ssokol September 30th, 2011
What can be found in more than 170 countries and has logged millions of downloads? Asterisk! The leading open source communications platform, Asterisk has provided telephony solutions for companies of all types and sizes, including the likes of Google, IBM and Yahoo! Yet, not everyone realizes the global footprint that Asterisk and Digium have, today. [...]
Bryan Johns September 8th, 2011
This year’s Astricon event is less than 2 months away and it is shaping-up to be the best show yet! As our trip to Denver, Colorado approaches, I wanted to take a moment to bring everyone up to speed on the details of the show as they have been finalized. If you haven’t done so [...]
Kevin P. Fleming July 21st, 2011
We are fast approaching the seven-year anniversary of the release of Asterisk 1.0.0, which occurred at the first AstriCon in September, 2004. If you look back a little further, there were various “0.x” releases made as early as December of 1999… my, how time has flown! We’ve had quite a few ‘major’ releases of Asterisk [...]
Bryan Johns July 18th, 2011
More than seven years ago, Russell Bryant joined the Asterisk development team as a student at Clemson University. Over his time with the Asterisk project, Russell has been instrumental in the creation, growth and management of the world’s most popular open source communications platform. However, seven years is a long time to work within the [...]
Bryan Johns May 3rd, 2011
Last week marked the retirement of the 1.4 and 1.6 branches of Asterisk to security maintenance only. This means that the 1.4 and 1.6 versions of the Asterisk open source telephony framework will only receive necessary security patches going forward and all feature enhancements, bug-fixes and other new work will be applied to the 1.8 [...]