An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

Founded in late 2003, Fonality this week is coming out of stealth mode with its PBXtra lineup, touting the system as an affordable IP telephony platform for smaller customers, particularly those with ...

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 ...

Fonality’s PBXtra 3.5 Professional edition appliance is based on CentOS 4.3 and Asterisk 1.2. Fonality sells two other retail versions — Standard and Call Center — and offers a free downloadable open ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Whereas commercial VoIP vendors typically supply their own phones, tying them to their IP PBXes for solid integration and providing phone setup, configuration, and maintenance as part of their ...

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 ...