Asterisk VoIP News http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 15 May 2008 13:02:40 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thirdlane PBX 6.0 Simplifies Asterisk Management with Upgraded GUI Third Lane Technologies today announced a suite of powerful new capabilities for the Thirdlane PBX software appliance and Thirdlane PBX Manager GUI. The newest version of the company's open management platform for Asterisk, Thirdlane PBX 6.0 adds features for hosted IP-PBX providers, VARs and end users. ]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/thirdlane_pbx_60_simplifies_asterisk_management_with_upgraded_gui.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/thirdlane_pbx_60_simplifies_asterisk_management_with_upgraded_gui.html Asterisk Software Thu, 15 May 2008 13:02:40 -0800 Asterisk PBX 1.4.19.2 Released The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.19.2. This release includes some IAX2 channel driver updates.  Asterisk 1.4.19.1 was released to address an IAX2 security vulnerability.  Unfortunately, the changes to address the security issue had an unfortunate negative impact on IAX2  performance in Asterisk.  These issues have been addressed and the related fixes are included in this release.  The performance of IAX2 in Asterisk due to these changes should be far better than it was even before the changes were made for the security issue.

Anyone that uses IAX2 should use this release instead of 1.4.19.1.

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_pbx_14192_released.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_pbx_14192_released.html Asterisk Releases Tue, 13 May 2008 12:00:20 -0800 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.]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_news/digium_and_integrics_partner_to_offer_open_sourcebased_telephony_solution_t.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_news/digium_and_integrics_partner_to_offer_open_sourcebased_telephony_solution_t.html Asterisk News Mon, 12 May 2008 11:05:43 -0800 Digium Doubling Annual Sales with Open Source VoIP We thought it would be good to give open source VoIP pioneers Digium equal time, given our recent post about Freeswitch. Digium's founder, Mark Spencer was the original author of the Asterisk PBX, one of the more mature open source VoIP platforms. The company's VP of Marketing, Bill Miller, told me that "Last year was a big year for us; at the year-end we had finished our 24th straight profitable quarter.

]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/digium_doubling_annual_sales_with_open_source_voip.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/digium_doubling_annual_sales_with_open_source_voip.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:52:41 -0800 Google & Clearwire uses WiMax to Pave Internet Autobahn  
 
Clearwire isn't the latest Google acquisition. The Internet search giant, though, has joined a group of blue-chip corporate investors in the new Sprint-Nextel bailout of Clearwire -- a move that will save WiMax and further Google's innovations in mobile search.
 
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel said today they plan to merge their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company. Sprint Nextel will own a majority equity stake (51 percent) in the new joint venture.
]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/wimax/google_clearwire_uses_wimax_to_pave_internet_autobahn_1.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/wimax/google_clearwire_uses_wimax_to_pave_internet_autobahn_1.html WiMax Thu, 08 May 2008 14:32:42 -0800 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. ]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_news/digium_expands_commitment_to_astricon.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_news/digium_expands_commitment_to_astricon.html Asterisk News Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:38 -0800 Clearwire and Sprint to (finally) form a wireless company Editor's Note:  Well I am glad they finally agreed on details for this.  Clearwire is a good service (I use it) that really needs proper backing so it can expand into more markets and hopefully they can enhance the service like having a map that shows me where there towers are so I can point my modem it the towers direction to reduce my latency.  I hope someone from Clearwire reads this post.  Contact me if needed.
 
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company.

The new company, to be named Clearwire, will receive a $3.2 billion investment from Intel Corp., Google Inc., Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks. The investment is based on a target price of $20 per Clearwire share and will give the companies a 22 percent stake in the new venture.

]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/wimax/clearwire_and_sprint_to_finally_form_a_wireless_company.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/wimax/clearwire_and_sprint_to_finally_form_a_wireless_company.html WiMax Wed, 07 May 2008 12:06:23 -0800 Introducing AIM Call Out for Asterisk Today we’re taking a Margarita Break from our shiny new PBX in a Flash 1.2 server to play with AOL’s new AIM® Call Out. AOL actually introduced the service as an Open Voice API, but it walks and quacks like a SIP termination gateway so that, of course, tempted us to try it. Since it is SIP-compatible, we thought it would be fun to see if we could get it working with Asterisk. It didn’t take long...]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/introducing_aim_call_out_for_asterisk.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/introducing_aim_call_out_for_asterisk.html Asterisk Software Tue, 06 May 2008 10:44:59 -0800 Voice 2.0 Developers like Open Source A survey of Voice 2.0 developers carried out by iLocus, a research firm focussed on emerging communications, reveals that 72% of them prefer to work with Open Source telephony platforms like Asterisk, OpenSER, and FreeSWITCH and offer services direct to the consumer. The survey is part of a report ‘Voice 2.0: 2008 Status Report’ published by iLocus today. ]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/voice_20_developers_like_open_source.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/voice_20_developers_like_open_source.html VoIP News Mon, 05 May 2008 11:21:00 -0800 Asterisk 1.4.20-rc1 Now Available The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.20-rc1.

