Recent Articles
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Ready to Roll Your Own?
The Asterisk ecosystem has improved significantly in 2006, with a wide range of tools, modules and utilities coming to light that improve the open-source PBX’s usability and manageability. Trixbox, previously known as Asterisk@Home, represents the ultimate Asterisk starter’s kit, bundling many of these applications and a full operating system with the underlying PBX software. While…
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Switchvox SMB Has Goods—and Gaps
One of several asterisk-based appliances now available, Four Loop Technologies’ Switchvox SMB provides a good overall IP telephony experience. However, potential customers should evaluate the long-term potential of the appliance, which is lacking in redundancy and the latest Linux components. The Switchvox SMB, which is priced starting at $2,495, is delivered on a desktop PC…
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Another Option: Virtual PBXes
Are you an IT manager at a small business who is looking to leverage VOIP benefits but doesn’t want to go through a wholesale hardware replacement? Do you also have geographically dispersed offices? And are you looking to put a more professional front on your company’s public telephone presence? Then you may want to look…
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D-Link Gear Is a Mixed Bag
D-Link has long provided affordable, relatively consumer-friendly network devices. That’s not necessarily the case with its new VOIP products aimed at the small-business market: The products can be confusing, and, when fully licensed, are not as inexpensive as they seem at first glance. Indeed, D-Link will rely on its network of resellers to promote, sell…
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Cheap VOIP Beckons for SMBs
Open-source telephony technologies have recently blown open the VOIP market, creating a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses. Indeed, with a vast number of choices, falling prices and improving applications, IT managers at small and midsize businesses may struggle to identify the right voice over IP solution…
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Microsoft Research Builds ‘BrowserShield’
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Researchers at the Redmond, Wash., company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow IE to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of…
