For those of you not yet really familiar with Asterisk or like me who wants to have the appropriate book to refer each time it is necessary, the second edition of “The Future of Telephony” is now available. If you could only buy one book on the Asterisk topic, this one is probably the best choice, a must read prior any installation or IP telephony project.
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We have talked some weeks ago about the new Asterisk site called AstPligg (in our French edition), where people can share and vote on Asterisk related article. Back from vacation, we were surprised by the fact one of our article was on Astpligg. The article is about Asterisk redundancy with a very straightforward approach: “Asterisk redundancy, a very simple approach” (also available in French).

Thanks a lot to Astpligg readers who have voted this article (gamma, ragno, lenz, pedroso), we consider this as a good point and this gives us energy to continue our adventure of providing our readers with information and tips on voice over IP and the Asterisk solution.

News

Next generation cell phones would implement Wi-Fi

From the In-Stat study named Worldwide Demand for Wi-Fi/Cellular Combo Phones, half of responders would like Wi-Fi support on their next cell phone. This could push vendors and operators to implement this feature in order to allow SIP connection to in-house PBX in addition to the global cell network.
Via VoIP Monitor.

Products

PC Express cards available at Digium

Digium proposes now voice card for the PCI Express bus. No real innovation on these cards but we now have a solution for the new servers that lack from PCI standard bus slots. New cards are for E1/T1/J1 only, TE220 and TE420, respectively including 2 and 4 ports.

Sangoma releases new BRI card for Europe market

Sangoma has annonced, on June the 11^th 2007 the availability of its A500 BRI card for European market. Available for Windows and Linux, this BRI interface can either work in NT or TE mode, just by changing the module connection. This card is composed of three different modules, the PCI interface, a daughter card with interfaces and the expansion modules for BRI and echo canceller. If more than 3 ports are required, multiple cards can be plugged together on different PCI slots by adding a back-plane, up to 12 ports for 24 communications.

Events

Asterisk and VoIP - Brussel, October 9^th and 10^th 2007

Brussel will host an Asterisk conference, organised by Profoss, with Kevin P. Flemming as a speaker.

VON Fall - Boston, October 29^th to November the 1^st 2007

Big voice and video show with all major providers and manufacturers, more information at VON.

New name and new hosting service.

The load on our server was a bit high and our Internet bandwidth too low for the increasing traffic on this site. Thus we decided to move it to a new hosting service and also use a new name and Internet domain. This is the occasion to introduce you Panoramisk, druid of the village where Asterisk, Obelisk and Idefisk are living.

The old server will still remain alive to redirect some hits during the migration process. We hope you will still envoy our new service and thank you again for visiting us.