Today GDS released GDS Voice Conferencing Solution for the Asterisk platform. GDS Voice Conferencing is a feature-rich enterprise voice conferencing solution built on top of native Asterisk MeetMe application. Amazing how many third-party companies are now developing applications for Asterisk. Indeed, within the VoIP industry we have the Skype Economy, and now we can add the "Asterisk Economy".

Here is a short overview:

• Multiple conference types (scheduled, recurrence, reservation-less)
• Intuitive web interface for conference management, personal contact management, user management and system administration
• Manage conference attributes like announce user leave/join, wait for marked user and associate contacts and its roles within the conference (listen only, admin mode etc.)
• Monitor live conferences (mute/un-mute participant, kick out participant, lock conference, view on line participants and its attributes etc.)
• Integrated personal contact management for simple invitation and notification
• Import existing contacts
• User roles based privileges
• Port resources management (TDM and VoIP)
• Recurrence and conflict conferences management
• Automatic email notifications and reminders
• API for integration with third party applications and more