Asterisk VOIP Tips

In any technology solution, the upfront cost, or the initial cost needed even when just want to initially test if the solution will work for your needs is one factor that many business clients consider in their evaluation and purchases. This is true for most solution stack, including PBX/VOIP Solutions.With the advantages and savings that open source solutions such as Asterisk offers, more and more companies feel the need to integrate Internet telephony in their infrastructure. Now, with the latest “offspring” of Digium’s purchase of Switchvox, small businesses can “test the waters” before spending the money on their PBX systems. Thanks to  Switchvox’s Free Edition. It lets potential customers to use the PBX software with zero upfront cost.

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According to MyVOIPConsultant, an Asterisk Consulting Service, their porfits for the first two quarters of this fiscal year (2007) exceeds their expectations giving them record-breaking profits for the year so far. MyVOIPConsultant co-founder and CEO, Cullen Powell, attributes the success of their business to the growing popularity of Asterisk. According to Powell, “The VoIP industry..has an estimated 10 million VoIP users in 2007 and a number expected to grow to 24 million by the end of 2008, you can get an idea of how well the industry has been treating us. The bottom line is [Asterisk] saves people money, and lots of it. Especially businesses. Everyone is switching to VoIP, and if they’re not they will eventually. You can say goodbye to your conventional phone systems. As for MyVoIPConsultant, we really didn’t expect to see these kinds of numbers and we’re just amazed at how successful the company has been. Watch out for us in 2008, because we’ll be rapidly expanding into new markets.”

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Digium recently launched its new partnership program. The program’s aim is “to form a closer relationship between Digium and companies that have implemented Digium and Asterisk technology in their products.” The partner program is of course beneficial to Digium since it will encourage partner companies, and those that aspire to be partner companies, to develop even better Asterisk-based products. On the other hand, being a Digium partner is also very beneficial especially in terms of product and services promotion.

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Digium, true to the open-source spirit of Asterisk, is very involved with interacting with their product’s business and user community by participating in, and more recently, hosting their own conferences and trade shows. Last week, the two-day Digium Asterisk World Conference debuted at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The highlight of which was of course Digium CTO Mark Spencer’s industry perspective keynote address, “The Road Ahead is Open.” and the new Switchvox Free Edition that was released in time for the conference.

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I don’t know how I missed this, but I just came across an excellent Asterisk How-to guide on howtoforge.com, the excellent site that houses an increasing amount of guides of doing many things on Linux. The article is entitled “Installing the Asterisk PBX and The Asterisk Web-Based Provisioning GUI on Linux” and it provides a good step-by-step guide on getting started with Asterisk PBX on your favorite Linux distribution.

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3Com is actively expanding its product offerings by launching new products to cater to all businesses from small businesses to businesses with about 200 users. The three new voice products the company has added to its product listing includes two new VCX Connect models plus the 3Com Asterisk Appliance.

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Digium Inc., the company behind the popular open source VOIP platform Asterisk, has announced that it has acquired Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This acquisition strengthens Digium’s presence in the SMB market and provides even more avenue for the deployment and improvement of its Asterisk-based solutions.

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Linux’s popularity and extensibility brought about by its open source design has brought many application providers to configure linux distributions that include an integrated and pre-configured versions of their applications. Also because of the nature of open source culture, it may not be necessary that the original developers of the application will be the one to “bring out” this particular distribution. Such is the case of the AstLinux Project.

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Asterisk was announced the clear winner of this year’s BOSSIE (Best of Open Source Software) Award for VOIP Telephony by InfoWorld. InfoWorld acknowledged the superiority of Asterisk above other open source VOIP technologies such as OpenPBX and FreeSwitch in their 2007 BOSSIE Special Report. According to InfoWorld,

“Asterisk is by far the most mature and scalable of the lot, and it’s taking the VoIP world by storm. Yes, it’s hideously complex in places, but also immensely configurable, and compatible with darn near everything.”

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Voiceroute showed off its Druid Live a new version of the Druid Telephony Platform during last week’s TMC ITEXPO West 2007. Voiceroute claims that with DRUID Live, DRUID is now not just the best GUI for Asterisk in the market, but is also the “first truly plug and play CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocal) based auto-provisioning of Cisco, Polycom and Linksys phones with additional VLAN based auto-provisioning of Aastra, Snom and GrandStream phones.”

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