Open-source telephony is a system supporting all types of telephony applications such as PBXes, call centers, interactive voice response systems, chat lines and many other types of voice technologies.

Skype Technologies on Tuesday launched a test version of its Net telephony software for handheld devices. The new application, called PocketSkype, is designed for PDAs (personal digital assistants) ...

Conformance to industry standards such as SIP is greatly helping drive down system costs and enhancing design choice flexibility. In my recent No Jitter article reviewing the VoiceCon Orlando RFP ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

Gavin Cowie isn't in the Net phone business, but it didn't take him long to figure out why the technology has never taken off "It's worth it because it's so cheap, but sometimes it sounds like I'm ...

Should you consider Asterisk or any of the other open source communications software packages? Our columnist helps you get familiar with the pros and cons, the ins and outs of open source. I confess I ...

Open source IP telephony software packages are helping users move away from the traditional world of proprietary office phone systems, PBXs with closed operating systems and expensive specialty ...

In the US, for example, this is done as a political appointment by the state department, rather than from among the best and brightest minds. Our goal was not only to produce a telephony server as ...

(For those new to the column, Forward Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A forward migration kit is ...