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 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 […]

With the recent growing popularity of VoIP, it has gotten far easier for you to run your own SIP server. There are many different open-source software packages that you can download and run at your home or office.
Today I am going to discuss two solutions that you can download and have your own SIP Server […]

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 […]

OpenSER is a flexible, mature and stable SIP communications server. However unlike Asterisk, OpenSER requires extensive knowledge of the SIP Protocol and presumes nothing about your configuration or method of deployment.
I am basing this configuration on OpenSER v1.1.1 which is currently considered the most ’stable’ version. Although v1.2 has been released, I am going […]

Deploying your first Asterisk system can be a frustrating task, espcially if you attempt to utilize the more advanced features and functions of Asterisk without having a solid foundation of the basic concepts. This article will walk you through the process of downloading, compiling and configuring your first instance of Asterisk that will allow […]