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 ...

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 ...

The Tarrytown, N.Y.-based distributor claims the online configurator is the first of its kind and is available to all Westcon Group resellers registered in its CollaborationPoint OpenSource program.

Open source has already shown some limited promise in the networking and IP telephony arenas. In the hallways at almost any IP telephony conference, attendees will inevitably hear someone mention ...

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 ...

Digium Inc. is beefing up the warranties for its open-source IP private branch exchange (PBX) wares in an effort to assure customers that the products are reliable. The company already had a two-year ...

Ah, poor Nortel. It must be terrible to only have $11 billion in revenues. So terrible, in fact, that if anyone dared to use an open source PBX, it would be grounds for complaining about it.

Skype has decided not to renew an agreement that allows open-source telephony system Asterisk to be integrated with the service using software developed with Digium. The decision is more about a ...