Now that Asterisk has gone mainstream, more and more Asterisk installations are happening in home environments.
Asterisk is perfect to power a residential phone system, as the cost of entry is now very obtainable, unlike in years past. In fact, you can even run Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54G, along with many many other Linux based […]

Today The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S.704, a bill that would make it illegal for anyone within the United States to spoof their caller ID, “with misleading or inaccurate caller identification information…in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service.”
The bill specifically exempts law enforcement and provides a […]

I just came across a very interesting article from Dana Blankenhorn about how the future of telecommunications is open source. The Heavyweights of years past are quickly seeing the industry being seriously disrupted by a single open source application called, you guessed it, Asterisk.
From the article:

“The large carriers have Asterisk in their lab. Some […]

Since the Asterisk Development Team strongly encourages everyone to migrate to Asterisk 1.4, I decided it was time I moved to Asterisk 1.4 at both my home and work.
I have been testing Asterisk 1.4 for quite some time now. Being a member of the Interop iLabs VoIP Team, I have been able to play with […]

Open Source now has another strategic partnership. Digium and Bandwidth.com partner to further develop open source software.
This goes to show that even more small business and large enterprises are now very much paying attention to the power of The Asterisk PBX.
I think, the best decision that I have ever made […]

I found a great post from Tom Keating about Asterisk Termination and ENUM, which discusses the [lack of] progress in the potentially lucrative market of Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Telephony.
From the article:

Of course, the Asterisk system uses its proprietary IAX protocol for inter-Asterisk communication and not standard SIP, so unless IAX is supported by all IP-PBXs (not […]

Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, has died at his home in Bell Canyon after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said Tom Nikosey, Herbert’s son-in-law.
In the 80s, I remember being glued to Nickelodeon waiting for Mr. Wizard to show us something cool or interesting. I have to give a lot of credit […]

Digium®, the Asterisk® company, today announced the availability of PCI Express Telephony Interface Cards.
From the press release:

“PCI Express is quickly becoming the industry preference for server and workstation interfaces for expansion cards,” said Bill Miller, vice president of product management and marketing at Digium. “Digium’s goal in offering a full line of PCIe cards, and […]

I spend a couple hours each day viewing various VoIP related sites to keep up on the state of the industry.
Just very recently I have been noticing a significant number of ads by Microsoft that promote the slogan “VoIP As You Are” and their own software-based VoIP PBX solution…naturally I was intrigued, so being […]

I don’t know about you, but I check my PayPal accounts quite often, just to be sure everything is what I expect, mainly because I still do not trust PayPal, all that much.
However, PayPal is effectively down, today. While I have seen a small number of successful PayPal payments today, it does seem like fewer […]