We sat down with the folks at FreeSWITCH today to get a little behind-the-scenes info now that they have just released version 1.0.1 of their open source telephony platform. If you don’t know much about FreeSWITCH, it was started as a project to be a telephony platform and designed from the ground up based on lessons learned during the development of Asterisk and hopefully avoid many of the problems that plague Asterisk today.
Company gains foothold in Windows Unified Communications and IP Contact Center Markets
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - July 7, 2008) - Sangoma® Technologies Corporation (TSXV: STC), the premium provider of PC-based hardware and software for proprietary and open source networking and telephony solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the shares [...]
Call conferencing, Paging and Windows 2008 support among major features added to software-based 3CX Phone System for Windows in record time
London, UK – 24 June 2008 - 3CX (www.3cx.com) has announced the release of version 6.0 of 3CX Phone System for Windows. The most recent version of the award-winning and software-based PBX ships with 10 [...]
Fonality has released the latest version of trixbox CE (Community Edition) today. This version has been a long time coming with major changes and new features included. Some of the new features include a more cohesive user interface, bulk extension importer, and expanded hardware support. For a more complete description of the changes, visit: http://trixbox.org/wiki/trixbox-ce-2-6-1.
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Garret Smith and the guys from VoipSupply came up with a cool contest, to come up with cool things to do with Asterisk. A winner has been chosen and won a $1,500 shopping spree at VoipSupply. If you haven’t seen it yet, its a good list of everything from practical to fun. For more on [...]
CallWeaver is a community-driven, vendor-independent, cross-platform, open source, PBX software project (formerly known as OpenPBX.org). It was originally derived from Asterisk. Now it supports analog and digital PSTN telephony, multi-protocol voice over IP telephony, fax, software-fax, T.38 fax over IP and many telephony applications such as IVR, conferencing and callcenter queue management.
Source: CallWeaver
FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control [...]
LOS ANGELES – April 15, 2008 – Fonality®, the leading open source phone systems provider, today announced the release of trixbox® Pro 2.0, a major new release created specifically for resellers participating in the fast-growing open source telephony market. trixbox Pro 2.0 incorporates new features for greater flexibility in setting up and managing trixbox deployments, [...]
The Linksys SPA-3102 is a cool little device that can convert your analog phone line into a SIP trunk into your trixbox or Asterisk PBX PBX system. The problem is most people have a ton of problems getting them to work properly.
While there are a ton of settings, there are really only about 7 [...]
While there are bajillions of USB Skype phones available now and more are coming out every day. While they may work well with Skype, they typically don’t work very well with regular SIP or IAX softphones, and even then, most have simply horrible call quality. Quite some time ago we reviewed the Duet 250 speakerphone [...]
