Digium’s Asterisk is listed as a Visionary alongside Microsoft in it’s magic quadrant for office telephony survey. Soon, Asterisk will be in the leaders quadrant.
Asterisk is the best PBX, hands down and we, are just the champions for implementing, supporting and maintaining it.
 
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If you think there’s not enough softphones out there that can work with Asterisk? Think again, here’s 39 for you to choose from:
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DIAX
E-Phone
Ekiga
Empathy
Firefly
FlaPhone
IAX Telefon
Jabbin
JackenIAX
JIAX
KCall
KIAX
KPhone
LinPhone
MiniPax
MiniSIP
MizuPhone
MozillaVoIP
Mumble
NimBuzz
OfficeSIP
PhonerLite
QuteCom
SFLPhone
SightSpeed AKA Logitech Vid
SJphone
SIP Communicator
Team Speak
Telephone
TPad
Twinkle
VBuzzer
Ventrilo
Voix Phone
WXCommunicator
X-Lite
YakaPhone
ZFone
Zoiper

We had a client whereby the phones date & time was wrong as it can’t connect to an ntp server and they don’t have a local ntp server onsite. They don’t allow the phones to out to the internet and pull the information.
So we decided to install an ntp server on the Asterisk box itself. [...]

We were deploying a solution for our customer which deploy pfSense as a VPN gateway and firewall to a little under 300 outlets in Malaysia.
Each outlet has a unique “storeID” which is then required to run OpenVPN daemon at the background and fires a connection whenever a layer 2 link is established.
To create under 300 [...]

We have successfully flash the Cisco 7941 to SIP. Now we need to create an XML files to work with Cisco 7941 SIP phones. First of all, we need to create SEP<MACADDRESS>.cnf.xml file. In our environment, we successfully connected the Cisco 7941 to Asterisk on Debian and FreePBX.
Below is a working sample of SEP<MACADDRESS>.cnf.xml [...]