This release is a release candidate for the upcoming official release of 1.4.20.  It contains a large number of bug fixes over the previous release, 1.4.19.  We would like to encourage the community to assist us in testing before we release 1.4.20.

The release candidate is available on the download site.

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

Please provide release candidate testing feedback to the asterisk-dev mailing list, or the issue tracker, http://bugs.digium.com/

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_1420rc1_now_available.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_1420rc1_now_available.html Asterisk Releases Fri, 02 May 2008 10:31:03 -0800 Zaptel 1.4.10.1 Released The Asterisk.org development team has announced the release of Zaptel version 1.4.10.1.  This release is a bug fix release for a regression in which the Zaptel udev rules were not installed correctly, as well as a few minor fixes in the xpp drivers.

This release is available as a tarball as well as a patch against the previous release.  It is available for download from downloads.digium.com.

Thank you for your support!]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/zaptel_14101_released.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/zaptel_14101_released.html Asterisk Releases Thu, 01 May 2008 12:22:05 -0800 Yahoo to use Jajah for VoIP for 97 Million IM Users Comments:  I have followed Jajah for some time and I am very excited to hear this partnership with Yahoo!.  I have talked to some of the staff and they all seem to be a really quality team and on the ball about VoIP technology.  Grats
 
JAJAH has been selected by Yahoo! as the outsource partner for its premium voice service. The “Phone In” and “Phone Out” service will enable consumers to make high-quality, low-cost PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC voice calls over the JAJAH network to more than 200 countries using Yahoo! Messenger, the leading instant messenger application in the United States with nearly 97 million users worldwide (comScore, February 2008).
]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/yahoo_to_use_jajah_for_97_million_im_voip.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/yahoo_to_use_jajah_for_97_million_im_voip.html VoIP News Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:24:52 -0800 Skype's New CEO "Interview" - He Still Doesn't Get It! Editor's Comments:  Good read, I love it when people take crusade against bad customer service.   With us being part of this free market economy you really have two options, vote with your dollars (or euro if your into that) or take up the issues and not let the corporation get away with bad service and not hear what you have to say.  Sometimes is takes a blog post, phone call or letter but make sure you get through to someone who can do something. 

Skype has just published a so-called "interview" with their new CEO. First, rather than face the press and public, and possibly have to answer some hard questions from people who have (miserable) experience with Skype, he chose to hide behind a pseudo-interview with his own publicity manager. Second, even with every softball question possible being served up to him, it is obvious that he still doesn't get it.
 

]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/skype/skypes_new_ceo_interview_he_still_doesnt_get_it.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/skype/skypes_new_ceo_interview_he_still_doesnt_get_it.html Skype Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:55:08 -0800 Asterisk 1.2.28, 1.4.19.1, and 1.6.0-beta8 Released The Asterisk development team has released versions 1.2.28, 1.4.19.1, and 1.6.0-beta8.

All of these releases contain a security patch for the vulnerability described in the AST-2008-006 security advisory.  1.6.0-beta8 is also a regular update to the 1.6.0 series with a number of bug fixes over the previous beta release.

Early last year, we made some modifications to the IAX2 channel driver to combat potential usage of IAX2 in traffic amplification attacks.  Unfortunately, our fix was not complete and we were not notified of this until the original reporter of the issue decided to release information on how to exploit it to the public.

This issue affects all users of IAX2 that have allowed non-authenticated calls. For more information on the vulnerability, see the published security advisory.

* http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-006.pdf

All releases are available for download from the following location:

* http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_1228_14191_and_160beta8_released.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_releases/asterisk_1228_14191_and_160beta8_released.html Asterisk Releases Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:34:51 -0800 Voxbone Awarded Licenses in Singapore and Greece ]]> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/voxbone_awarded_licenses_in_singapore_and_greece.html http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/voip_news/voxbone_awarded_licenses_in_singapore_and_greece.html VoIP News Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:56:43 -0800