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.

Sales of traditional PBXs and key systems have moderated in recent years. Experts attribute this to a variety of factors. Companies, they report, are just keeping their phone systems longer. The wave ...

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 ...

Repeat customers install open source PBX systems averaging 62 lines. We have been studying the Open Source PBX market with input from 7,000 companies. We've found that Open Source PBX is 18 percent of ...

If it is free, does it have value? Free for business application, the open source PBX also has risks, costs and limitations. I took a look at this phenomenon in my webcast, "Asterisk -- Is 'free' good ...

Aspect Software has announced it is supporting the emerging open source Internet protocol for PBX (private branch exchange) — the Asterisk Business Edition — with a software package that includes the ...

Open source solutions have been available to enterprises for years, but have recently begun to grow in popularity, including the open source IP PBX options. Should your contact centre forego a ...

When it comes to telecommunications in your office, do you do-it-yourself or farm it out? Make or buy? That’s basically the decision your small or mid-size business needs to make when it weighs the ...

Faced with the high cost of buying a traditional telephone system, Digium CEO Mark Spencer made use of his own programming skills to create Asterisk, an open-source alternative. Spencer had helmed a ...

Following a reader survey and 150 phone calls, an analyst has concluded that open source now has 18% of the PBX market, the vast majority of it Asterisk. John Malone runs Eastern Management, a Las ...

An open source group has posted free Session Initiation Protocol-based PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers – but drawing business customers to ...

We tested the open source net.PBX Communications edition from Escaux. It is built on Linux Debian 2.6.18 and Asterisk 1.2 and ships preloaded on a 4U appliance with Digium analog or T-1/E-1 cards ...