Digium sent us their Asterisk open source software PBX to CT Labs. It was installed on a dual-processor Linux server. With help from the Digium representative, we were able to connect three SIP phones ...

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 ...

With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

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 ...

You love a good project; you want extensions in your house so you don't have to get a separate line for each of your kids. You want hold music. You want advanced sets. So you want to roll your own ...

Here’s your network’s dirty little secret: Your private branch exchange (PBX) is old and outdated, and if you want to bring it into the modern era with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), you’re ...

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

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Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP ...

Digium Inc. is beefing up the warranties for its open-source IP private branch exchange (PBX) wares in an effort to assure customers that the products are reliable. The company already had a two-year ...

Open source VoIP represents a small part of the overall enterprise market with its strongest play in small organizations looking for an inexpensive, customizable solution. A Cisco integrator quoted ...