This really grinds my gears™
Apparently the worst provider ever award goes to NuFone… Well, at least according to this blog post.
This is yet another person who has chose to slant his experiences with NuFone in order to promote service from another VoIP Provider. Anyone else see a trend?
For the record, his trouble ticket was […]

Russell Bryant has post details of a new timing API for Asterisk:

Starting with Asterisk 1.6.1, you will no longer need DAHDI installed at all to get proper timing in Asterisk. There is a new timing API, and there are already two implementations. There is a DAHDI timing interface (res_timing_dahdi) and another (res_timing_pthread) that has no […]

The Asterisk Development Team has released the third beta for Asterisk 1.6.

Added an ‘n’ option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered
Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to:

List the categories in a file.
Get the contents of a single category.
Empty […]

Over the next couple weeks I intend to detail the configuration and usage of the Nokia E61i phone. I have been using the E61i for a few months now. I was also lucky enough to use E61 for quite a while, so will also document some of the differences and will tell you if […]

I am involved in a project to create a series of carrier and enterprise level OpenSER and Asterisk integration training programs. I have been asked to participate due to my direct experience with both OpenSER and Asterisk in many different real-world deployment situations.
However, in order to make this training material […]

Initially I was not going to say anything about this, as doing so tends to do nothing more than to stir the horrnets nest. However, I am sick and tired of people bashing my company for no particular reason. For the record I am posting this on my own personal site and it does […]

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 […]

If you are like myself, you are still running OpenSER 1.1 because OpenSER 1.2 is simply not ready for prime time abuse quite yet. I have to admit the OpenSER developers have been working very hard to stabilize 1.2. Keep up the hard work guys!
I have tracked down solutions to the following error conditions that […]

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I have an on going series called How To Configure Asterisk. This first article in this series walks you through a typical first installation […]