored to be part of The 50 Most Influential People in VoIP. The list starts with the Asterisk community followed by the FCC, Congress and Cisco. Further down the list...

Posted on November 13, 2006 6:51 PM

Pactolus

Many in the industry have told me how concerned they are about the open-source telecom movement and how the margins in the telecom business are being stripped out. But in the brave new world of the internet companies like Skype...

Posted on November 8, 2006 4:56 PM

Tadiran and Digium Interviews

If you haven't had a chance, please take a look at some of the latest executive suite interviews. One is with Ron Bregman of Tadiran. This Israeli-based company has been in telecom for many years with a reputation for bulletproof system...

Posted on October 3, 2006 5:36 PM

Pika Introduces Skype VoIP to Asterisk

Two of the biggest trends in IP communications are Skype and Asterisk. There is just something so compelling about the free model --consumers and enterprises can't seem to get enough of either of the products these two companies offer.But what...

Posted on October 3, 2006 10:07 AM

Bandtel

Out of the many areas in the IP communications space worth watching, I think SIP trunking (see TMCnet's SIP Week in Review for lots more info on the SIP trunking market) is among the more interesting. I say this because...

Posted on September 25, 2006 6:17 AM