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InternetNews: From the 'I was a 1.0 user!' files
CRN: "Digium Thursday confirmed the release of Asterisk 10, the latest version of the 12-year-old Asterisk open-source telephony platform."
Digium: We are fast approaching the seven-year anniversary of the release of Asterisk 1.0.0...
eWeek: "Two weeks after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype, the voice over IP company has begun cutting its ties with the open-source world. Asterisk was the first partner cut loose."
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VoIP Planet: "The open source Asterisk project started off as an effort to be an on-premise IP-PBX. Over the years, demand for increasingly scalable and modular approaches for voice communications has grown, which is why a new Asterisk project is being announced this week."
LWN.net: "Version 1.8.0 of the Asterisk telephony system has been released; this is a major, long-term-supported release."
VoIP Planet: "Finally, there is a new long-term support (LTS) version of the open source Asterisk VoIP IP-PBX system. Asterisk 1.8 is being released this week, marking the first new LTS for Asterisk since the 1.4 release in 2006 ."
VoIP Planet: "Open source software is being used today by all types of companies and organizations—even the Republican Party is an adopter."
VoIP Planet: "The Ubuntu Linux distribution isn't the only open source project with a long-term-support release on the horizon. The Asterisk open source VoIP PBX (define) project is moving ahead with its own long-term support (LTS) plans with its 1.8 release."
VoIP Planet: "With the launch of a new marketplace where vendors can reach out to integrators and solution providers, Asterisk sponsor Digium is says it will make available a range of products and services based on the open-source platform."
The VAR Guy: "From Polycom to Skype, a long list of companies will evangelize Digium’s open source IP PBX during the Asterisk World conference (January 20-22, Miami Beach, Fla.)"
HowtoForge: "This document describes the installation of the Automatic Dialer GNUDialer, this is an alternative dialer to VICIDial, with more lightweight scripts and a far more easier GUI."
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Asterisk bills itself as "the world's leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit." You can use it as the basis of a fully featured, enterprise-class phone system in your organization."
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Building your own corporate phone system using the Asterisk open source telephony suite could result in massive cost savings for your company, but it's not for the faint-hearted: Asterisk is a complex system, and if you mess up the phone system it could end up costing you your job."
InternetNews: "Two big forces in the world of VoIP are coming together in a new solution called Skype for Asterisk (SfA)."
Howtoforge: "Asterisk is one of the best telephony solutions which is free to use. There are others such as yate that provide same type of solutions and even more custom ones."
Packt: "The idea of this two-part article by Colman Carpenter, David Duffett, Ian Plain, and Nik Middleton is to give an introduction to the area of wireless technologies by asking, "Why integrate Asterisk with wireless technologies?""
Packt: "In this part, we will cover the following: How to change the tones generated and recognized by Asterisk Where and how to affect the way times, dates, and so on are announced How to change the language of system prompts"
The VAR Guy: "When fall 2009 arrives in North America, Digium hopes to stage an Asterisk uprising. Digium is planning at least two major training and education events for the open source IP PBX"
HowtoForge: "In this tutorial, I will describe how to install and configure Asterisk 1.6 on a Debian system to work with PostgreSQL in order to manage CDR (Call Detail Records) and real-time configuration."
Netstat -vat: "The open source Asterisk VoIP PBX is now at its 1.6.x release -- it's a number that Asterisk is going to stay at for a long time. That's the message that Kevin Fleming, Director of Software Technologies at Digium and co-maintainer of the Asterisk told attendess at the IT360 conference here in Toronto. "
Mark Spencer has announced the release of AsteriskNOW 1.5.0, a CentOS-based Linux distribution and software appliance that includes Asterisk (the world's leading open-source telephony engine and toolkit), AsteriskGUI, and other software needed for an Asterisk system: "AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 is immediately available for download (existing users can run 'yum....
The VAR Guy: "Instead of ignoring open source conferences, Microsoft continues to invade them."
The VAR Guy: "The big picture: Is Fonality really an open source company?"
Packt: "Asterisk AGI enables an IVR developer to develop IVR structures that are sometimes, bordering on the absurd, as applications tend to become more and more complex by using AGI. However, there are some scenarios where common dialplan practices are no longer applicable, and the use of an external logic is a must. Enter AGI!"
Packt: "In this article by Nir Simionovich, we will develop our first ever AGI script using PHP scripting language. This article deals with the most basic elements of AGI scripting and the information contained within. So, take time to familiarize yourself with this article, especially if you intend to use a language different from PHP."
The VAR Guy: "It was an interesting chat, but our resident blogger is looking further down the road and expects Asterisk certification to be the next big trend for VoIP solutions providers. Here's why."