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 have been asked to participate in an advanced OpenSER and Asterisk integration training program. The primary goal of this project is to provide the necessary details allowing you to deploy and manage a highly scalable VoIP service using open source technologies.
We are just now starting to get organized, so at this point I […]

Asterisk VoIP News has a great article detailing how Asterisk is taking over the enterprise.
From the article:

“Some of the most compelling data that we collected was simply around the wide variety of applications that Asterisk is now being used to address,” said Terry Atwood, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care at PIKA. “Of […]

Today is a very sad day. Word has it that Digium has awarded an innovation award to DIDx, a company that has scammed VoIP providers into thinking their telephone numbers are being utilized by an end-user, where in reality Mr. Allahwala is reselling those services without bothering to inform the provider(s) of the actual usage […]

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 […]

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 […]