Digium, Inc. announced details for Digium Asterisk|World, a new conference debuting only to showcase advancing open source IP telephony communications in the business world. Its inaugural debut will take place next week, October 30-31, in Boston, Massachusetts and will share billing with Fall VON. Digium CTO Mark Spencer has been tapped to present the Industry [...]
The South African wireless internet operator iBurst says it plans to introduce IP-based voice telephony services later this month and will offer new customers a free VoIP handset in a bid to improve take-up. Its existing 55,000 subscribers will be able to buy the phone for ZAR200 (USD30), while all customers will be allocated a [...]
Its VoIP phone announcement yesterday represented a significant step towards Microsoft’s IP telephony goals. Nine manufacturers unveiled 15 IP telephones that will be compatible with Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft’s software for providing IP PBX functions over a corporate network. The manufacturers included ASUSTek Computer, GN Netcom, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Polycom, Samsung, Tatung and ViTELiX [...]
Asterisk hasn’t been around all that long, but it has become the standard for open source VoIP PBX. In a keynote session at the Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference here, Kevin Fleming, senior software engineer at Digium and co-maintainer of Asterisk, told an overflow capacity crowd of Asterisk lovers what the future holds for their [...]
Today’s VoIP resellers can rest assured that there’s simply no shortage of business opportunities being presented by VoIP. Consider this: Palo Alto, Calif., based Radicati Group Inc., recently forecast that nearly three-quarters of corporate phone lines will use VoIP within the next 3 years. Jumping on board are businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shops to blue [...]
