We're some months away from moving and looking to replace our old Siemens HiPath PBX with something VoIP based. One of the first things that came to my mind was a media Gateway, Asterisk and SIP ...

The author is assistant chief engineer of Radio One Dallas. For years, Radio One Dallas had a Nortel phone system that seemingly required a service call for anything beyond switching out a handset ...

Skype did a great job of pushing VoIP into the mainstream, but if you've considered graduating up from their closed platform to a more open, flexible system such as the open-source Asterisk project ...

Editor's note: This article is based in large part on information provided by Mark Spencer and Digium. I recently had a reason to approve a purchase of a new phone system for a small company. Twenty ...

Will this be the year open-source PBX and VoIP systems are ready for their close-up? The opportunity is better than ever, argued attendees at January's Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami.

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 ...

Here’s your network’s dirty little secret: Your private branch exchange (PBX) is old and outdated, and if you want to bring it into the modern era with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), you’re ...

So, you need to deploy a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) system for your small office. Or, maybe you want a voice-mail system running on your Linux box at home. What about an interactive voice response ...

Setting up a phone system isn't the sexiest part of launching a small business, but it's one of the more important—as you'll discover if you do it wrong. If you've got the IT bandwidth, however, you ...