Faced with the high cost of buying a traditional telephone system, Digium CEO Mark Spencer made use of his own programming skills to create Asterisk, an open-source alternative. Spencer had helmed a ...

Jon 'Maddog' Hall, the president of open-source organisation Linux International, told the LinuxWorld Expo in London on Wednesday that open-source voice-over-IP (VoIP) will be bigger than Linux. "I ...

All of the systems examined in this Clear Choice were based on Asterisk. From its inception in 1999, when Digium’s Mark Spencer developed the Asterisk IP PBX, it has been one of the most widely used ...

An open source group has posted free Session Initiation Protocol-based PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers – but drawing business customers to ...

Digium, the maker of VoIP products based on the open-source Asterisk platform, and Skype on Tuesday partnered up to enable free and low-cost Skype calling and other Skype functionality via any ...

One of the first open source VoIP projects — and one of the earliest VoIP PBXes, period — is Digium-sponsored Asterisk. A highly mature platform licensed under the GPL, Asterisk supports almost ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) continues to entrench itself throughout the communications sector, especially in mixed private branch exchange (PBX) implementations. Cracking this market often is ...

The dizzying array of SMB VoIP products and unified communications available on the market means solution providers can pick and choose which features and capabilities to push to customers. That is ...

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 ...

In a move that might send shivers down the spines of mainstream IP PBX vendors like Avaya, Cisco and ShoreTel, Michigan CAT has deployed an open source Asterisk IP PBX to handle its phone calls and ...

CAMPBELL, CA and ANN ARBOR, MI--(Marketwire - August 10, 2009) - Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in content security appliances, today launched CudaTel, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ...

DIY VoIP: The days of complete rip-and-replace VoIP installations may be waning, as open-source VoIP options (like Asterisk) and more mingling between traditional PBX vendors and VoIP vendors make for ...