Asterisk News
BSDTalk interview with John Todd of Asterisk
BSDTalk has a 23 minutes interview with John Todd, Open Source community director at Asterisk BSDTalk 166 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG For those interested in Asterisk on FreeBSD with a lot of p ....... read more
Wed,
26 Nov 2008
Bandwidth.com invests in FreePBX GUI for Asterisk
Bandwidth.com has just made an investment in FreePBX, the popular front-end interface to Asterisk-based distros. I discussed this news with Philippe Lindheimer just a couple hours ago. One of the ques ....... read more
Mon,
17 Nov 2008
One Week Until AstriCon 2008
Ok, time is running out. If you haven't signed up yet for AstriCon please do so ASAP. We now have over 500 people signed up. We have 60 speakers, 30 exhibitors, 5 conference tracks, 3 parties, 2 ke ....... read more
Tue,
16 Sep 2008
Digium Announces Keynote Speakers for Expanded AstriCon ?08
Digium, the Asterisk Company, recently announced that Brian Aker from Sun Microsystems/MySQL and Stefan Öberg from Skype are slated as keynote speakers for AstriCon ‘08. AstriCon, the world ....... read more
Wed,
06 Aug 2008
Digium and Critical Links Offer Carrier-Grade Asterisk Telephony Boards
Digium and Critical Links, a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs, announced today that Digium will be the exclusive vendor of Asterisk-compatible analog and digital PCI ....... read more
Mon,
23 Jun 2008
Digium and Fanstel Corp. Announce Partnership
Digium Inc., the Asterisk Company, and Fanstel Corp. today announced a partnership that will help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products. Fanstel SIP telephones are now ....... read more
Mon,
02 Jun 2008
Digium and Integrics Partner to Offer Open Source-Based Telephony Solution to Carriers
Digium, the Asterisk Company, and Integrics Ltd., a software engineering company providing telecommunications software to customers worldwide, today announced that they have partnered around sales and ....... read more
Mon,
12 May 2008
Digium Expands Commitment to AstriCon
AstriCon, the industry’s first conference and exhibit devoted to the most widely used open source telephony platform, Asterisk, is on track to be the largest and most successful in this, its fif ....... read more
Wed,
07 May 2008
Mark Spencer Recounts the History of Asterisk PBX
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange (PBX) originally created by Mark Spencer of Digium. A PBX, is a type of phone switch, that allows multiple attached telephones to make calls to one a ....... read more
Tue,
18 Mar 2008
Digium and I6NET Partnership to Offer VoiceXML Browser Technology into Asterisk
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk Company, and I6NET Solutions, Limited a pan European company specialized in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions, announce today th ....... read more
Thu,
13 Mar 2008
Kevin Fleming will deliver Keynote at Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference
The Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference today announced that Digium executives Kevin Fleming, director of Software Development, and Mark Spencer, founder and CTO, will present two keynote addresses a ....... read more
Tue,
19 Feb 2008
Mark Spencer: "Consider open source VoIP, think twice about Hybrid-Hosted"
Companies selecting a VoIP solution must choose from a dizzying array of options, including whether a hosted, hybrid-hosted or premise-based telephony system will work better for them, and whether the ....... read more
Mon,
29 Oct 2007
Digium Unveils New Corporate Headquarters in Huntsville
Digium, Inc., announced the grand opening of a new corporate headquarters to support the company's rapidly growing open source telephony business. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new facility, l ....... read more
Wed,
24 Oct 2007
Nerd Vittles Leaves Trixbox and Annouces PBX-in-a-Flash
Note: I have to agree about the direction of Trixbox cough cough Asterisk cough Platform. It seems like they have lost touch with there roots. Just because you purchase an open-source pro ....... read more
Fri,
19 Oct 2007
Marc Spencer & Asterisk PBX Moment
Note: Okay, I hope you enjoyed my obligatory Marc Spencer picture. I was reading Tristan Rhodes post about the current Asterisk product lineup and some of the recent developments. I think ....... read more
Tue,
09 Oct 2007
Digium acquires Switchvox to Improve SMB Offering
As you may have heard, Digium announced this morning that it's acquired Switchvox, a well known provider of Asterisk-based phone systems. Since several people have already asked me about the deal, I ....... read more
Thu,
27 Sep 2007
Why Asterisk doesn?t sell against Avaya : Response
Editor's Comments: Ted Wallingford posted on his blog yesterday responding to Tom Keating's article about Asterisk cutting into traditional iPBX sales. Some of the items on Ted's list are true but I ....... read more
Thu,
23 Aug 2007
Asterisk Based Plant Assistance : Pick Up Its Your Plant Calling
As promised, here's a Q&A with the co-founder of Botanicalls, a not-yet-ready-for-primtime product that enables houseplants to call you on the phone when they need attention. Of course they ....... read more
Thu,
05 Jul 2007
Digium Acquires Sokol & Associates
Digium just acquired Sokol & Associates the company behind the successful Asterisk training program and the Astricon trade show. This further reconfirms the idea of Digium being “everything Aste ....... read more
Wed,
11 Jul 2007
Digium Changes to Subscription Pricing for Telephony Product
I confess that years ago, I was one of those people who was skeptical and somewhat uncomprehending when Linux seller Red Hat changed its pricing to a subscription model, charging for software updates ....... read more
Thu,
02 Aug 2007