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Telecommunications Coming soon: Asterisk in a box
Telecommunications Coming soon: Asterisk in a box | Coming soon: Asterisk in a box |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 13 September 2006 | |
  
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The appliance will be designed for small to medium businesses (2-50 users), and remote branch offices of larger organisations with a similar number of users per site and will feature the first Digium-developed Asterisk graphical user interface providing "simple, easy-to-use, basic configuration capabilities for open source developers to differentiate and customise their Asterisk-based solutions and applications." It will run a new "Embedded Business Edition," of the Asterisk software. The Appliance will also offer a hybrid solution alternative - a combination of VoIP applications using legacy telecom equipment - for enterprise customers who are not yet ready to migrate to a complete VoIP solution. "Today's communications offerings have fallen short for companies and sites with 2-50 users," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium and creator of Asterisk. "Traditional vendors lock-in users while lower-end solutions typically lack many features. At Digium, we are committed to developing products that will bring small to medium enterprises a feature-rich, cost-effective, reliable telephony solution." The developer kit includes an early pilot production of the Asterisk Appliance, the Asterisk GUI framework, 2-4 port FXS cards, 2-4 port FXO cards, multi-media add-on cards, 8 MB Flash, cables for all port types, an IP phone, a CD with all software, documentation and specifications, how-to manuals, Digium support details, and Asterisk memorabilia. It will be available directly from Digium in October for $US3,995.00. Production versions of the appliance will sell for under $US500, in volumes of 10,000.{moscomment} |
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