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 ...

With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three of the four products in this Clear Choice Test have a version of Asterisk at their core, but Asterisk founder Digium also assembles and supports several of its own packaged versions of Asterisk: ...

Some open-source projects have a certain perverse economic madness about them. For example, as I wrote about last month, you can use $600–$700 US worth of hardware and MythTV to re-create the TiVo box ...

A key piece of the popular open source communication software gets an update. Making major changes to core functionality in an existing software project can be daunting. Making those changes in a ...

So, you need to deploy a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) system for your small office. Or, maybe you want a voice-mail system running on your Linux box at home. What about an interactive voice response ...

Barrett Lyon has created a don't miss resource that shows you how to configure P2P SIP URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) dialing on your Asterisk-based PBX. "There are thousands of people that operate ...