Michel Vaillancourt, a member of the Asterisk developer community, entrepreneur, and small business owner of JKL5Group, shares business and technical experiences, advice, and plans.
Get ready to enjoy not only learning more about open source technology and telecommunications services from a great storyteller.The podcasts are in three parts and are available on Techistan,
DIDX podcasts and on iTunes. The transcriptions of the podcasts will continue from here.Suzanne Bowen: Michel Vaillancourt is CEO of and among a team at JKL5Group.

The VAR Guy queries Digium CEO Danny Windham, “What is the Asterisk Exchange?”
Mr. Windham replies, “Asterisk Exchange is a website that Digium is launching on Thursday the 21st in conjunction with ITEXPO. It is a marketplace that is designed to be a one stop shop for products that are Asterisk-based, add-ons for Asterisk, and products [...]

Columbia 400 and Mark Spencer, inventor of Asterisk

Listen to Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four interview with Mark Spencer.
The Techistan staff asked for contributions through social media such as Twitter, fring, Skype, Linkedin, and Facebook for what to talk with Mark about. Fred Posner of TeamForrest in USA, Steven Cayona of DIDX in Florida, Max Glucksmann of Comtel-Networksin Florida, Brough Turner (respected [...]

Media have bombarded us in the last twelve months with economic doom and gloom under the current and new USA administration. Yet there are more people flying and participating in conferences, unemployment rates are falling and there is more innovation than ever. Where can you connect? ITEXPO East Jan. 20-22, 2010 in [...]

September 21, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Hina Iqbal Siddiqui.
My name is Allison Smith, and I have — to say the least — an unusual job.
Most people listen to automated voices on telephone systems on a daily basis and never really give much thought as to just *who* does those recordings [...]

Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh.
In a mere four days, developers and code gurus from around the world who have discovered the unlimited potential and versatility of Asterisk — the fastest-growing telephony platform in the world today — will gather in beautiful Glendale, Arizona October 13-15 for a concentrated three days of amazing talks, [...]

John Lodden, a FreeSWITCH technical and business developer and DIDX member, shares his ideas on direct inward dialing over SIP. We were enjoying Cluecon conference in Chicago where open source developers convene, converge, collaborate, debate and innovate each year.

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On the other hand, [...]

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John usually talks to audiences who are very unhappy because they don’t own the network nor have control over QoS, but WISPs and other ISPs attending ISPCON are in control and do own the network. The voice they sell can be as good or bad as they are willing to enable with [...]

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This is first of four recordings of John Todd presenting on Asterisk at ISPCON 2008.
“Asterisk is the hammer for all voice nails,” says John. He encourages the audience to be skeptical and test the thoughts and ideas he shares at ISPCON in San Jose, California during 2008.
This if the first of four [...]