Shenzhen, China –OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd, a global leading provider of the most advanced open source Asterisk® telephony hardware and software products, has announced today that a new generation standard 19” 1U Asterisk-based IPPBX—IX120, with powerful and flexible in both hardware and software design, is now available to the open source community. The IX120 delivers one-stop cost-effective solutions enhanced in system performance and stability to SMBs, at an affordable price.

The IX120 can be equipped with up to 16 analog FXO/FXS ports, up to 16 ISDN BRI ports, or 1 E1/T1/J1 PRI port. With the two available PCI slots, it supports various combinations of telephony interfaces. This new appliance takes full advantages of Intel® original motherboard and supports up to 200 concurrent calls (SIP) in a 1U box with superior voice quality in the meantime.

“We’ve seen tremendous requirements for complete telephony solutions in small and medium business market and we are proud to bring such a powerful 1U IPPBX into our open source community and the market.” said Lin Miao, the president of OpenVox, “By choosing the IX120 IPPBX, there are no more troubles on selecting related hardware to build the system. And this new appliance enables our channel partners to easily provide cost-effective and professional solutions to their clients.”

To meet different needs on the PBX software, the IX120 provides options with two kinds of software. One is open source software including Elastix®, PBX in a FlashTM, trixbox®, etc. and the other is commercial one with Thirdlane PBX to go with extensions. Any of the above software can be pre-loaded as you required before delivery to ensure you will have a working appliance when you receive it.

The IX120 IPPBX equipped with Intel® Atom® single/dual core processors up to 1.8 GHz. The system can be equipped with up to 4 GB ram. The 2 SATA connections provide sufficient storage to meet the demands of any operating systems and applications. In addition, with the OpenVox internal PCI Raiser card, it extends 2 available PCI slots for telephony interface cards.

OpenVox and the OpenVox logo are the registered trademarks of OpenVox Communication Co Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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OpenVox partners to provide Humbug’s Fraud Analytics, Detection and Prevention services to purchasers of OpenVox’s PCI Cards.

Ramat HaSharon, Israel and Shenzhen, China – Humbug Telecom Labs, provider of carrier-class fraud prevention, detection and telecom analytics, and OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd, a leading provider of the most advanced open source Asterisk® telephony hardware and software products, have announced that they have teamed up to help prevent Telecom Fraud for OpenVox customers.

“By partnering with a successful company like OpenVox, Humbug will be able to bring Telecom Fraud prevention to new markets,” says Yaniv Rofé, CEO at Humbug Telecom Labs. He continues, “The partnership with OpenVox enables Humbug to prevent Telecom Fraud the day that the card is installed – mitigating the risk substantially and protecting the company that owns the PBX.”

“The cooperation with Humbug allows OpenVox to bring additional cloud service to our customers,” said Lin Miao, the CEO of OpenVox. “We believe that our partnership will surely bring us success in serving the open source telecommunication community, and we are honored to be the first Asterisk® hardware manufacturer authorized by Humbug.”

About Humbug Telecom Labs
Humbug Telecom Labs makes it affordable for any sized business to access carrier-class fraud prevention and detection tools, and simultaneously gain powerful business intelligence, which puts users in command of their telecom activity. Humbug offers free telecom analytics to view telecom traffic in a real time, concise, readable Google Analytics-type format. No PBX report comes close. Customizable real time alerts can be configured by the user to track telecom traffic behavior and keep track of spending. Humbug is ideal for call centers, ITSPs (Internet Telephony Service Providers), organizations that sell by phone, businesses with significant telecom expenditures and any responsible organization cognizant of the global fraud epidemic. Humbug easily integrates with a host of popular open source and proprietary PBX systems.

About OpenVox
Founded in 2002, OpenVox has now evolved to become a global leading provider of open source telephony hardware and software products. OpenVox serves the Small and Medium Business and open source market with superior quality products that lower communication costs, increased system flexibility and enhanced productivity in building PBX, Call Center, IVR and firewall applications. OpenVox continues to deliver innovative and cost effective solutions to the open source community and will always do.

