Open-source PBX software that runs under Linux and other Unix variants on a variety of hardware, including x86, PowerPC, POWER and Xscale. Supporting traditional telephony (TDM) as well as voice over ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...

When I looked at the open source Digium Asterisk PBX last year, one of things I noted is that implementation can be difficult, and that it would probably be necessary to call in an expert to set up an ...

The PCB layout for this design is quite challenging as there arethree distinct signal areas in the small 50 x 25mm area: It is important to prevent the DC-DC converter and digital side frominjecting ...

From my colleague Tim Greene on a story Layer 8 ran over the weekend: The FBI is toning down its warning about security flaws in Asterisk IP PBX software and is acknowledging that the company that ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Asterisk 1.2.1 is an extremely flexible IP PBX that ...

Earlier I wrote about Trixbox, an Asterisk PBX, and a good example of what open source is doing to telephony. Well, a good argument broke out about just this topic at the Dave Farber list recently, ...