Digium Asterisk World Demo Theater from Past ITEXPO Event in Miami, FLTMC is thrilled to have Digium Asterisk World return to ITEXPO this February 2-4, 2011 in Miami, FL. Here is a quote from Digium from a press release which...
Astricon - the "All Things Asterisk" event kicked off to standing-room-only crowds this AM. Check it out:More coverage: What is Asterisk - AstriCon 2010 Opens AstriCon 2010 Kicks Off with SRO Crowd ...
Much of my team is at Astricon this week and if you want to keep up with all the happenings in the open source communications space you may want to be there as well. Here are the details...
A major area of communications growth is taking place in the open-source market and a tough economy only throws more fuel on an already raging open-source communications fire.Asterisk is the major player in the space and the company behind...
To all my readers, Happy New Year. Please feel free to take advantage of these special conference & expo rates (check out these low travel rates as well) as my gift to you. I hope to see you at the...
Updated 7:56 PM EST, April 20, 2009We are in what we may want to call an open-source friendly economy and in such a market companies are more likely than ever to be persuaded that free software is worth serious consideration. But...
Bill Miller recently blogged 5 reasons to attend Digium Asterisk World in Miami in just under three weeks - Feb 2-4 to be specific. Tom Keating - the consummate competitor had to add one more reason but Bill and Tom...
As a major supporter of open source -- especially in the communications market, I cannot be more thrilled to announce that Digium will be co-hosting Digium/Asterisk World at ITEXPO this February in Miami. It is well-known that open source companies...
I have often discussed how well the open-source communications market is doing and certainly the success of Asterisk/Digium is a good indication of how the market is today and where it might be headed. A while back I visited Digium's...
Behold the open source communications wars. In this corner weighing in at millions of downloads is Digium... A Huntsville, Alabama purveyor of all things Asterisk... From training to support to hardware, you name it.In the other corner with decades of...
The open source world of communications is growing rapidly. Recently I discussed the Nortel acquisition of PingTel and what this means for our markets.Ironically the competition in open source was once between Digium and PingTel and when Asterisk became the...
Years back -- in the mid-late nineties in fact I came across Pingtel, a company who saw the oncoming VoIP revolution (we called it IP telephony back then) and decided to place their bets on this burgeoning market by...
I just got off the phone with Bill Miller who handles product management for Digium and I found out I called during a celebration lunch the company is having to celebrate a record quarter. This seems like great news for...
Did you know Caller-ID information is still potentially being sent -- even when Called-ID is blocked? If you have an Asterisk box and use certain SIP trunking providers, you can actually recover Caller-ID information that was not supposed to be...
Greg Galitzine broke the news regarding the new Digium Switchvox AA300, a new appliance dedicated to companies with about 150 users. The box also supports 45 simultaneous calls, 10 recorded and 15 simultaneous conference calls. Tom Keating speculates about...
Perhaps one of the biggest misperceptions among those who dabble in communications is that Asterisk is only used in small business environments. The reality is that Asterisk is being used in service provider environments as well. Of course this doesn't...
Yesterday's podcast with Digium's CEO Danny Windham is getting a good deal of exposure and a number of people have been commenting on it to me. There is also a related article written by TMCnet's Susan Cambpell worth reading. For...
How does a company go from being a leader in the open-source communications space while simultaneously looking to generate revenue? Even open-source purists realize that companies supporting this movement need a way to generate earnings. Digium, the sponsor and maintainer...
Yesterday I posted a podcast with the team from The VoIP Connection and in the interview we got to talking about the Asterisk bumper sticker. Of course I was shocked to hear there was such a thing but sure enough...
Good news for the open source market as Digium now offers a slew of new warranty related announcements meaning that purchasers of Digium software and hardware will get better warranties and and a money-back guarantee if a product does perform...
If you have any doubt that there is tremendous interest in open source communications consider the fact that Digium has recently announced the one millionth download of Asterisk – the open-source PBX. Yes, that is “One million!” This...
If you haven’t been watching lately there has been lots of activity in the IP PBX and networking space from 3Com and Digium. Here is a recap. 3Com was recently purchased and a minority investor was China’s Huawei....
Some people don’t hold back. If they like you or they don’t you know it right away. Others are diplomatic. Well Tom Keating loves Asterisk… And to back it up he has 10 reasons. There are so many top 10...
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...