VoIP News: Asterisk in Action

“VOIP News: Why would businesses chose Asterisk
over a proprietary technology?

“Chad Agate: Cost and flexibility. Customers
don’t like the idea of being locked into anything. Especially when
they’re talking about their telephone system and they’ve been so
used to their phone systems being a black box. It just kind of
hangs out there and operates and does whatever it does. As more
applications are coming onto the network, and those applications
are being integrated with voice, they’re looking to have more
control over that. And I see open source as a viable way to do
that…”

Complete
Story