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This week I’m using some link bait which discusses a few of the differences between Asterisk and FreeSWITCH. David Greenfield wrote a short blog post discussing one particular case study where FreeSWITCH was used over Asterisk. I wouldn’t say I’m all that crazy-go-nuts over the post but the topic is worth additional discussion since FreeSWITCH [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So last week Counterpath released a new audio conferencing solution called Quick Conference (QC). The Counterpath Eyebeam softphones have always been our softphone of choice with Asterisk and QC works just as well. Conferencing isn’t anything new to Asterisk and for a company with mild conferencing requirements, having control via handset over conference calls is [...]

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. [...]

This isn’t new news as I’ve been following these folks for months but they’re worth mentioning on this blog because I like the concept of a Visual Dialplan. I honestly don’t think this is going to become the widely adopted method for configuring an Asterisk system but it’s still pretty neat.
APSTEL’s Visual Dialplan is a [...]