Comments on: Digium Expands Partner Program With New Level

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:39:29 +0000

Lawrence: Well said.

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:04:29 +0000

Think of Asterisk as a telephony engine. You can build applications on top of it, anything from easy-to-use PBX appliances to custom applications. You can route calls between analog lines, ISDN, SIP and other transports. You can run custom programs as part of the process of sending or receiving a call. You can run custom programs that make calls and monitor calls.

There’s a lot you can do with it.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:34:28 +0000

JPLC: And let’s not forget about the SwitchVox hardware/software solution…

By: JPLC

JPLC — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:42:31 +0000

Digium is both. They have hardware that run on Asterisk as well as hardware cards that interface with Asterisk servers. Like any program, Asterisk has a command line interface that is accessible to server administrators and developers but over the years Asterisk has spawned a few GUI frontends that you can simply access to configure as needed.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:10:26 +0000

Is Digium software, hardware or both? I get the impression that Asterisk is a command-line system and not really a “product” that a company like ours can work with.

We’re a 15 year old consulting firm in Buffalo that has experience with voip and switched network environments. We never really dealt with telephony applications but our customers are starting to ask about small business phone systems.

Rather than contact Digium and receive a ton of marketing I figured I’d ask a few questions here.