Editor's note: This article is based in large part on information provided by Mark Spencer and Digium. I recently had a reason to approve a purchase of a new phone system for a small company. Twenty ...

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An Asterisk-based PBX proved to be the solution to one company's communications growing pains. For Sean Brown, CEO of One Call Support Services (a division of U.S. Network Management, a managed ...

The PCB layout for this design is quite challenging as there arethree distinct signal areas in the small 50 x 25mm area: It is important to prevent the DC-DC converter and digital side frominjecting ...

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users and businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala and BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2006--Digium(R) Inc., the Asterisk(R) company, today unveiled Asterisk 1.4, at the Fall VON conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally ...

Vendor and media hype about estimated VoIP adoption rates is at last moving from the could-be realm to the tried-and-true. Just try finding a new PBX that is not IP enabled. In fact, organisations ...

The author is assistant chief engineer of Radio One Dallas. For years, Radio One Dallas had a Nortel phone system that seemingly required a service call for anything beyond switching out a handset ...

As a point of reference for this test of IP PBX system, the majority of which are based on the open source Asterisk system, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to download the unsupported ...

We're some months away from moving and looking to replace our old Siemens HiPath PBX with something VoIP based. One of the first things that came to my mind was a media Gateway, Asterisk and SIP ...