With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

I’ve had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...

If you've ever wanted more control over incoming phone calls at home or at the office, setting up a PBX system could be the solution, and Geek.com's John Rogers has a tutorial for you. He explains ...

The new interface opens Asterisk up not only to the existing community of users and developers, but also to a much wider audience of business app developers. At this year's 10th-anniversary AstriCon, ...

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 ...

Barrett Lyon has created a don't miss resource that shows you how to configure P2P SIP URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) dialing on your Asterisk-based PBX. "There are thousands of people that operate ...

Some open-source projects have a certain perverse economic madness about them. For example, as I wrote about last month, you can use $600–$700 US worth of hardware and MythTV to re-create the TiVo box ...

First of all let’s get our terminology straight. Now that everyone in the world has leaped onto the telephony train, telephony terminology has suffered. Terms that have long had precise, well-defined ...

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users and businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more ...

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south ...