Have you heard of Asterisk? Mark Spencer? Digium? They are responsible for millions..

(Written by SOFTEC Team and edited by Omar Shaikh, Techistan)
SOFTEC is an annual 2-day I.T. extravaganza held at FAST National University (FAST-NU), is organized and executed by SOFTEC Society (the largest student society of the university). Since the inaugural event in 1995, thousands have participated in the Software project competitions for undergraduate students. It is [...]

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 [...]

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.

Truth is that I “met” the authors of the book “Asterisk, the Future of Telephony” when I was an English teacher and had volunteered over email to help edit the documentation. It was a joy to interview Leif Madsen. The Asterisk rockstar* shares with us the history of how he became interested in voice, telephony, Asterisk and [...]

David Mandelstam, CEO of Sangoma
Sangoma is known for the ultimate quality of the PSTN cards and utilities that it delivers to the over 10,000 wholesale customers it serves.
We discuss the emphasis we both believe is needed on CEO interest in customers and team and ended with discussion of important conferences we both attend and [...]

I asked Brian and Anthony who is the CEO and they said, “It’s not like that.” FreeSWITCH™ emphasis is on quality, honesty, communication consolidation, and collaboration even among formerly-perceived competitors. The door is open.
They think about outside the technical arena such as in the recognition that everyone has a unique learning style. An important goal of FreeSWITCH™ [...]

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Part one of Skype with FreeSWITCH at Cluecon by Giovanni Maruzzelli. He has 15 years of IT experience and 10 years’ experience as consultant and entrepreneur creating, managing and advising start-up Internet companies; he has also experience as chief technology officer, trainer, lecturer and journalist on Information Technology issues.
Giovanni has deep knowledge [...]

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Vanita Suzanne and ? (please help me find the first lady’s name) organized the Asterisk Pavilion at the CommunicAsia in Singapore 2009 with 12 exhibitors and 13 sponsors such as Digium, Sangoma, intuit system integrators, OpenVox, Aruba, JCMex (certified Digium partner with over 180 distribution points across Asia), Adheva, Redfone, snom, Polycom, [...]

Daniel-Constantin is known as a pioneer, presenter, entrepreneur and developer in open source telephony and technology. What was formerly known as OPENSER project had to change its name to Kamailio. (www.ser.com claimed to infringe their trademark “SER”, so much simpler to change the name). Shortly after, there was a fork from Kamailio resulting in an additional open source project called openSIPS.