The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users and businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more ...

Here’s your network’s dirty little secret: Your private branch exchange (PBX) is old and outdated, and if you want to bring it into the modern era with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), you’re ...

Vendor and media hype about estimated VoIP adoption rates is at last moving from the could-be realm to the tried-and-true. Just try finding a new PBX that is not IP enabled. In fact, organisations ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Asterisk 1.2.1 is an extremely flexible IP PBX that ...

Editor's note: This article is based in large part on information provided by Mark Spencer and Digium. I recently had a reason to approve a purchase of a new phone system for a small company. Twenty ...

An Asterisk-based PBX proved to be the solution to one company's communications growing pains. For Sean Brown, CEO of One Call Support Services (a division of U.S. Network Management, a managed ...

Payphones used to be found on just about every street corner. They were a convenience, now replaced by the ubiquitous mobile phone. These machines were the stomping grounds for many early computer ...

Open-source PBX software that runs under Linux and other Unix variants on a variety of hardware, including x86, PowerPC, POWER and Xscale. Supporting traditional telephony (TDM) as well as voice over ...

If you've ever wanted more control over incoming phone calls at home or at the office, setting up a PBX system could be the solution, and Geek.com's John Rogers has a tutorial for you. He explains ...

The FBI today issued a warning that open source IP-PBX software from Asterisk can be used to conduct vishing attacks on private information. VoIP-based vishing takes advantage of caller ID spoofing to ...

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users as well as businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make ...