May 12, 2008

Digium and Integrics Partner to Offer Open Source-Based Telephony Solution to Carriers

Digium, the Asterisk Company, and Integrics Ltd., a software engineering company providing telecommunications software to customers worldwide, today announced that they have partnered around sales and marketing of Integrics’ Enswitch, a carrier-grade switch based on the Asterisk telephony platform, to carriers worldwide. The agreement provides a route for closer technical, sales and marketing collaboration between the companies and expands Digium’s involvement in the carrier market.

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May 07, 2008

Digium Expands Commitment to AstriCon

AstriCon, the industry’s first conference and exhibit devoted to the most widely used open source telephony platform, Asterisk, is on track to be the largest and most successful in this, its fifth year. Digium, Inc., the creator of and corporate sponsor of Asterisk, today announced that the event will be held in Glendale, Ariz., near Phoenix, from September 23-25, 2008, and invited submissions for presentations. Digium’s commitment to and investment in the conference promises to make this year’s AstriCon the most educational of any Asterisk event, for expert users and beginners alike.

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March 18, 2008

Mark Spencer Recounts the History of Asterisk PBX

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange (PBX) originally created by Mark Spencer of Digium. A PBX, is a type of phone switch, that allows multiple attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Not totally unlike routers that connect multiple computers to a network.

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March 13, 2008

Digium and I6NET Partnership to Offer VoiceXML Browser Technology into Asterisk

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk Company, and I6NET Solutions, Limited a pan European company specialized in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions, announce today their partnership. I6NET’s VoiceXML browser and software technology enables the creation of interactive voice and video applications.

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February 19, 2008

Kevin Fleming will deliver Keynote at Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference

The Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference today announced that Digium executives Kevin Fleming, director of Software Development, and Mark Spencer, founder and CTO, will present two keynote addresses at the popular event hosted by IT360° Conference & Expo 2008. The annual Asterisk and Open Telephony event will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, April 7 – 9, 2008.

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January 03, 2008

2008 Asterisk/Digium Predictions

Craig Lawrence posted his predictions for Asterisk and Mark Spencer in 2008:

I must admit my predictions for 2007 were not all that accurate. I didn’t predict that Digium would buy Switchvox or that the guys would do a deal with 3Com.  I did manage to predict that asterisk appliances would proliferate and that some high profile services would consolidate – but you don’t need to be related to Nostradamus to have picked those.
 
My 2008 guesses are looking equally as inaccurate as 2007 – they include:
 
-          Another successful year for Digium which could see a further Venture Capital injection and announcement that NASDAQ is within their sights
-          A high profile senior engineer from Cisco / Nortel / Avaya joins Digium adding market credibility
-          Mark Spencer puts a deposit on a Malibu house and draws up plans to build a Bill Gates style mansion
-          Trixbox releases a real appliance
-          3Com sells their 1,000th Digium Appliance
-          Dean Collins produces a BLOG that rivals Geoff Pulver’s and releases his top 100 VoIP prospects list on www.100collins.com
 
So what do you folks think we’ll see in 2008?
 
Cheers
 

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October 29, 2007

Mark Spencer: "Consider open source VoIP, think twice about Hybrid-Hosted"

Companies selecting a VoIP solution must choose from a dizzying array of options, including whether a hosted, hybrid-hosted or premise-based telephony system will work better for them, and whether the benefits of open source outweigh the potential risks.
 
Digium CTO and Asterisk creator Mark Spencer called the proprietary hybrid-hosted model "very evil" during the Internet Telephony Expo West 2007 in Los Angeles, leading to a conversation-starting blog posting by SearchNetworking.com site editor Amy Kucharik. Kucharik recently spoke with Spencer to get some clarification on his position and controversial comments, and to hear his thoughts about open source VoIP and what it means for business users.
 

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October 24, 2007

Digium Unveils New Corporate Headquarters in Huntsville

 
Digium, Inc., announced the grand opening of a new corporate headquarters to support the company's rapidly growing open source telephony business. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new facility, located at 445 Jan Davis Drive NW, is scheduled for October 23. Digium, which has called Huntsville home since its founding in 1999, is the leading worldwide provider of open source VoIP solutions.

