A French Mediterranean resort hotel was expanding their units and voila, voIP is not dead! A shift in clientele showed increased business traffic: retreats and tiger-team think-tank sessions…
Have you heard of Asterisk? Mark Spencer? Digium? They are responsible for millions..
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 [...]
Steven Johnson, a President of Ingate Systems, served prior to this as CEO of Abrena, Inc., a business development consulting firm focused on assisting European and N. A. firms expand in the USA. Ingate’s heart and soul is housed in its Technology Center, located in Linköping, Sweden. We interviewed Steven on Ingate history, the [...]
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 Suzanne Bowen.
Quite often, I get Asterisk prompt orders through the Digium site in which the client has written something like: “….this phrase comes after ‘Please enter your..’ and before ‘followed by pound.’” It’s a lot of effort to explain where the prompt will occur — especially when I have [...]
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November 28th, 2008
Previously I had compressed this the wrong way with a result of chipmunk voices.
Corrected and pretty cool! Frognet started in 1996 as a dial-up ISP company. The availability of open source telephony software is only one part of the business operation equation. Other real costs to manage an ISP business [...]
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I started recording this section with John Todd’s slide Multi-Dimensional Niche: Mobile! Open BTS for example is a GSM bay station. This was available to cell phones at Burning Man via the IP side. Calls went out over Asterisk and then to a WIFI trunk and then to a SIP termination provider. [...]
