July 31st, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 2 Comments
I just got some tutorial chapters from PackT Publishing’s AsteriskNOW book by Nir Simionovich. Although most OS-VoIP readers aren’t developers, and the ones who are probably rarely use AsteriskNOW, I figured there’s no harm in putting these up even if only a few people find the chapters useful.
Here are the two chapters extracted from the [...]
July 25th, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 1 Comment
OS-VoIP is moving up in the world, or so I like to think. OS-VoIP will now be featured in AllTop’s VoIP section as a premium VoIP news resource. I say premium because it sounds better, and because I hear AllTop is selective in the news they serve which means you don’t have to worry about [...]
July 15th, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 2 Comments
Well… the title of this post is a little deceiving, Microsoft isn’t really “being Open”, but they’re openly (and officially) working with people who are, like Junction Networks… open by association Microsoft is!
When a company as big as Microsoft decides to form a partnership with a VoIP provider who’s network is openly, and almost entirely [...]
July 8th, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 14 Comments
This is a question I hear constantly and the answer typically relies on three things – cost, business size, and required functionality. Most small-mid sized businesses exploring the move to a new phone system will consider the ups and downs between purchasing a premise based IP PBX or a hosted VoIP solution. These days I [...]
July 3rd, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 8 Comments
At some point I’ll be writing a full article on the squillions of Open Source VoIP apps out there but until I find the time to do so, I want to share with you all this list called 74 Open Source VoIP Apps & Resource.
Here at OS-VoIP, one of the things I’m [...]
July 2nd, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | No Comments
Junction Networks is a better than average hosted VoIP provider and yesterday launched a new partner program which warrants a mention at OS-VoIP since many of our readers just might be interested.
Junction Networks’ OnSIP hosted VoIP product is almost entirely engineered using open source software like Asterisk. This is a testament to Asterisk and Open [...]
July 1st, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | No Comments
The second annual Digium Innovation Award is coming up folks! The deadline for your submissions is August 1st so don’t forget.
This award was created last year to showcase all the “innovative” applications for which Asterisk can be used. Those eligible for the award are all Digium|Asterisk customers and partners world-wide with solutions that are live [...]
