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The Gotcha-Free PBX: Simon Telephonics New SIP Gateway for Google Voice

The Gotcha-Free PBX: Simon Telephonics New SIP Gateway for Google Voice

Monday, April 13, 2015

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We promised you that free Google Voice calling in the U.S. and Canada would soon be available on every Asterisk® platform whether the platform supported Asterisk Motif or not. And this week we’re covering the second SIP gateway offering for Google Voice. We introduced Bill Simon’s first Google Voice gateway back in June of 2012. This time around the latest iteration features secure OAUTH authentication so there’s no need to divulge your Google Voice credentials. Once you’ve set up your… Read More ›

The Two Amigos on Cloud 9: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix @ RentPBX

The Two Amigos on Cloud 9: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix @ RentPBX

Friday, March 27, 2015

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DEC. 7 NEWS FLASH: The Elastix project has been sold to 3CX. Elastix 4.0 and Elastix MT have been removed from production "due to a legal disagreement with another open source distribution." We continue the Gotcha-Free PBX adventure today with an open source alternative for which many have been clamoring, another affordable Cloud-based Asterisk® platform with the no-strings-attached Elastix 2.5 GUI. In addition to a $15 a month hosting plan, the icing on the cake is the quick 10-minute automated… Read More ›

The Gotcha-Free PBX: Harnessing SIP URIs for Free Worldwide Calling

The Gotcha-Free PBX: Harnessing SIP URIs for Free Worldwide Calling

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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View image | gettyimages.com We continue the Incredible PBX for Asterisk-GUI adventure today with a close look at SIP URIs, those email-like addresses that are the fundamental building blocks for VoIP technology. Consider this. If everyone in the world had a SIP address instead of a phone number, every call to every person in the world via the Internet would be free. That pretty much sums up why SIP URIs are important. The syntax for SIP URIs depends a bit… Read More ›

SOHO Delight: Introducing the Ultimate Asterisk Appliance for Under $30

SOHO Delight: Introducing the Ultimate Asterisk Appliance for Under $30

Saturday, March 14, 2015

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We continue our journey to identify cost-effective, Gotcha-Free Asterisk® solutions. And, yes, we eat our own dog food! So this week we turn our attention to a real sleeper. It’s an Asterisk appliance with an almost unbelievable price and an even more incredible feature set. With the PBX in a Flash™ and Incredible PBX™ projects, we meet hundreds of thousands of new VoIP enthusiasts each year. But let’s face it. Even software products as simple to use as ours present… Read More ›

The Two Amigos Ride Again: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix 2.5

The Two Amigos Ride Again: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix 2.5

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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DEC. 7 NEWS FLASH: The Elastix project has been sold to 3CX. Elastix 4.0 and Elastix MT have been removed from production "due to a legal disagreement with another open source distribution." We began our Elastix® adventure last week with the Bleeding Edge and our introduction of Incredible PBX for Elastix MT, the promising new multi-tenant edition of Elastix. Unfortunately, for production use, Elastix 3.0 is not quite there yet. So this week we’re introducing Incredible PBX™ for Elastix 2.5,… Read More ›

Meet the Two Amigos: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix MT

Meet the Two Amigos: Introducing Incredible PBX for Elastix MT

Monday, March 2, 2015

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DEC. 7 NEWS FLASH: The Elastix project has been sold to 3CX. Elastix 4.0 and Elastix MT have been removed from production "due to a legal disagreement with another open source distribution." Q: But wait. Aren’t Elastix® and PBX in a Flash™ competitors? What’s going on here? A: Think of us as Two Amigos! Edgar Landivar and his team have been fellow contributors to the Asterisk® open source community for as long as we have. They just happened to be… Read More ›

The Gotcha-Free PBX in the Cloud: Introducing Incredible PBX @ RentPBX.com

The Gotcha-Free PBX in the Cloud: Introducing Incredible PBX @ RentPBX.com

Monday, February 23, 2015

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We continue the Incredible PBX for Asterisk-GUI adventure today with an open source alternative for which many have been clamoring, an affordable Cloud-based Asterisk® platform with a no-strings-attached graphical user interface. As if the $15 a month hosting plan weren’t enough, the icing on the cake is the quick 2-minute setup on your choice of a dozen servers throughout the U.S. as well as Canada and Europe. If you can find the Enter key on a keyboard, then you can… Read More ›

Where to Begin: A Comparison of Open Source Features in Asterisk Aggregations

Where to Begin: A Comparison of Open Source Features in Asterisk Aggregations

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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[purehtml id=19] We receive frequent inquiries requesting that we document the feature set in the open source Asterisk® distributions that Nerd Vittles writes about each week. So today we’re pleased to provide a Feature Matrix that we will attempt to keep current as we move forward. Just bookmark this page, and you can check back periodically to get a quick thumbnail sketch of what each of these distributions currently supports.1 A chart, of course, doesn’t tell the whole story. But… Read More ›