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 ...

Asterisk, the open source Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) project, released patches for a security hole in its virtual private branch exchange (PBX) software over the weekend. The hole exists in ...

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 ...

Digium sent us their Asterisk open source software PBX to CT Labs. It was installed on a dual-processor Linux server. With help from the Digium representative, we were able to connect three SIP phones ...

The FBI is toning down its warning about security flaws in Asterisk IP PBX software and is acknowledging that the company that markets the software already found the problem and fixed it back in March ...

Open source VoIP represents a small part of the overall enterprise market with its strongest play in small organizations looking for an inexpensive, customizable solution. A Cisco integrator quoted ...

For more on this topic, see our Asterisk VoIP PBX guide. One hundred years ago, long before it became mainstream to talk about conservation and long before the so-called “carbon profile,” a presumably ...

You love a good project; you want extensions in your house so you don't have to get a separate line for each of your kids. You want hold music. You want advanced sets. So you want to roll your own ...

Having completed its campus-wide wireless network last year, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia has joined the handful of enterprises deploying the open source Asterisk IP-PBX ...

Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted Asterisk creator Mark Spencer clarifies his position on hybrid-hosted VoIP, and discusses open source VoIP and what it ...