Asterisk’s open source architecture makes it the perfect communication application to integrate with 3rd party applications. Some people call this Communication Enabled Business Process (CEBP), we like to think it’s simply common sense… trying to get your business applications talking together.

Let me play Devil’s Advocate for a bit. Almost everywhere you look these days, IT professionals are hawking VoIP to business and residential consumers alike. The ILECs are in, the Cable companies are in, and VoIP providers spring up almost over night to provide ever lower per minute charges on phone calls. The benefits of VoIP center around cost, extending existing infrastructure, and extending the fabric of the nebulous Internet. All of these advantages entice unsuspecting business owners and IT professionals alike to jump on the bandwagon of $avings! But this panacea for the ails of America’s aging telephony infrastructure hide a nasty side-effect – a complete and total lack of oversight and standards.