Stories about: Pingtel

Belgian developer Dries Buytaert is on the verge of putting open source CMS (content management system) Drupal officially into business.

One of the first open source VoIP projects -- and one of the earliest VoIP PBXes, period -- is Digium-sponsored Asterisk. A highly mature platform licensed under the GPL, Asterisk supports almost everything that even larger enterprises would desire of a VoIP gateway solution, including voice mail, call forwarding, conferencing, and even IVR (Interactive Voice Response). It also has call-detail records -- the golden goose of VoIP -- as well as advanced features suitable for use in virtual classroom or virtual conference room applications. Its large developer community contributes still more add-ons for the platform, both commercial and open source.

One great thing about the open source movement is that if there's a feature of any kind that someone somewhere needs, it will be made available for everyone. As a result, the open source PBXes tested here are feature-filled Swiss Army knives of communications solutions.

An open source group has posted free Session Initiation Protocol-based PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers -- but drawing business customers to the technology could be an uphill effort.

In February, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered "a focused examination and assessment of California state government." The US$10 million review, conducted by about 275 state employees and released in early August, calls for about a bizillion changes to the way that state's government is run.

An open source community dedicated to the development of IP voice applications based on session initiation protocol is to launch Tuesday at the VON 2004 conference.

A move by US IP telephony vendor Pingtel could be a boon to enterprises interested in deploying VoIP systems based on open source software and server platforms, like Linux.

A glitch in some vendors’ Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software could leave SIP-enabled devices - such as IP phones, IP PBXs and instant messaging clients - vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, the CERT Coordination Center said last week.

Zultys Technologies made its US debut this week with the MX1200 - an IP telephony server, or IP PBX - aimed at replacing circuit-switch phone networks in small businesses.

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 components.

If you're looking for a cost-effective way to off-load voice traffic onto your data network, but can't choose between the alphabet soup of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) standards on offer, your decision may soon be simplified.