Now that Asterisk has gone mainstream, more and more Asterisk installations are happening in home environments.
Asterisk is perfect to power a residential phone system, as the cost of entry is now very obtainable, unlike in years past. In fact, you can even run Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54G, along with many many other Linux based [...]
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Today The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S.704, a bill that would make it illegal for anyone within the United States to spoof their caller ID, “with misleading or inaccurate caller identification information…in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service.”
The bill specifically exempts law enforcement and provides a [...]
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I just came across a very interesting article from Dana Blankenhorn about how the future of telecommunications is open source. The Heavyweights of years past are quickly seeing the industry being seriously disrupted by a single open source application called, you guessed it, Asterisk.
From the article:
“The large carriers have Asterisk in their lab. Some [...]
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