The Future of Open Source VoIP is Asterisk 1.6 | Linux Today

The Future of Open Source VoIP is Asterisk 1.6

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
May 2, 2007

“Asterisk hasn’t been around all that long, but it has become
the standard for open source VoIP PBX.

“In a keynote session at the Asterisk and Open Telephony
Conference here, Kevin Fleming, senior software engineer at Digium
and co-maintainer of Asterisk, told an overflow capacity crowd of
Asterisk lovers what the future holds for their beloved
project.

“With the 1.4 release now under his belt, as well as a new
Asterisk appliance effort called AsteriskNOW, Fleming is now
concentrating his efforts on the 1.6 release, which could be out by
the end of this year…”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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