Digium Founder Mark Spencer Recounts the History of Open Source Asterisk PBX
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| Mark got started with Linux early in 1994 Slackware (kernel version 1.09).
| One of the few in Auburn, AL at the time that knew anything about Linux.
| After a stint with Adtran (a global provider of communications equipment) he
| moved out on his own starting a company called Linux Support Services. Mark
| traded his services for space in the back of a local computer store in
| Huntsville, AL. He started by building his own computer and eventually built
| his own phone switch informed by his experience developing GAIM (now Pidgin)
| among other open source projects.
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| He attributes their early success contributions from this technical audience
| with contributions from hundreds of developers and feedback generated by over
| a million downloads in 2007. They also benefited from the fact that
| traditional telephone systems were very expensive and features didn’t
| translate from one system to another. Asterisk was very cost effective,
| configurable, and capable of VOIP in an industry with no clear leader. Also
| there was a fundamental shift in the industry from hardware switches to
| software switches.
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http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/16/digium-founder-mark-spencer-recounts-the-history-of-open-source-asterisk-pbx/
There are many siblings too.
Ring Carrier Selects TelcoBridges' TMG3200 Media Gateway to Deliver the
Industry's Most Scalable Open Source IP-PBX Solution
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| Ring Carrier provides hosted IP-PBX solutions, the most advanced softswitch
| on the market, and the Ring Provider GUI, which enables the creation of an
| Asterisk® PBX in less than 2 minutes.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/3/prweb776704.htm
Related:
Junction Networks uses Asterisk to tailor VoIP to customer demands
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| Oeth is no stranger to open source. In the early '90s he started Interport
| Communications, an ISP that eventually became the second largest in New York
| City. In that business he got "very familiar" with Apache Web servers and a
| host of open source tools. After he sold Interport, Oeth was looking for
| another business. "Knowing all the advantages of open source, we saw a lot of
| similarities between Apache and Asterisk. We knew we could install this, get
| a conference bridge up and running, and have the cheapest one out there."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/125794
Asterisk is no longer just a PBX footnote
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| While Asterisk IP PBX software can be a boon for cash-strapped businesses
| that need phone upgrades, the free, open source platform has also spawned a
| host of for-profit vendors that charge for Asterisk professional services,
| peripherals and software extensions and still manage to undercut the prices
| charged by more established IP PBX vendors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012408-special-focus.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
InfoWorld Names Digium(R) Asterisk(R) a Top Technology Impacting 2008 IT
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| InfoWorld reports, "a complete IP PBX released as open source under the GNU
| Public License, Asterisk is built to run on commodity hardware, providing
| considerable cost savings when compared with commercial alternatives, and it
| leverages the open source community for additional testing, bug fixes, and
| feature development."
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-infoworld-names-digiumr-asteriskr-top-technology-impacting-2008-/2008/01/10/3204744.htm
http://tinyurl.com/36h9bl
Digium Unveils Business-Class "Digium|Asterisk Marketplace"
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| New Digium website provides a one-stop destination for Asterisk-related
| products and services
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http://www.digium.com/en/mediacenter/viewpress.php?id=digium-unveils-business-class-digium-asterisk-marketplace
Linux VoIP stack powers "kitchen communicator" design
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| Trolltech has announced a new spin on its Qtopia software stack for
| Linux-based devices.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7010437907.html
Asterisk awakens open source love in telecom entrepreneur
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| Fribush's previous company produced Web telephony software for the online
| dating industry. When that business was sold in 2006, he started looking for
| his next project and noticed an interesting trend. "We were looking at the
| Asterisk movement, and we started looking at some of the momentum," Fribush
| says. "It was a big disrupter. And we thought that one of the missing pieces
| was a turnkey solution where the application was actually hosted." Fribush
| partnered with his friend Michael Rand to launch Aretta
| Communications. "That's really the start of my open source background. I've
| really always been a Microsoft guy. You get converted when you see the power
| of open source tools. Now it is the majority of our infrastructure."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/123066
Digium preps Asterisk Linux distribution
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| "We developed our own GUI [which is] similar to Trixbox [distribution],
| but the purpose of AsteriskNow is to provide a distribution built
| around Asterisk technology so people can use it without the GUI," he
| said. "The GUI is the same as the Asterisk Appliance that looks
| like a Linksys router that runs Asterisk and has analogue ports."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1047335524;fp;2;fpid;1
Linux dominating VoIP devices?
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| Trolltech says its development framework and software stack for mobile
| devices was selected by Skype as the preferred platform for Skype-certified
| VoIP (voice-over-IP) phones. Additionally, the Qtopia framework/stack has
| been used in about 40 VoIP devices, making it the "dominant Linux
| development platform for VoIP/WiFi devices," according to Trolltech.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9974606142.html
Digium Takes Best of Open Source Software Award
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| Bossie judges singled out Digium for being the “most mature and scalable” IP
| PBX currently available.
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http://www.voip-news.com/blog/20070918/digium-takes-best-of-open-source-software-award/
Choice Open-Source VoIP News Nuggets
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| The folks who maintain FreePBX, the popular Asterisk graphical interface and
| management system, held their first-ever Open Telephony Training Seminar last
| month in Charleston, South Carolina. It sold out early and was a big success,
| so there will be another one this May in Las Vegas. The course covers how to
| market, sell, deploy, troubleshoot, customize, and administer
| Asterisk/FreePBX systems. In addition, they added an optional "Day 0" that
| provides a basic foundation in both Linux skills and FreePBX basics.
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http://www.voipplanet.com/news/article.php/3733006
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