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Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Friday, January 17, 2025

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We’re two weeks late, but here’s a belated Happy New Year 2025 with an all-new Incredible PBX release. And we’re two days early celebrating the 20th birthday of Nerd Vittles. The good news is the hits keep coming thanks again to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka @kenn10. The new Incredible PBX 2025 offering incorporates the latest releases of Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Better yet, it offers a choice of Linux platforms including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and… Read More ›

Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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In case you missed it, Broadcom purchased VMware® from Dell in late 2023 for $61 billion. While pricing for commercial licenses went up, the good news for hobbyists is that Broadcom immediately rebranded VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for Macs as free offerings for personal use. While open source virtual machine platforms have dominated the marketplace over the past few years, if you fall into the personal use group, then this is a deal you can’t refuse. That’s not… Read More ›

Introducing OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX 16 & Incredible PBX 2027

Introducing OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX 16 & Incredible PBX 2027

Thursday, February 1, 2024

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If you’ve been searching for a free, open source provisioning system for your SIP telephones and you’re using Incredible PBX 2027 or other FreePBX® 16 platforms, your prayers have been answered thanks to the hard work of Bill Simon. What this buys you (for free) is a quick way to configure SIP devices from most of the major players shown above including Aastra, AudioCodes, Cisco, Linksys, CloudTC, Digium, Grandstream, Intelbras, Mitel, Norphonic, Patton, Polycom, Snom, Thomson, Unidata, Xorcom, and Yealink.… Read More ›

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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For those with an existing virtual machine platform either at home or at the office, today is your lucky day. We have an Incredible PBX image for VirtualBox, VMware, Proxmox, Windows WSL, Mac UTM, and Linux Containers LXC that will have an Asterisk® PBX with FreePBX® up and running in less than 5 minutes. If you’ve ever wanted to kick the tires on a fully-loaded, secure PBX that offers virtually every telephony feature on the planet, now’s your chance. And… Read More ›

A Cloud-Based Asterisk PBX: 0 to $5/Mo.

A Cloud-Based Asterisk PBX: 0 to $5/Mo.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

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In our last post, we catalogued the various ways to deploy an Asterisk® PBX using existing Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop hardware. But that solution isn’t ideal for everyone especially if you’re looking for a cloud-based platform that provides redundancy and backups. So today we’ll introduce some cloud platform Asterisk solutions, at least one of which can be deployed in under five minutes. Let’s begin with our personal favorite, CrownCloud. For $25 a year, you get a 5-minute install from… Read More ›

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Sunday, December 31, 2023

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To say the New Year is ushering in a scaled back constituency for self-managed telephony systems would be an understatement. Much of this migration from Asterisk® can be traced directly to the proliferation of cell phones coupled with the expansion of Zoom and Microsoft Teams deployments thanks to the COVID nightmare. Despite Sangoma’s best efforts to commercialize Asterisk and FreePBX®, we think there’s still a place for free systems especially turnkey Asterisk PBX deployments that can coexist on Windows, Mac,… Read More ›

VoIP Messaging and The Golden Rule with Incredible PBX

VoIP Messaging and The Golden Rule with Incredible PBX

Monday, November 6, 2023

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If you want to continue to use SMS and MMS messaging on your VoIP platform, then today’s navigation guide is worth a careful read. Suffice it to say, this is what happens when the feds shirk their responsibilities and leave it to the foxes to guard the chicken coop. The Golden Rule with all oligopolies is that he who has the gold makes the rules. And, make no mistake, there are stringent new rules for VoIP messaging. Not surprisingly, the… Read More ›

Incredible ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence For Your Phone

Incredible ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence For Your Phone

Friday, October 20, 2023

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Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you already know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. The reasons are fairly obvious. AI can process and analyze massive amounts of data in seconds that humans could spend months and years collecting. AI is being used to develop new drugs and treatments, diagnose diseases, and provide personalized care to patients. It’s being used to develop self-driving cars and trucks, optimize traffic flows, and improve… Read More ›