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The eight annual AstriCon, an Asterisk user conference and expo dedicated to expanding awareness and knowledge of the highly popular open source platform, will take place from October 26-28 at the Westin Westminster in Denver, Colorado, Asterisk Company Digium revealed on Monday.
5/9/2011
The Digium-sponsored event, now in its seventh year, attracts software developers, integrators, resellers, enterprise Asterisk users, and Digium partners working with phone systems, unified communications and voice over IP (VoIP).
5/5/2010
Digium, the Huntsville, Ala.-based company that created and develops Asterisk, the open source telephony platform, announced today that it has partnered with IBM to create an Asterisk-based phone system that is now available for the IBM Smart Cube platform.
The IBM Smart Cube is a pre-integrated solution that includes hardware, the operating system, security, backup, middleware and the necessary components to run business applications that SMBs can download from the IBM Smart Market. All of the applications, now including Asterisk for Smart Cube, are designed to handle the appliance's fast software installations, company officials said.
10/15/2009
Dialogic Corp. is in beta with its DiaStar Server, version 1.1, which extends existing Dialogic video features to the open source/Asterisk marketplace.
10/14/2009
The company has revamped its Asterisk Web site, at www.asterisk.org, which now includes a job bank, documentation, downloadable source code and more. The company is also seeking input, in terms of "new recipes" and other new ideas, from the Asterisk community for the site.
10/14/2009
Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google and the keynote speaker at AstriCon 2009 today, said it's too late for Asterisk to be vulnerable to those who would attack it and emphasized Google's involvement in the open source movement.
10/14/2009
The company offers telephony cards that are compatible with a number of open source telephony projects as well as proprietary SIP-based applications to help software-based communication applications run more efficiently and cost-effectively.
10/14/2009
We believe the relatively inexpensive price of open source systems, compared to proprietary ones (up to 40 percent less, according to a recent report by Eastern Management Group), as well as the flexibility for custom development and integration makes Asterisk an attractive value proposition.
10/13/2009
Positron Telecommunication Systems Inc., which is exhibiting its VoIP-enabled PBX systems this week at Astricon 2009, in Glendale Ariz., has announced that Bitmovers Srl is now an official member of the Positron Partner program and will be reselling Positron's PBX PCI Adapter products in Italy.
10/13/2009
Positron Telecommunication Systems Inc., which is showcasing its VoIP-enabled PBX (News - Alert) systems this week at Astricon 2009, in Glendale Ariz., has announced that its V-Series PBX PCI adapters are fully interoperable with Vyatta's (News - Alert) open networking and security software, providing an easy to use, integrated voice and data networking solution.
10/13/2009
Calling itself the "first business SIP phone manufacturer" to do so, snom today announced its support of the TR-069 standard developed by the International Broadband Forum.
10/13/2009
The Asterisk market is going strong and growing even during this economic downturn, an official with a Greenville, S.C.-based company with a distribution channel of more than 5,000 independent resellers throughout the United States and foreign nations told TMCnet during an interview.
10/7/2009
According to Jim Dalton, CEO of TransNexus, Inc., Asterisk and a couple of other open source telecom projects are "the most significant leading indicators for the future of telecommunications. If you are not watching developments in the Asterisk community, you have your head in the sand."
10/7/2009
The National Defense University (NDU) is building the "classroom of the future" with an advanced immersive telepresence environment from Polycom Inc., a provider of telepresence, video and voice communication solutions.
10/6/2009
You can see Asterisk doing to the proprietary PBX market what Linux has done – and continues to do – to proprietary operating systems in corporate and Web server markets.
10/5/2009
Citel, whose U.S. headquarters are in Amherst, N.Y., is attending AstriCon 2009, in part, to introduce customers and other Asterisk users to a new firmware release for the Portico TVA designed with Asterisk user in mind.
10/2/2009
According to Alistair Cunningham, managing director of Integrics Ltd, Asterisk already has widespread acceptance among the technical community, its growth driven by "its power and flexibility as a telephony development platform, as well as its open source nature."
10/1/2009
Steve Fralin, vice president of operations at NationsLine, said that NGT brings the perfect mix of a robust and scalable product offering, network reliability that is well managed and a depth of experience that is "unparalleled," making NGT an ideal partner.
9/23/2009
