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Using monit Tool to Monitor Asterisk

Your IP-PBX is one of the most critical pieces of corporate infrastructure. It cannot afford any downtime, which is why the fives 9's (99.999%) of reliability was coined. While Asterisk is a pretty stable open source IP-PBX platform, it... Full Story

Posted on April 17, 2009 11:14 AM

AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 Released

AsteriskNOW 1.5.0, which launched as a beta in October 2008, is now available for download at http://www.asterisknow.org/downloads. Of course, existing AsteriskNOW users can simply run "yum update" to update to the latest release. I love 'yum' for Linux systems -... Full Story

Posted on April 1, 2009 8:45 PM

Digium Launches Support Services for Asterisk

Some big news from Digium. Rich Tehrani met with them yesterday to get the inside scoop. Rich takes copious notes on his iPhone, which he sent off to me to try and write up this news. Alas, I've been... Full Story

Posted on March 31, 2009 2:39 PM

Bring Out Your Dead! Wait! Skype for Asterisk is not dead!

Digium has an excellent post today titled The Rumors of Our Death discussing Skype for Asterisk (SFA) and the recently launched (beta) SkypeforSIP (SFS). There has been much discussion on the blogosphere, twitter, and elsewhere if SFS means the... Full Story

Posted on March 26, 2009 10:24 PM

trixbox 2.8 beta is out

In case you missed it, Andrew posted that trixbox 2.8 beta is available and is based on the latest version of Asterisk 1.6. Andrew, is even very complimentary over Asterisk 1.6 & Digum, which is nice to see coming... Full Story

Posted on March 26, 2009 9:54 PM

Finally! New Windows Mobile App AudioRoute Enables Earpiece for VoIP Apps

Finally a software tool called AudioRoute that can be used to route Windows Mobile audio from the earpiece speaker to the backspeaker and vice-versa. This is especially needed for VoIP applications on Windows Mobile phones.I've tested several VoIP apps... Full Story

Posted on March 26, 2009 12:16 PM

Google Voice Meet Asterisk

Nerd Vittles has another cool Asterisk recipe that combines Google Voice, voicemail transcription (via Google Voice), free calling, and of course Asterisk. Nerd does some packet sniffing and determines that Google Voice, powered by Grandcentral, is using SIP. What's most... Full Story

Posted on March 23, 2009 11:06 AM

MFC/R2 support added to Asterisk 1.6.2

Asterisk has just added 'official' MFC/R2 support for chan_dahdi. Here's the commit. The modifications to chan_dahdi, and the supporting library, LibOpenR2, were both written by Moises Silva. According to the commit: Many users are using this code, or a variant... Full Story

Posted on March 17, 2009 10:39 AM

SpinVox Transcribes Skype Voicemail & VoiceScribe does the same for Asterisk

Skype users can now have their voicemails converted into text via SpinVox. Today, SpinVox announced that your Skype voicemails transcribed and sent to you via SMS for €0.20/£0.17/25 cents plus the cost of the SMS. SimulScribe, now PhoneTag, is... Full Story

Posted on March 3, 2009 11:55 AM

PIKA WARP Appliance Adds BRI Support

PIKA Technologies announced today the release of a BRI expansion module for the PIKA WARP Appliance. The PIKA WARP Appliance is a very flexible hardware telecom appliance that can run various flavors of Asterisk, including native Asterisk, Schmooze, trixbox CE,... Full Story

Posted on March 3, 2009 9:25 AM

SHSU Switches Back to Cisco CallManager from Asterisk

In 2006, I came across a Network World article, which espoused the fact that Sam Houston State University (SHSU) had switched from the Cisco CallManager IP-PBX to open source Asterisk. I wrote about this news since 6,000 students and faculty... Full Story

Posted on February 27, 2009 11:17 AM

EZCallerID.com Hosted CNAM for Enhanced Caller-ID on any IP-PBX Launches

EZ Call, Inc. today announced the launch of EZCallerID.com, a new service that provides enhanced Caller ID, also known as CNAM, for VoIP calls. The hosted CNAM service gives you not just the phone number, but the name of the... Full Story

