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- nullcodes, on 04/06/2008, -5/+164Dey took arr jobs!!
- frooo, on 04/06/2008, -6/+154Score 1 for homebrew software!
- egthareal, on 04/06/2008, -5/+131Umm this is from 2006.
- ComputerKraft, on 04/06/2008, -0/+90Asterisk is more than VOIP - it replaces the traditional PBX, the device responsible for "Thanks for calling [company X], for sales, press 1." It routes calls between extensions within an office.
- ferrell, on 04/06/2008, -1/+79>>even if it will be painful for the telecoms.
ESPECIALLY if it will be painful for the telecoms. :) - jerwong, on 04/06/2008, -2/+54No, Skype is not open source and costs money for businesses.
- MoofTheStoof, on 04/06/2008, -0/+47Boo Hoo.
They've been stifling innovation and holding onto old business models with a death grip. A shake up might not be pretty, but it usually means something good for the consumer. - MrViklund, on 04/06/2008, -9/+52Way to go.
- quakerorts, on 04/06/2008, -11/+48This should be great for our economy at a time when businesses really need to cut costs, even if it will be painful for the telecoms.
- jk47h3, on 04/06/2008, -7/+42is this seriously an article from 2006 on the front page???!?!?!?!?! COME ON!!!
- anthm, on 04/06/2008, -3/+382006 was the same year I stopped working on Asterisk and coded my own open source soft switch from scratch that is being released this May. Today's news vs Yesterday's Check out FreeSWITCH http://www.freeswitch.org
- clearzen, on 04/06/2008, -0/+33asterisk serves a totally different set of needs?
- rockchops, on 04/06/2008, -28/+59And lose 99.9% of their support should something go wrong.
- VenTatsu, on 04/06/2008, -1/+28Have you ever dealt with traditional PBX support? I'd much rather have to log in to IRC to have a question answered than have to call in for support when my phones don't work. It would be amusing, if it wasn't so much hassle, trying to explain to your boss that you can't call for emergency support because you can't make any calls from your internal phones.
- darkphan, on 04/06/2008, -10/+31Enough of this type of bitching already.
- Ravatar, on 04/06/2008, -3/+23There are plenty of places that there that provide specialized asterisk support. Like the Asterisk Appliance, it includes support.
- B3N3, on 04/06/2008, -0/+20I'd be willing to sacrifice the telecoms for the sake of the economy. I'll miss calling customer service and being put on hold and transferred for three hours because they've charged me late charges even though I have automatic bill paying, but I suppose everyone has to do their part...
- Ravatar, on 04/06/2008, -0/+19It can also intelligently route calls to other PBXs depending on trunk utilization, and handle voicemail and outbound call center features. Asterisk just plain rocks.
- localzuk, on 04/06/2008, -1/+19We, a 600 pupil school in the UK, did just this. To install a cisco system or avaya system that does the job would have cost £40,000 or more. Instead, I installed an asterisk server running on ubuntu with grandstream handsets. The total cost: £5,000. And that includes a spare server to be swapped in should the first one ever fail. Adding another user costs £0. That is an initial saving of 87.5% and an ongoing saving every time we expand.
True, it has a few bugs occasionally but no modern system is without bugs. - JasonCox, on 04/06/2008, -5/+23Is anyone else seeing italicized comments?
- Uranium118, on 04/06/2008, -4/+21Dey Tuk R Jarbs!
- Ravatar, on 04/06/2008, -0/+17You realize comcast has nothing to gain or lose from this. Asterisk typically runs on T1/E1 voice channels...
- Ravatar, on 04/06/2008, -0/+17You've got no idea what you're talking about. Asterisk is a PBX that utilizes your existing T1/SIP/POTS/whatever data/voice provider to connect to your existing hardphone or softphone systems.
- purzzzell, on 04/06/2008, -0/+15actually, this will HELP telecoms - T1's are expensive - this isn't running over your plain old analog phone line, so instead of having 4 analog lines ($100+/- per month) come in, the businesses will be buying a $400-500 T1.
This hurts the PBX manufacturers. - theWrkncacnter, on 04/06/2008, -0/+15I tried to uncheck your profile pic, haha! I agree with you, dugg.
- Nitrodist88, on 04/06/2008, -0/+14They took our jobs.
- offspring06, on 04/06/2008, -7/+21Who gives a *****? Is there some kind of competition that I'm not aware of?
