Asterisk teams with IBM for small business VoIP.Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Small businesses can buy open source IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. Asterisk software as an add-on to IBM's Smart Cube office-in-a-box package. <p>Burning questions about Asterisk open source PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). platform<p>Digium, which sells a commercial version of Asterisk, customized it to integrate with Smart Cube's software, making the phone system manageable via Smart Cube's management interface. <p>Customers buy the Asterisk application from IBM's Smart Market, and rely on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) for support. Digium support staff is on call to IBM for tier 2 support, but customers only have to deal with IBM. <p>The PBX software Pbx software Pbx software is an Australian multinational computer technology corporation with employees in three countries. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. is sold in two sizes, for 20 concurrent calls ($2,000) and for 40 concurrent calls ($4,000).<p>Smart Cube is sold as a hardware platform with a base set of applications on it and a second set of applications available for customers to buy via Smart Market to address their specific business needs. <p>The Asterisk software can be configure and managed via IBM's Smart Desk management dashboard, which gives a common look to management of all the Smart Market applications. <p>The Digium-Asterisk alliance was announced at the 10th anniversary of AstriCon, the annual conference for Asterisk customers, developers and business partners. Attendance was up 10% over last year, and participation in the trade show part of the conference was up 50%, says Danny Windham, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Digium. <p>Also at the show, Digium previewed Asterisk Marketplace, a site where customers can buy applications to expand the use of Asterisk PBXs. It also announced Asterisk Forge, a site where developers can start, run and maintain Asterisk software projects. <p>Copyright 2009 IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) Middle East. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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