Open Source VoIP, founded June 1st 2008, is a weblog dedicated to Open Source technologies in Voice Over IP. Specific technologies of discussion will include Asterisk and all its flavors, OpenSER, Zimbra, and much more. We are dedicated to reviewing and discussing new OS VoIP products, services & applications in addition to uncovering telephony products where Open Source technologies like Asterisk may be running the show behind the scenes.

OS-VoIP also provides extremely focused referrals to technology professionals searching for a specific Open Source VoIP solution through our highly selective community of Open Source VoIP specialists.

OS-VoIP is edited by me, Aaron Rosenthal. I am an Open Source VoIP guru at a leading OS engineering firm in NYC. I am not an engineer, don’t confuse me for one. Although I take every possible effort to understand as much about the technologies I work with, don’t expect me to help troubleshoot your code. I am well versed in the capabilities of numerous OS telephony technologies, and what those technologies could mean for an enterprise organization, but how they actually work…. well I leave that up to my engineers.

About the Editor

What’s the deal with me you ask?

I originally grew up in Australia where I spent 14 years of my life in the most amazing city in the world, Melbourne- life isn’t complete without a visit to this marvelous city. After moving to the US I attended a small liberal arts college named Denison University. I majored in Cinema, founded a marketing and design startup called Rose Design Group which ended once I decided to leave Ohio.

In NYC I first launched myself into the telecommunications industry with an $800M CLEC. We opened a new sales office and territory and went through all the growing pains from a merger of 3 already successful CLEC’s. This is where I learned about carrier technologies and also realized that working for a carrier wasn’t for me.

And then there was Open Source telephony and everything changed.

Maybe it’s my anti-establishment, big brother despising, proprietary smiting self, or maybe I realized Open Source was the future of technology. One way or another, Open Source in the VoIP world is still a relatively new market and hence the reason why OS-VoIP.com is dedicated to exposing technology professionals to the fascinating emergence of Open Source telephony within the enterprise. If you use LinkedIn, let me encourage you to join The Asterisk Group or share ideas with other OS-VoIP enthusiasts at AsteriskTech, a social network I manage.

Beyond my involvement with OS-VoIP, I am a technology consultant with a leading OS engineering firm called Special Applied Intelligence. We engineer OS communication systems for enterprises, carriers, hosted VoIP providers, and defense contractors. We have a unique position within the OS telephony space due to our deep engineering experience with not only premise based communication systems but with carrier networks and enterprise IT infrastructures. By combining the powers of our network engineering group and our OS telephony group, everything we build in telephony has the unique stamp of being engineered with carrier grade levels of reliability and precision.

Working with large businesses daily allows me to keep my finger on the pulse of what enterprises demand from their communication technologies and how best Open Source might fill this need. With OS-VoIP.com I hope to share some of this experience with all of you!

Connect with the Editor

I’m an open networker and will connect with almost anyone. If you have an interesting company with a revolutionary product or service that could be of interest to our readers, I would love to hear about it! And if you’re lucky perhaps I’ll blog it. Anyone can connect with me via email at editor@os-voip.com or