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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 ...

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 ...

Let’s start with the basics: Asterisk is open-source PBX software that runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. It can ...

Asterisk provides a complete PBX in software when combined with telephony interface hardware. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX. Asterisk ...

Asterisk configuration was done via the Linux command line, but we had learned enough to be able to maintain the system ourselves with only an occasional call for help from our friendly neighborhood ...

Historically PBX systems are pricey and a hassle to install for individuals—you'd only find them in large offices. But Asterisk is an open source software solution for both home and corporate users.

We're some months away from moving and looking to replace our old Siemens HiPath PBX with something VoIP based. One of the first things that came to my mind was a media Gateway, Asterisk and SIP ...

PBXtra is a version of Asterisk, but with many extra features, including a new suite of management tools based on an ASP model. In other words, you manage your PBX through Fonality’s Web site.

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 ...

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 ...