While big business may be crowning open source as the king of server-based computing, most enterprise movers and shakers vehemently deny any such moves in telephony. Yet, open source in telecom is ...

I read this article "Doubts persist about open source IP telephony" as I was sitting on a conference call using a Polycom phone on our brand new Asterisk system. We deployed last week and I have to ...

One of the first open source VoIP projects — and one of the earliest VoIP PBXes, period — is Digium-sponsored Asterisk. A highly mature platform licensed under the GPL, Asterisk supports almost ...

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