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October 19, 2007

Nerd Vittles Leaves Trixbox and Annouces PBX-in-a-Flash

 
 
Note:  I have to agree about the direction of Trixbox cough cough Asterisk cough Platform.  It seems like they have lost touch with there roots.  Just because you purchase an open-source project does not mean you have some ownership of the underling code.  It belongs to the community as a whole and if anyone would have any rightful claim it would be our boy Marc Spencer.  So there, I said.  I have not really wanted to comment on this because A. there are some conflicting interests with my consulting services on the Asterisk iPBX and B. It is really a waste of my users and my own time.  But with our respected Ward Mundy making that comment I felt I need to be honest about my feelings on this subject.
 
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We’ve been keeping a low profile for a few weeks, and now it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. As some of you know, we just haven’t been thrilled with the direction of the trixbox project lately. Without boring everyone with a lot of detail, suffice it to say that it’s just gotten a little too proprietary, too closed, and too commercial for our open source, puritanical tastes." 

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October 09, 2007

Marc Spencer & Asterisk PBX Moment

 
 
Note:  Okay, I hope you enjoyed my obligatory Marc Spencer picture.  I was reading Tristan Rhodes post about the current Asterisk product lineup and some of the recent developments.  I think Asterisk is heading in the right direction. 
 
SwitchVox is a good step to compete directly with Shoretel and Trixtangle hehe.  I hope they keep decent margins in the formula to take care of there fiercely loyal Asterisk resellers and consultants.  The best thing that can happen is to have the margins left for the resellers so that keep a large volume of competent Asterisk installers that can support the product on a large scale.
 
I like where the Lumenvox's speech reconition product is going also.  Interactive voice application is already big and is only going to get bigger. 

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September 27, 2007

Digium acquires Switchvox to Improve SMB Offering

As you may have heard, Digium announced this morning that it's acquired Switchvox, a well known provider of Asterisk-based phone systems.  Since several people have already asked me about the deal, I figured I'd let you all know my feelings on the matter.  First of all, let me say that I personally think this is a great thing for all the parties involved.

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August 23, 2007

Why Asterisk doesn’t sell against Avaya : Response

Editor's Comments:  Ted Wallingford posted on his blog yesterday responding to Tom Keating's article about Asterisk cutting into traditional iPBX sales.  Some of the items on Ted's list are true but I would like to take some time to add my own comments to his response.

Click Below for my Comments 

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August 02, 2007

Digium Changes to Subscription Pricing for Telephony Product

I confess that years ago, I was one of those people who was skeptical and somewhat uncomprehending when Linux seller Red Hat changed its pricing to a subscription model, charging for software updates and support over a set period of time. Traditional software companies charge for a license to use a particular piece of technology, but that doesn't work as well in the open-source domain, where getting access to the software itself is easy and free.

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July 11, 2007

Digium Acquires Sokol & Associates

Digium just acquired Sokol & Associates the company behind the successful Asterisk training program and the Astricon trade show. This further reconfirms the idea of Digium being “everything Asterisk,” a concept espoused in a recent interview with the company’s news CEO Danny Windham.

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July 05, 2007

Asterisk Based Plant Assistance : Pick Up Its Your Plant Calling

 
 
As promised, here's a Q&A with the co-founder of Botanicalls, a not-yet-ready-for-primtime product that enables houseplants to call you on the phone when they need attention. Of course they can't really call you, but four NYU grad students - among them, Kati London - have concocted a way to simulate a call.

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June 07, 2007

Asterisk iPBX Event in Brussels, Belguim Oct 9-10th 2007

Note:  The good people at Profoss emailed in about there event and made an offer to give AVN blog readers an additional discount at registration.  It is limited to 100 so do sign-up soon to get the good deal.

A Profoss event is organised the 9 and 10 october in Brussels, with the subject "Asterisk and voice over IP". This event will feature Kevin Flemming, co-maintainer of Asterisk, and several companies developing around Asterisk.

