Here’s your network’s dirty little secret: Your private branch exchange (PBX) is old and outdated, and if you want to bring it into the modern era with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), you’re ...

With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

Three of the four products in this Clear Choice Test have a version of Asterisk at their core, but Asterisk founder Digium also assembles and supports several of its own packaged versions of Asterisk: ...

To understand the challenges in building an embedded IP-PBX we first needto take a look at a typical PC-based x86 Asterisk PBX. Figure 1: Block diagram of a typical PC based Asterisk PBX. In this case ...

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 ...

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, you need to deploy a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) system for your small office. Or, maybe you want a voice-mail system running on your Linux box at home. What about an interactive voice response ...