A New Timing API for Asterisk, Silencing Digium Critics

Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Jeremy

Russell Bryant has post details of a new timing API for Asterisk:

Starting with Asterisk 1.6.1, you will no longer need DAHDI installed at all to get proper timing in Asterisk. There is a new timing API, and there are already two implementations. There is a DAHDI timing interface (res_timing_dahdi) and another (res_timing_pthread) that has no [...]

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Bye Bye Telecomm Heavyweights. The Future of Telecommunications is Open Source

Posted on June 21st, 2007 by Jeremy

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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