Will this be the year open-source PBX and VoIP systems are ready for their close-up? The opportunity is better than ever, argued attendees at January's Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami.

If it is free, does it have value? Free for business application, the open source PBX also has risks, costs and limitations. I took a look at this phenomenon in my webcast, "Asterisk -- Is 'free' good ...

Sales of traditional PBXs and key systems have moderated in recent years. Experts attribute this to a variety of factors. Companies, they report, are just keeping their phone systems longer. The wave ...

When it comes to telecommunications in your office, do you do-it-yourself or farm it out? Make or buy? That’s basically the decision your small or mid-size business needs to make when it weighs the ...

To understand the challenges in building an embedded IP-PBX we first needto take a look at a typical PC-based x86 Asterisk PBX. Figure 1: Block diagram of a typical PC based Asterisk PBX. In this case ...

Eastern Management Group asked open source PBX customers about their decision-making. In Part 1 of a two-part article, we learn that most open source customers do consider multiple proprietary systems ...

Open source solutions have been available to enterprises for years, but have recently begun to grow in popularity, including the open source IP PBX options. Should your contact centre forego a ...

Of Pingtel’s three open source IP PBXs, we tested SIPxchange Enterprise Communication Server, Version 3.7. Pingtel also has the SIPxNano for fewer than 30 users, as well as a free, downloadable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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