- titlesaysitall, on 04/06/2008, -4/+18I'm making a footnote: EPIC FAIL
- barc0001, on 04/07/2008, -1/+14I see by that comment that you've never had the "pleasure" of dealing with a Tier 1 PBX vendor when the ***** hits the fan. Believe me, paying 200 grand for a switch and handsets across the entire company is no insulation from a *****. Their support techs will be there within a couple of hours on-site (or probably just remotely these days with the more advanced RA tools) to go through the switch and insist it's not their equipment that's at fault, but rather your PRI provider's. And the PRI provider will say the same thing. And then eventually your tier 1 PBX vendor will find there actually was a problem with their PRI interface. But that's hours later and they didn't want to send their specialist who eventually found it out to your location at first because they only have 1 of him for a territory that should have at least 5.
On the other hand, for a FRACTION of the cost of a new proprietary PBX, you can set up 2 Asterisk boxes,1 as a full-on hot spare, same hardware, same everything, just idling and mirroring. And that way when something does go wonky in the hardware, you can just cut over to the other box in seconds, saving hours of screwing around. Not to mention your logging is far more informative and doesn't need a 20 hour course from Big PBX Vendor to properly interpret. - 298th_Scat, on 04/06/2008, -0/+13digium has fantastic support so do many good trunk providers.. I have had many occasions where the party will just login and un-chuck our problem.. I have worked with the regular phone companies before.. We went from $3,000 a month to $50.00 a month for that price we can pay for equipment redundancy..
Phone companies can suck it. At one point we were paying verizon 1,500 a month for a ISDN line.. that charged 8 cents on a redial attempt. - rabidg00se, on 04/06/2008, -6/+182006, guys. I think it may have missed its window.
- godfly, on 04/06/2008, -0/+12Dey took yerr jab!!
- staticnetwork, on 04/06/2008, -0/+11I work in this industry and what I see is that there are many Asterisk based PBX system that use the Asterisk as a base and make a wrapper on it and call it their own product to sell, like "Absolute IP", but they are dropping out of the industry. I have people calling in all the time because they bought an Asterisk based system and the kid that "managed it" moved out of town, and they are having issues. Most of these kids that know about this linux based phone system don't know enough about traditional PBX and Telco technologies in order to support them. As far as the cost, you still need to buy SIP phones and a server to run this. Most of the newer phone VoIP systems support SIP extensions and SIP trunks. Also, newer VoIP systems are just as easy to manage with their web based admin tools. Cisco VoIP systems are over priced junk, and the only reason they sell is because IT person John wants to gain knowledge of "Cisco" to further his career.
- malloyoy, on 04/06/2008, -0/+10It's been happening on and off for weeks now. At least for me.
- purzzzell, on 04/06/2008, -0/+10isn't a PRI a type of T1?
- ChayD, on 04/06/2008, -0/+9Breaking: Microsoft release Windows Vista
- rayefrenzy, on 04/06/2008, -1/+10damn, the title is misleading
here i was thinking some rogue programmer used his l33t skillz to destroy a former employer who refused to give him a dental plan.
i want my money back ; ; - zorabthegreek, on 04/06/2008, -2/+10Dugg down only because its a forbes.com link where they have the cheek to show you an ad and call it a welcome screen. Why do I want to wait for 30secs after clicking on a link? None of the major news orgs have this kind of shameful ad promotion. Boycott forbes.com
- screwfanboys1, on 04/06/2008, -4/+12yes.
- banmaster, on 04/06/2008, -2/+10Not 'should' something goes wrong. 'WHEN' something goes wrong.
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -1/+9Also In the specialized Asterisk instalation I did, A single year of support for the legacy Nortel key system, was more expensive than simply replacing every phone on premisis with sip phones.
- followerOChrist, on 04/06/2008, -1/+9woo hoo free stuff!
- repick3, on 04/07/2008, -2/+9DERKA DUUURRR
- norcalscan, on 04/06/2008, -0/+7And it can talk to basically any SIP phone. Unlike Avaya or Cisco, who like their own phones. Sure, they MIGHT connect to another SIP phone, but you're still paying for that extension annually in a support contract, and the voicemail light might not work, and your phone might not ring, because that's how those companies roll.
- wibambau, on 04/06/2008, -2/+9* > *.*
- Muncher, on 04/07/2008, -0/+7We encourage businesses to "cut costs" simply by buying only what we can afford. It's a natural process in a free market.
- CanadaMan87, on 04/07/2008, -0/+6What's wrong with "Spencer"?
:P - VenTatsu, on 04/06/2008, -1/+7Asterisk also supports termination to POTS or over the internet using SIP. That means you can use Asterisk without ever letting your phone provider know, or you can use a much cheaper internet phone company.
- nohoy, on 04/07/2008, -0/+6Back to the pile!
- gambit2121, on 04/07/2008, -0/+6durdukrrjubs!
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