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Featured Asterisk Articles
Get the most from Asterisk by reading these featured articles from the VoIP Insider on Asterisk.
Asterisk Technical Information
Whether you’re new to Asterisk or have been using Asterisk for years, these technical articles are sure to help you learn more about Asterisk.
- Anatomy of an Open Source Phone System
- Asterisk Dial Plan Basics
- Hardware Echo Cancellation – Digium Versus Sangoma
Asterisk Hardware
Finding the right VoIP hardware for Asterisk can be difficult. This month the VoIP Insider recommends the following Asterisk hardware:
Last Asterisk News
First Look: New Digium Phones for Switchvox and Asterisk
What is it?
The new Digium phones are High-Definition IP Phones designed by Digium specifically for Switchvox UC System and Asterisk-based phone systems. There are 3 phones in the series, the Digium D70, D50, and D40.
What does it do?
The Digium phones connect seemlessly to any Asterisk-based phone system, including Switchvox, Digium’s UC System. When connected to [...]
Xorcom Clarifies TwinStar Resiliency Capabilities
With Digium’s help in a previous post I outlined how the new Digium R-Series failover appliances stack up against leading competitors solutions, including Xorcom.
If you’ve been comparing hardware, are in the market for a resiliency solution, and in need of how-to resources for maintaining Asterisk based communications in the event of a hardware or software failure; you are [...]
Switchvox Studies Showcase Savings
Switchvox is Digium’s family of VoIP (Voice Over IP) Phone Systems for small and medium businesses. If your small operation is looking for examples that mirror your own application, new Switchvox case studies have been posted that show how to:
Better manage call centers and address customer frustrations.
Save up to 40% with Switchvox over competitive telecommunication systems.
Increase [...]
Digium Switchvox Goes Mobile for Android
Digium, the Asterisk company, has added a Switchvox Mobile app to integrate their small to medium business (SMB) communications solutions for Android devices.
This free app, available for download in the Android Market, now rounds out their mobile support that already include iPhone and Blackberry users.
Switchvox product line director Tristan Barnum notes that there’s been some anticipation:
“With [...]
Digium vs. Sangoma: Which PCI Cards Are Better?
I was given then dubious task of comparing Digium vs. Sangoma PCI cards. I probably would have been better off if I’d been tasked with “Who’s the bigger train wreck, Linsday Lohan or Charlie Sheen?”
In both cases, it’s like comparing green apples to red ones. Both have their good points and both have not so good [...]
3CX Versus Asterisk
Windows…Er…3CX vs. Asterisk
We all know the capabilities and endless feature set of Asterisk. It’s a powerful, software based PBX, that’s possibilities are endless. Asterisk is distributed in a number of ways, the first being the open sourced distribution that is command line driven. This distribution, 1.6.2.11 being the latest stable version can be downloaded from [...]