Aspect Software has announced it is supporting the emerging open source Internet protocol for PBX (private branch exchange) — the Asterisk Business Edition — with a software package that includes the ...

An open source group has posted free Session Initiation Protocol-based PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers – but drawing business customers to ...

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 ...

If it is free, does it have value? Free for business application, the open source PBX also has risks, costs and limitations. I took a look at this phenomenon in my webcast, "Asterisk -- Is 'free' good ...

The dizzying array of SMB VoIP products and unified communications available on the market means solution providers can pick and choose which features and capabilities to push to customers. That is ...

UK wireless networking company LocustWorld has added support for an open-source PBX application to its meshboxes which are used to build mesh networks. The software, called Asterisk, provides all the ...

The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks.

Should you consider Asterisk or any of the other open source communications software packages? Our columnist helps you get familiar with the pros and cons, the ins and outs of open source. I confess I ...

Eastern Management Group asked open source PBX customers about their decision-making. In Part 1 of a two-part article, we learn that most open source customers do consider multiple proprietary systems ...

In a move that might send shivers down the spines of mainstream IP PBX vendors like Avaya, Cisco and ShoreTel, Michigan CAT has deployed an open source Asterisk IP PBX to handle its phone calls and ...

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 ...