Posted on February 25, 2009 3:38 PM

Build your own SIP-to-Skype gateway using Asterisk

While we wait for Digium's official SIP-to-Skype gateway, Nerd Vittles today informed me about his very cool recipe that you can use today to build your own free SIP-to-Skype gateway enabling you to use your SIP-based desktop phones connected to... Full Story

Posted on February 17, 2009 10:30 AM

Bootable Flash Drive creates 15-Minute Turnkey Asterisk Installs on Atom-based processors

How'd you like a bootable USB flash drive which can create turnkey, full-featured Asterisk PBX systems in 15 minutes or less? Nerd Vittles has a recipe specially designed for the new Atom-based motherboards found in most netbooks. Nerd says it... Full Story

Posted on February 4, 2009 1:08 PM

ContactQ Enhances Asterisk's Call Center Functionality

ContactQ is a new call center application server created by Braxtel Communications designed to run on Asterisk that brings advanced call center functionality to the Asterisk platform. Their aim is to handle any sort of contact method and put it... Full Story

Posted on February 4, 2009 12:15 PM

Switchvox SMB 4.0 launches at ITEXPO

I just got into Miami for ITEXPO headed to the convention center around 12pm and I've already learned some exciting news launching at the show. Digium has released Switchvox SMB 4.0 with some new Unified Communications features. Matthew Nickasch, a... Full Story

Posted on February 2, 2009 1:35 PM

56 Reasons to Attend Digium Asterisk World in Miami

Bill Miller over at Digium today blogged 5 reasons why you should attend Digium Asterisk World in Miami taking place just a few short weeks away from February 2nd-4th, which is co-located with TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO).... Full Story

Posted on January 13, 2009 1:24 PM

CNAM (CallerID with Name) on Asterisk using Reverse Phone number lookup

CallerID is cool, but CallerID with Name (CNAM), -- also known as Calling NAMe -- is where it's at. When you go with a traditional phone provider (non-VoIP) they'll often offer you CallerID with Name for an additional fee. But... Full Story

Posted on January 7, 2009 10:09 AM

trixbox CE vs. Asterisk Downloads

As you may have read, Digium announced a sharp rise in Asterisk downloads for 2008 registering in a whopping 1.5 million downloads for 2008. That got me thinking just how does Asterisk & AsteriskNOW compare with Fonality's trixbox CE distro?... Full Story

Posted on December 23, 2008 6:00 AM

TMC & Digium Announce Educational program for Digium|Asterisk World

Some good news from my company TMC and Digium, the founder of Asterisk that I thought I'd share. If you're an Asterisk fan, you need to be at Asterisk World, which is co-located with the #1 VoIP tradeshow in the... Full Story

Posted on December 15, 2008 11:43 AM

Fonality Launches PBXtra Unified Agent on Salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange

Back in September I wrote about Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) and how it can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged. Apparently, this... Full Story

Posted on December 9, 2008 12:40 PM

Digium Responds to FBI Vhishing Security Warning about Asterisk

A few days ago the FBI's Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) issued an unclear warning that says versions of Asterisk software are vulnerable to vhishing (voice phishing) attacks, but didn't say which versions, but causing a flurry of news activity... Full Story

Posted on December 9, 2008 9:47 AM

Asterisk-based VPN in a Flash Mobile Telephony Appliance

Nerd Vittles (Ward Mundy) is the man! He just combined the popular Acer Aspire One NetBook featuring the powerful Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) processor along with Fedora 10 and his Asterisk-based distro. Nerd just may have cooked up the perfect... Full Story

Posted on December 8, 2008 10:33 AM

Sangoma Launches B600 Series of Analog Voice Cards

Rich has a great interview with Sangoma's VP Sales and Marketing, Doug Vilim about their new B600 Series of Analog voice cards, which can be used in Asterisk-based systems. Apparently, Sangoma's über customizable & modular cards can be a... Full Story

Posted on December 4, 2008 11:38 AM

PIKA WARP Appliance Adds FreePBX Support

When I met with PIKA Technologies  at ITEXPO they told me support for FreePBX was coming. Well today, PIKA Technologies announced that PIKA WARP the Appliance is now compatible with the Asterisk-based FreePBX GUI (Graphical User Interface) application. I reviewed... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2008 9:04 AM