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 ...

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 ...

This is probably a ridiculously simple question, but in the midst of setting things up to try to "free" myself from the burden of the local telco's ridiculous rates I'm moving slowly to VOIP at home.

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 ...

Having completed its campus-wide wireless network last year, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia has joined the handful of enterprises deploying the open source Asterisk IP-PBX ...

Skype’s integration and development with Asterisk, and other SIP platforms have yielded two unique products. Asterisk users can rest assured knowing that the rumors surrounding the “death of Skype For ...

Code for Asterisk was originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium and has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. Asterisk claims to have over one million users and ...

We didn’t just take a sip. We took a good long drink of SIP technology in this round of iLabs testing. We gathered more than 50 devices from five SIP server vendors and 13 SIP endpoint vendors to ...

Should you consider Asterisk or any of the other open source communications software packages? Our columnist helps you get familiar with the pros and cons, the ins and outs of open source. I confess I ...