With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

A key piece of the popular open source communication software gets an update. Making major changes to core functionality in an existing software project can be daunting. Making those changes in a ...

I’ve had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...

For all the technology behind Voice over IP (VoIP), you'd expect that it would work on every network, but this unfortunately isn't the case. Network Address Translation (NAT) is a common practice used ...

Last month, I wrote about a system for handling telephone calls with Asterisk that automatically handled the call depending on the time of day at a remote location. Use of the system, however, ...

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south ...