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.

SIDEBAR: Web-hosted and Open Source PBX Providers Fonality : The company’s open source VoIP-capable PBXtra phone system serves 53,000 business users in 50 countries who have placed more than 130 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aspect Software has announced it is supporting the emerging open source Internet protocol for PBX -- the Asterisk Business Edition -- with a software package that includes the Asterisk Business ...

We tested the open source net.PBX Communications edition from Escaux. It is built on Linux Debian 2.6.18 and Asterisk 1.2 and ships preloaded on a 4U appliance with Digium analog or T-1/E-1 cards ...

Presenting findings from recent Eastern Management Group studies at Digium Asterisk World, Malone noted that open-source PBX systems have costs 25 percent to 50 percent less than many proprietary ...

Open source IP PBX systems like Asterisk have benefits and risks. Learn what they are and assess your readiness for the IP PBX implementation in this tip from Gary Audin.

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 ...

The clash between open source and proprietary telephony solutions has arrived ...

A PBX connects a number of private extensions through a trunk line or lines to the public phone system, routing outbound and incoming calls and providing features such as voicemail and ...