Jon 'Maddog' Hall, the president of open-source organisation Linux International, told the LinuxWorld Expo in London on Wednesday that open-source voice-over-IP (VoIP) will be bigger than Linux. "I ...

Of Pingtel’s three open source IP PBXs, we tested SIPxchange Enterprise Communication Server, Version 3.7. Pingtel also has the SIPxNano for fewer than 30 users, as well as a free, downloadable ...

Founded in late 2003, Fonality this week is coming out of stealth mode with its PBXtra lineup, touting the system as an affordable IP telephony platform for smaller customers, particularly those with ...

Fonality’s PBXtra 3.5 Professional edition appliance is based on CentOS 4.3 and Asterisk 1.2. Fonality sells two other retail versions — Standard and Call Center — and offers a free downloadable open ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) continues to entrench itself throughout the communications sector, especially in mixed private branch exchange (PBX) implementations. Cracking this market often is ...

In a move that might send shivers down the spines of mainstream IP PBX vendors like Avaya, Cisco and ShoreTel, Michigan CAT has deployed an open source Asterisk IP PBX to handle its phone calls and ...

An emergency response centre in South Africa has implemented an open source VoIP telephony system to cut the cost of handling calls. Asterisk, an open-source application that provides all the ...

SIPfoundry, an umbrella organization that includes other open-source projects such as reSIProcate and Vovida, plans to hold its first public meeting Tuesday at the Spring VON 2004 IP communications ...

The Governator may terminate California's reliance on proprietary software and traditional telephone systems, if a recently published state report is heeded. A body of independent auditors and experts ...

I read this article "Doubts persist about open source IP telephony" as I was sitting on a conference call using a Polycom phone on our brand new Asterisk system. We deployed last week and I have to ...

One of the first open source VoIP projects — and one of the earliest VoIP PBXes, period — is Digium-sponsored Asterisk. A highly mature platform licensed under the GPL, Asterisk supports almost ...