Asterisk Gets a Facelift

Everybody’s favorite open source telephony system has gotten a new look. Earlier today Asterisk GUI 2.0 was released for Asterisk and it looks great.

Take a look for yourself here.

Asterisk has been dogged in the past by many for not having a better GUI for those who are not interested in using command line to configure the platform. To their credit Digium has made tremendous strides in this area and continues to improve (as this release proves).

I wonder if they are putting those SwitchVox folks to work on the Asterisk GUI?

The Fastest Growing Companies in VoIP

Last week Inc magazine released the Inc 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in the US. It was no surprised that many prominent VoIP companies made the list, given the explosion the industry has experienced over the last few years. After reading through the list, I realized that there were a lot of companies that I had never heard of who are doing very well selling VoIP so I decided to compile a quick list of companies on the rise in the VoIP industry based on the Inc 5,000 rankings.

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Fonolo Launches API, Here’s Something Cool to Build

I have been getting a ton of API related press releases the last two months. So many that at one point I contemplated why Smith On VoIP did not have an API. I mean, if everyone is doing it, why not me?

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Skype and Google Sharing Customer Data to Sell Targeted Ads?

I got an interesting piece of mail from the folks at Google today. It was an offer for $250 worth of Google Adwords. While this isn’t the first time I have gotten a mailer like this, what struck me as odd is that the company name on the mailing address was “SIP TO THE SKYPE NETWORK” a company I have zero affiliation with, but whose offering is, to say the least, “very targeted” to someone in my industry and profession. (See image below).

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VoIP Supply Named to CRN 100

My employer and leading VoIP solutions provider, VoIP Supply, has been named to the Everything Channel CRN 100 list of fastest growing IT solutions providers in the US.

While we have been racking up growth awards over the past few years, this announcement is especially rewarding as it highlights our ability to deliver multi-vendor IT solutions, cutting-edge technologies, close customer relationships, demonstrate strong sales philosophies and business-oriented IT consulting. Since our inception in 2004, many have been confused as to who VoIP Supply is and what it is that we actually do.

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Greg Royal is Right

Over a month ago, Greg Royal wrote that although it seems nothing is going on in the VoIP space, there is a ton of behind the scene things taking place. While I can’t name specifics at this time, I can say that over the last few weeks I have be privy to some very exciting developments in the hosted VoIP market, SIP trunking, mobile VoIP and small business phone system space that have the ability to put each of these market sectors on their head.

While the last few months have been less than exciting, expect that to change over the next six months.

Astricon Keynote Speakers List Announced

If you are interested in the open source telephony space, then Astricon is the place to be this September 23rd through the 25th.

Astricon is the world’s largest and most informative gathering of expert developers and users of the popular Asterisk telephony platform. The company expects that Astricon ’08 will be the best Astricon yet, with the expansion of the conference tracks to five, with more than 60 topics to offer attendees more variety and options during the two-day event. The tracks will include business, technical/introductory, carrier/large scale, and two advanced technical tracks.

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