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Microsoft and Nortel to co-develop IP-PBX
Microsoft and Nortel announced an alliance as part of Microsoft's overall unified communications push. Nortel said it expects more than $1 billion in new revenue over the life of the four-year pact, under which the companies will work together on...
Posted on July 18, 2006 12:53 PM
Inc.com Names Mark Spencer to 30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
Tom Keating & Asterisk-guru & Digum President Mark Spencer Digium, creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced that Mark Spencer, president of Digium, has been named to Inc.com's "30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs"....
Posted on July 10, 2006 4:33 PM
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
On May 30th 2006, I speculated that Windows Live Meeting 2006 was coming - the next version after Windows Live Meeting 2005. I was close -- Microsoft actually "skipped a year" and released Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, a unified communications...
Posted on June 26, 2006 7:02 AM
HUDLite for Asterisk Launches
Fonality today announced the immediate availability of HUDlite, a free application for Asterisk that provides businesses with a real-time call control and presence management platform, along with other features such as chat/IM and call recording. Based on HUDPro (paid version),...
Posted on June 19, 2006 10:34 AM
Security Flaws In Asterix PBX, IAX VoIP Client
From Yahoo News:Open source IP PBX application Asterisk PBX and the open source IAX VoIP client contain serious security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to assault VoIP networks with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, says Core Security Technologies, a security company that...
Posted on June 14, 2006 1:35 PM
Trixbox founder responds
Both Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality, and Andrew Gillis, the founder of Asterisk@Home - now Trixbox, responded to my previous post pondering the relationship between Trixbox and Fonality. Long story short, it looks like the open-source Trixbox project is safe...
Posted on June 7, 2006 5:05 PM
Asterisk Business Edition B.1 Released
Digium today announced a major upgrade of its Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Called Asterisk Business Edition B.1, the upgraded release includes enhanced security and scalability provided by Ranch Network's Asterisk security code, speech recognition capabilities through...
Posted on June 5, 2006 2:17 PM
Gizmo supports Asterisk
Some great news from SIPPhone, developers of the Gizmo Project announcing support for the open-source Asterisk PBX... The "Asterisk economy" continues to grow by leaps and bounds.check it out:SIPPhone today announced the delivery of Gizmo Project 2.0, highlighted by its...
Posted on May 23, 2006 12:42 PM
Fonality, an Asterisk solution passes 20 million calls
Some great news from Fonality, an Asterisk-based IP-PBX that earned a very positive review by TMC Labs in the April issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. Last time I checked, they were at 4 million calls last July. Some nice growth...
Posted on May 14, 2006 11:32 PM
Sangoma announces high-density 8 T1/E1 port card
Sangoma announced their A108 card which they claim provides the industry's highest density T1/E1 card for voice and data. Sangoma's cards work well on the Asterisk platform, as seen by my test drive of their hardware.Here's the news they are...
Posted on May 10, 2006 2:02 PM
Asterisk Flite text-to-speech program
Nerd Vittles has an excellent post on a new text-to-speech add-on for Asterisk called Flite that can read text in a MySQL database to a caller. While there already existed the Festival TTS, there were reports of performance problems when...
Posted on May 10, 2006 10:32 AM
Asterisk forms Advisory Council
Looks like Asterisk's growth has resulted in the formation of the Asterisk Advisory Council. Somehow when I think of open-source I don't think of a "centralized" council. Isn't the whole point of the open-source model to allow for distributed input...
Posted on April 19, 2006 1:09 PM
Open-source VoIP softswitch speaks GoogleTalk
Freeswitch, an open-source softswitch started earlier this year, leverages open-source software libraries and has recently added support for Google Talk. The codebase now includes Jingle (Jabber XMPP Voice) support with the addition of libDingaLing and mod_dingaling libraries. Jingle is an...
Posted on April 17, 2006 9:50 AM
Iotum integrates with Asterisk
Iotum, winner of Internet Telephony’s Product of the Year Award and DEMOgod at DEMO 2006 has announced today the beta availability of the iotum relevance engine integration with the popular open-source Asterisk IP-PBX.iotum's Asterisk integration module connects its call management...
Posted on April 3, 2006 10:12 AM
Digium Wildcard TDM2400 24 port analog card launches
Digium announced the Digium Wildcard TDM2400 which they claim provides the highest analog density available (24 ports) in a PCI card. Well, are they truly the highest analog density? Sangoma, their main competitor also offers a 24-port analog PCI card....
Posted on March 29, 2006 12:58 PM
AsteriskBlog offers Asterisk classes
Chris over at AsteriskBlog is working on providing some free beginner's Asterisk classes in South Carolina at a local library. He told me, "I think it could be a great advent to the community here, at least for those interested...
Posted on March 21, 2006 4:06 PM
GDS Voice Conferencing Solution for Asterisk
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....
Posted on March 21, 2006 10:33 AM
Fonality HUD call management application launches
Fonality HUD softphone call managment application launched today, a userfriendly softphone call management application with presence information for specified extensions giving every user attendant console-type capabilities. Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO actually gave me a heads-up on HUD (Heads Up Display)...
Posted on March 14, 2006 1:11 PM
Digium adds hardware cancellation to boards
One of the knocks against the Digium line of boards for the Asterisk open-source IP-PBX was its lack of hardware echo cancellation. This required you to do echo cancellation in software which is processor/resource intensive and limits scalability. Sangoma...
Posted on March 13, 2006 12:46 PM
Sangoma Asterisk cards test drive
Sangoma Technologies, a publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV:STC ), has been designing WAN and telecom/telephony hardware for over 20 years. While Sangoma is well-known as a world leader in support of ATM, Frame Relay, SS7, X.25, PPP,...
Posted on March 3, 2006 5:42 PM
Asterikast video podcasts to teach you Asterisk
Asterikast is a podcast that teaches and explains about the VoIP-capable Asterisk PBX by Digium. According to Asterikast, "We also plan on having videos that can help step you through the process of setting up your very own Asterisk PBX."They...
Posted on February 21, 2006 12:13 PM
Vonage opens SIP credentials?
A source informed VoIP & Gadgets Blog that Vonage plans to open up their SIP credentials to enable users to configure their own SIP softphones and SIP hardphones to work with the Vonage service at no additional charge. Today Vonage...
Posted on February 7, 2006 1:59 PM
SIP to Skype gateway breaks Skype's Great Wall of VoIP
Dal over at Asterisk VoIP News forwarded me an interesting link last week on a project he's been working on that creates a gateway between Skype and Asterisk or any SIP-based client. As most techies know, Skype uses a...
Posted on February 6, 2006 9:45 AM
Asterisk@Home 2.5 released
Looks like a new version of Asterisk@Home is out - version 2.5. I checked Asterisk @Home on SourceForge and they're still listing v2.1, so I'll take Nerd Vittles word for it. Regardless of whether v2.4 is ready for immediate download,...
Posted on February 3, 2006 2:16 PM
Grandstream GXV-3000 video phone
This is the new Grandstream GXV-3000 H.264 based SIP video phone launched at ITEXPO and which I promised to post a photo. This is the phone I told you about yesterday during my chit-chat with Digium's Mark Spencer. Based on...
Posted on January 26, 2006 10:36 AM
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