The province of Namur is switching to a Voice over IP solution based on Asterisk. The solution is provided by Escaux, which was present at the Profoss Asterisk event in october.

3Com, which is going private in a $2.2 billion deal, announced that it will offer Digium's Asterisk Appliance targetted to the SMB market.

As a confirmation of Kevin P. Fleming's statement that Digium was moving to become a solutions provider, Digium announced the acquisition of Switchvox. Switchvox develops an "easy to set up PBX system, customizable for your business".

The plan seems to be to move functionality from Switchvox' product into the open source Asterisk.

Kevin P. Fleming, Asterisk co-maintainer, has been interviewed by Profoss in preparation to his participation to the event titled "Asterisk and VoIP". He talks about his role at Digium, the future of Asterisk, Digium's activities, etc. Go read it!

Other interviews published to day are: Carmelo Zaccone, technology watcher for the Walloon government, Jacques Gripekoven, Managing Director Eyepea, Gautier Hankenne, who deployed Asterisk at Eurofer.

Previously published interviews: Jordi Nelissen, Escaux co-founder, Raphaël Libois, Sales Engineer GenesysLab, and Vincent Luba, Novacom developer.

Asterisk, subject of the next Profoss event, has seen two new versions published, The 1.2.24 is the final in the 1.2 series, as it will only be updated with security fixes from now on. Version 1.4.10 contains security fixes. Both releases can be downloaded now.

Digium, the company behind Asterisk, subject of the next Profoss event, has announced a subscription based service offering. The service is available at three levels: Silver, Gold and Platinum, and is meant to give customers and partners faster, easier and unlimited access to Digium service and support.

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