Digium has acquired San Diego based, Four Loop Technologies, the makers of SwitchVox, a powerful Asterisk-based PBX platform for small to medium sized enterprises. With over 1400 installations in more than 20 countries, SwitchVox will benefit from the exposure and continued development assistance that Digium can provide.
“It will be business as usual for SwitchVox” […]

I am currently hanging out in the CodeZone at Astricon 2007. Out of the blue two people from Trixbox came in, dropped off their ugly green appliance and promptly left. They moved and unplugged other equipment and then didn’t even stick around to help anyone that may want to take a look at what […]

Alex Saunders pointed out that Truphone Hacked iPhone to allow VoIP calls via WiFi.
The process is still very rough and CLI based, but a beta release of a more streamlined process is scheduled for release sometime later this month.
Truephone is in attendance here at Astricon and I believe they will be demonstrating the new […]

With the recent failure of ATAComm, many are expressing their concerns about how to deal with receiving support and warranty based returns/exchanged.
“From our perspective, we knew it was just a matter of time before ATAComm went down. We know what the cost structure looks like and there was no way they could survive with […]

I just noticed that ATAComm and its parent company, Ataractic Corporation, has ceased operations.
Over the years, I have had many confrontations with ‘atacomm’ on the Asterisk IRC channel, although I have never met the actual person behind the IRC alias.
On numerous occasions ‘he’ would login to the Asterisk IRC channel and complain about Digium and/or […]

I have started a wish list of items that either need testing or developed. I am going to make an attempt to at the very least provide further debug and/or testing data, but I would like to see the following issues get solved and commited to the Asterisk svn tree.
SIP Spiral is a situation when […]

I am planning on spending another year up in the CodeZone at Astricon 2007. Last year was very much unorganized and I spent most of the time doing testing specifically for NuFone and a couple clients that were local to Dallas.
This year I would like make an attempt to be a slight bit more […]

I recently came across Better than free? How Digium adds value to open source from Digium’s recently launched blog — Welcome to the Blogosphere, Digium.
While I agree with the points that Roderick makes about adding value to a ‘free’ software package, I believe Digium hasn’t gone far enough with Asterisk Business Edition. […]

If you are new to the world of playing with SIP servers, you may not realize there are two different variations of the same basic platform. I have previously published an OpenSER tutorial however there is another SIP server called SER.
In September of 2001 Andrei Pelinescu at the Fraunhofer Fokus research institute in […]