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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There seems to be a constant debate about the value of moving to an open source PBX. Asterisk is the first one that comes to mind, but it is not the only one available. There are pros and cons ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Asterisk 1.2.1 is an extremely flexible IP PBX that ...

Open-source PBX software that runs under Linux and other Unix variants on a variety of hardware, including x86, PowerPC, POWER and Xscale. Supporting traditional telephony (TDM) as well as voice over ...

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 ...

The FBI is toning down its warning about security flaws in Asterisk IP PBX software and is acknowledging that the company that markets the software already found the problem and fixed it back in March ...

From my colleague Tim Greene on a story Layer 8 ran over the weekend: The FBI is toning down its warning about security flaws in Asterisk IP PBX software and is acknowledging that the company that ...