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Switchvox IP-PBX

January 28, 2005

Switchvox Admin

Now I'm up to 3 new IP-PBXs I never heard of that I discovered in just one day! I hope this is the last IP-PBX I hadn't heard of this week. Feels like my IP-PBX knowledge and "VoIP IQ" is going down by the second!

I just got this email an hour ago from Joshua Stephens, the CEO of Switchvox where he mentions that he has a pre-installed, easy-to-use "plug and play" IP-PBX based on Asterisk.

Posted in Asterisk, Reviews

Packetbox IP-PBX

February 7, 2005

I received an email telling me about another IP-PBX from a company based out of Belgium. Packetbox is a turn-key software and hardware solution based on a customized Linux operating system.. It's called Packetbox, a preinstalled appliance that contains anti-spam, anti-virus solutions, ipsec for vpn's, groupware and a customized Asterisk solution with web based interface and flash panel. It provides a Windows compatible domain controller for user authentication & management, file & printer sharing and DHCP & DNS services. You can find more information about it at http://www.packetbox.net

The device retails at around 1000 Euro.

Posted in Asterisk, Linux

Asterisk Business Edition Launched

March 8, 2005

Press release from Digium, which develops the popular open source Asterisk solution.

Digium Launches The Asterisk Business Edition The First Open Source Telephony System Geared Towards Business Professionals

Digium Inc., the leader in open source telephony, announced Asterisk Business Edition today, a professional-grade version of its acclaimed open-source PBX for the Linux operating system. Asterisk, the world's first open source PBX, offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures. Asterisk Business Edition provides enterprise environments with a PBX and telephony platform with the tested reliability necessary for critical business applications.

Digium's comprehensive test program ensures Asterisk Business Edition's reliability, performance, and interoperability with key hardware, software, and protocols.

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Open Source VoIP Debate

March 11, 2005

I thoroughly enjoyed reading George Ou's ZDnet article titled "The great open source VoIP Debate" where he moderated some panelists discussing and debating over open source in the VoIP space. The VoIP open source debate took place at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo a couple of weeks ago in Miami. Partaking in the debate were some VoIP open source "heavyweights" including Mark Spencer creator of Asterisk and CEO of Digium, Bill Rich, CEO of Pingtel; and Alan Hawrylyshen, CTO of Jasomi Networks.

The discussion definitely seemed quite lively and although I am disappointed I was too busy at the show to attend this open source debate, George Ou's article definitely makes it seem like you were there at this conference panel debate. I also missed the opportunity to meet George who I have found to offer some great insights into what's happening in the VoIP space.

Posted in Asterisk

Astricon Europe 2005

April 15, 2005

AstriCon Europe 2005 is just around the corner and in case you didn't know it is to be held in Madrid from June 15-17. They are expecting larger crowds as Asterisk, an open source PBX, continues to gain more popularity.

Asterisk and IPsando shared this news release with me...

IPsando, an information technology company focusing on Internet Protocol (IP) communications consulting and Digium, the creator of open source telephony, today announced that AstriCon Europe 2005, the first of two annual Asterisk user conferences, will be held June 15-17, 2005 at the Auditorium Madrid Hotel in Madrid, Spain. In response to the large number of attendees at AstriCon 2004, IPsando and Digium selected the Auditorium Madrid Hotel, the largest urban hotel in Europe, to ensure that AstriCon Europe 2005 would be able to host the large number of telecommunications executives and open-source users expected to attend the conference.

Boasting more than 200,000 users in over 200 countries, Asterisk is changing the way businesses purchase telecommunications services and how carriers build their voice over IP (VoIP) solutions by providing a complete business- and carrier-class PBX solution based on a Linux computer.

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Asterisk VoIP Blog

May 20, 2005

Asterisk fans looking for an Asterisk-related blog (besides my VoIP Blog of course) should go check out Asterisk VoIP News run by a guy who goes by the handle 'Dal'. I believe the Asterisk blog was started in January, but lots of good Asterisk content is being posted. Go check it out. Lots of news coverage of the Asterisk IP-PBX platform and analysis.

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Linksys Secretly Developing SOHO IP-PBX?

June 15, 2005

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction that Linksys will sell a turnkey, "plug and play" SOHO IP-PBX in 2006. LinkSys will announce this as early as December of this year. How do I know this? Shhh...

Posted in Asterisk, Linux, VoIP

Fonality Asterisk-based IP-PBX

June 19, 2005

On Monday Fonality will be coming out of "stealth mode" promoting its PBXtra with their first press release even though they've been officially servicing customers since October 2004. "We've kind of been in stealth mode because we wanted a wide deployment before doing our announcement", said Chris Lyman, founder and CEO of Fonality based out of Culver City, California. "We're at hundreds of customers right now and thousands of lines sold on our platform in over 30 states and 3 countries deployed right now."

Fonality Web Interface

PBXtra at its core is an Asterisk-based PBX with over 110,000 lines of Fonality's code added to the Asterisk platform, which makes the system more complete than native Asterisk with a much easier to use Web-based front-end interface. According to FOnality, the total lines of code now supercede the amount of Asterisk code.

Posted in Asterisk, Polycom, Reviews

Vonage selects Avaya

June 20, 2005

Is it just me, or is there something strange/weird about Vonage partnering with Avaya? Here you have Vonage, a cool technology trendsetter in broadband telephony that has helped changed the telecom landscape forever partnering with Avaya, a "traditional" PBX manufacturer. According to the release pasted below, Vonage is using Avaya's IP telephony contact center solution for their customer service call center. Nothing against Avaya, but I would have expected Vonage to go with something "cool and hip" like an open source Linux-based Asterisk PBX solution.

Posted in Asterisk, Avaya, Linux, VoIP, Vonage

Asterisk the Final Nail in the PBX Coffin?

June 24, 2005

Brian McConnel has written an excellent article on Asterisk titled "The PBX Is Dead; Long Live VoIP". Brian and I go way back to the days when I wrote for CTI Magazine and Brian worked for Pacific Telephony Design/PhoneZone. If memory serve me, Brian was one of the biggest proponents and one of the authors of SCTP (Simple Computer Telephony Protocol). Nothing ever came of SCTP that I'm aware of, but Brian is one smart guy with lots of telecom experience I even have some of Brian's email newsletters from when he worked at Pacific Telephony Design/PhoneZone in 1997. (Yes I'm an email hoard!) Ah yes, the days of proprietaty, expensive, hard to develop CTI systems.

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