The author is assistant chief engineer of Radio One Dallas. For years, Radio One Dallas had a Nortel phone system that seemingly required a service call for anything beyond switching out a handset ...

If you’re like most folk, setting up a PBX is something you’d rather avoid, especially when its an open source PBX that isn’t known for its easy configuration and installation. ISPBX aims to solve the ...

This article describes how to build an embedded Asterisk IP-PBX with four analog (FXO or FXS) ports. Total parts cost is about $500 US, which is competitive with PC/PCI-card based Asterisk solutions.

Voice over Internet protocol and public branch exchange systems -- VoIP and PBX, respectively -- are two ways of achieving the same end goal: to make and receive phone calls. Traditional PBX systems ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has been key in allowing individuals and organizations to make and manage audio and video calls using the Internet. Call center companies, businesses, ...

To understand the challenges in building an embedded IP-PBX we first needto take a look at a typical PC-based x86 Asterisk PBX. Figure 1: Block diagram of a typical PC based Asterisk PBX. In this case ...

At long last, VoIP (voice over IP) is worth considering for real business use, thanks to two factors. The first is the ubiquity of Ethernet. It’s the rare business indeed that isn’t already wired with ...

Microsoft Response Point is a VoIP PBX solution targeted at the small to medium business market. Originally released in the USA in 2007, it has just been launched into the New Zealand market by D-Link ...

We tested products from four vendors and found that in some areas – configuration, for example – the tools were adequate across the board (for details on the IP PBX configurations submitted and ...