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May 31, 2007

Asterisk Release Maintenance News

Greetings Asterisk Enthusiasts,
 
Last week, about 50 developers gathered in Atlanta, GA, USA at the Georgia Tech University's Information Security Center (GTISC) for a week of discussion about the future of Asterisk. One of the topics that came up was the future of the existing Asterisk release branches. Asterisk 1.2 was released in the Fall of 2005. At this time, Asterisk 1.0 was put into security maintenance, meaning that it only received changes to fix security issues, and not changes intended to fix less severe issues.

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May 19, 2007

Free Seminar w/ Asterisk Inventor Mark Spencer

Date: Monday, June 4, 2007, Time: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Goizuetta Business School, Emory University
Boynton Auditorium (Room 130)
1300 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322

Join Digium, Cbeyond and Polycom for a special industry event featuring speakers Mark Spencer, CTO, Digium and Chris Gatch, CTO, Cbeyond.

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May 09, 2007

Open-Source Telephony Goes Mainstream

Note:  Rich has post this great article on his blog about his trip to Digium's headquarters to meeting with Mark Spencer. 
 
 
 
In the last few years the communications industry has been taken by storm through the invention of an open-source communications platform named Asterisk invented by Digium (www.digium.com) founder Mark Spencer. An article written for the January 2004 issue of Internet Telephony magazine by yours truly was titled, “Open Source Telephony. . . The Next Big Thing,” predicted open-source communications would become a huge phenomenon and it has perhaps exceeded everyone’s expectations of growth.

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April 24, 2007

Asterisk PBX Project Security Advisory Process

Note: Kevin Fleming posted this to the list for a new process it reporting security bugs. 
 
Recent events, including vulnerabilities that were reported and the subsequent discussions about how they were handled, have made those of us that manage Asterisk development decide that it is time for the Asterisk project to have a formal security vulnerability and advisory reporting process.

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April 18, 2007

Take Note! Asterisk Bootcamp Debuts July 23-27, 2007

Note:  Great News, I hope too see some more formal and specialized training programs.  My personal favorite with be "Dealing with CLECs Support 101" :P 
 
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. is pleased to announce a partnership with Sokol & Associates to bring Asterisk training to the Big Nerd Ranch in the form of the new Asterisk Bootcamp, scheduled for July 23-27, 2007. The class provides a week-long, in-depth examination of Asterisk, the open source phone system, under the tutelage of Jared Smith, senior Sokol & Associates consulant and trainer, and Nate Osborne, resident Big Nerd Ranch Asterisk guru.

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April 02, 2007

5 Steps to Starting Your Own Telephone Company with Asterisk

Note: Now that is a disruptive idea 
 
Fed up with your local Telecom provider? Tired of poor customer service? In 5 easy steps you can start your own Telephone Company. In the new world of Open Source software, low cost hardware technology and the Internet, it is very easy for anyone to start their own Long Distance telephone company.
 
Yes! You can start your own Long Distance Telephone Company for under $5,000. With the big boys charging 5 to 10 cents a minute North America wide, you can make money when your actual costs are less than 2 cents a minute. Let’s take a look where we can spend our start up funding.

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March 05, 2007

Digium Launches "Authorized Reseller Program" for Asterisk PBX Platform

 
 
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, today announced the first formal reseller program for the Asterisk community. The Digium Authorized Reseller Program is designed to provide new and existing resellers with access to cutting edge Asterisk open source telephony solutions and attractive incentives for bringing the proven solution to new markets.

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March 02, 2007

Live from Etel - The Future of Asterisk

Note:  VoiP-News has a nice write from Mark Spencer's address to the E-Tel conference audience.

"We’re welcoming Mark Spencer, the “Father of Asterisk.”  In Japan, he says, it’s customary to begin with an apology.  He apologizes for the presentation graphics, and also for app_voicemail.  At the time he wrote it, it seemed like a simple concept, he says.  He also apologizes for app_queue/chan_agent." 

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February 27, 2007

Digium's AsteriskNOW Awarded "Best of Show" at Internet Telephony Conference

 
 
Digium, Inc., the Asterisk company, today announced that AsteriskNOW has been named a winner of a “Best of Show” Award at TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO East 2007.

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