Since I seem to be feeling rather talkative today, I figured I'd post a bit on the latest little bit of geekery I committed this week. All noted configuration file examples can be downloaded from here ...

Editor's note: This article is based in large part on information provided by Mark Spencer and Digium. I recently had a reason to approve a purchase of a new phone system for a small company. Twenty ...

The author is assistant chief engineer of Radio One Dallas. For years, Radio One Dallas had a Nortel phone system that seemingly required a service call for anything beyond switching out a handset ...

In Parts 1, 2 and 3, we set up Asterisk as a PBX for four PSTN lines. We set up incoming and outgoing calling and restricted outgoing calls to authorized users only. Our fine example users Alrac, Stan ...

To understand the challenges in building an embedded IP-PBX we first needto take a look at a typical PC-based x86 Asterisk PBX. Figure 1: Block diagram of a typical PC based Asterisk PBX. In this case ...

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users as well as businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make ...

Will this be the year open-source PBX and VoIP systems are ready for their close-up? The opportunity is better than ever, argued attendees at January's Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami.

Here’s your network’s dirty little secret: Your private branch exchange (PBX) is old and outdated, and if you want to bring it into the modern era with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), you’re ...

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users and businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more ...