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I am extremely proud to be able to point out that Digium has acquired Switchvox.
Switchvox is an amazing packaged PBX system that is based on Asterisk. A team from Digium did an extensive analysis of the products available in this area, and concluded that the Switchvox package was superior in terms of features as [...]

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The process of developing, releasing, and maintaining Asterisk 1.4 has certainly been a learning experience. I have been putting a lot of thought into the things that we have been dealing with and would like to propose some changes to the way that we manage releases.
Over the past few years we have gone from [...]

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One of the areas that I am very interested in right now is coming up with new ways to distribute Asterisk services across multiple servers, both locally with Asterisk clustering, or distributed with servers across the internet. Off and on this year I have been working on an event system. I want to [...]

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Astricon is coming up very soon, so I figured I would point out some of the things that the development team will be doing at the conference.
There are two big pre-conference activities for Tuesday, September 25th.

Asterisk 101 - An introduction to Asterisk
Developer 101 - An introduction to Asterisk development

Myself, and a number of other [...]

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There is a new Asterisk API in town, and it is called Audiohooks. It was developed by Joshua Colp, a fellow Asterisk developer and friend. As you may have inferred from the name, the audiohooks API lets you add hooks into the audio passing through an Asterisk channel. There are a lot [...]

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