Recently Olle E Johansson posted some details about his achievement of placing 10,000 simultaneous calls on a single Asterisk server.

Most large enterprises would naturally write an RFP for something as critical as their communication systems but also these are the Fortune companies who still haven’t really caught onto the awesomeness of Open Source IP PBX systems, though sooner or later they will and there are some things they should know when writing an RFP specifically for an OS IP PBX.

I believe that Asterisk is at a crossroads and has been for some time. Asterisk stands on the Path of Life for applications and ponders a fork clearly visible: Free or Commercial? Champions of the Cause of Asterisk on either side of the path cheer for one of the two forks. Which choice will the application make? Do the creators, contributors, designers, and dreamers really have a say in the matter? Is everyone making noise for nothing?

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.

Learn how and where Open Source VoIP can and should be used within the carrier space.

Presence is one of those nifty little features that just totally impresses the heck out of most users… and it’s entirely possible with Asterisk+bluetooth. Presence is the ability for the IP PBX to recognize when someone’s in or out of the office. When you’re in the office, the IP PBX will route calls to your [...]

Just today I stumbled on this article written by Flavio E. Goncalves which compares Asterisk and OpenSER. It’s a short and concise article worth sharing with you all. Here’s a few snippets.
“If you work with IP telephony, it’s quite possible that you have not heard about OpenSER, but certainly you must have heard about Asterisk. [...]