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Thanks for Anton Raharja’s updates about this new release of Briker, a very popular asterisk-based PBX software in Indonesia. It’s been a lot of main changes from the previous version. It includes the latest release are LTS (Long Term Support) version of Asterisk (currently using Asterisk 1.8.7.1), recent Digium hardware driver DAHDI version 2.5.0.1, recent Sangoma wanpipe driver, latest OpenVox patches and other recent release of supporting tools and applications.

Briker IPPBX version 1.4 is based on CentOS 6.0 for i386, its different from previous version which was based on Ubuntu Server 9.04. The reason to switch to CentOS is simply because CentOS is easier to be modified to suit our needs.

Below are changes made and incorporated in Briker 1.4:

*[pbx] upgrade to Asterisk 1.8.7.1
*[pbx] upgrade Sangoma driver for PRI and TDM to wanpipe 3.5.23
*[pbx] upgrade device drivers and to use DAHDI 2.5.0.1
*[pbx] upgrade dahdi driver to use OpenVox cards A810, A1610 & A2410
*[pbx] upgrade deprecated dialplan commands
*[pbx] upgrade web fax system to Briker Fax Management v1.0
*[pbx] upgrade fax system to support fax status, sender name and station ID
*[pbx] fix User Portal, simplify menus
*[pbx] fix outboundcid does not have any effect
*[pbx] fix CDR, accurate recording data
*[pbx] fix Xorcom autoconfiguration setup
*[pbx] fix briker-sangoma-on and off script
*[pbx] fix briker-xpp-on and off script
*[pbx] fix delayed/slow apply configuration from web
*[pbx] fix and enhance callback module
*[pbx] fix to catch on-demand recording in User Portal
*[pbx] fix paging for several additional phones like Yealink and Brikertel
*[pbx] fix paging for Grandstream Video Phone (GXV3140, GXV3175)
*[pbx] fix phpagi, rename goto() to briker_goto()
*[pbx] fix User Portal, remove modules from administrator, update main.conf
*[pbx] fix Backup & Restore, add global database configuration
*[pbx] fix xpp briker, load driver for channel bank
*[pbx] add STUN to get externip from STUN server configured on briker.conf
*[pbx] add autoprovision support for AT620 and probably other ATCOM’s phones
*[pbx] add Phone Keylock, secure your phone with a PIN (*50 and *51)
*[pbx] add PIN Lock, users can use other phone to call using own account (*56)
*[pbx] add Google Talk (jingle) support
*[pbx[ add chan_h323.so in addition to chan_ooh323.so for better H.323 supports
*[pbx] add chan_skinny.so to support Cisco SCCP
*[pbx] add chan_mgcp.so to support MGCP
*[pbx] modify Sangoma related scripts to automate driver installation
*[pbx] modify Briker to use .WAV (format wav49) for call monitor and voicemail
*[pbx] modify Briker Core to enable plugin addition
*[pbx] rename briker-getlinein to getlinein-briker, tools to provide a PA system
*[pbx] harden security to pass extensive tests from a web pentest software
*[lin] move all briker command to /usr/local/sbin
*[lin] add OpenVPN for easy remote maintenance and secure VoIP connection
*[lin] add PPTP VPN server and client for easy remote VoIP connection
*[lin] add Firewall configuration menu on Server Manager, includes NAT setup
*[lin] add dynamic DNS service dyndns.org updater, configured from briker.conf
*[lin] replace standard malloc() with The Hoard Memory Allocator 3.8
*[lin] upgrade Webmin to version 1.560
*[lin] add more modules in Webmin to support IPPBX services
*[lin] change Webmin port to 10002
*[lin] change SSH port to 10001
*[lin] switch base Linux distribution to CentOS 6.0 for i386

The lastest version of Briker 1.4 can be downloaded HERE.

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It looks like that digium has accelerated the speed of releasing new hardware products to the open source community. It’s only been less than one month since digium last released the Octal-Span Digital Card-TE820 while the new redundancy appliances are launched these days. I would be interested in the next release of the new products. (Will it be gateway products?) Who will be the third board company to add gateway products after sangoma and pika? Let’s wait and see.

Well, let’s first take a look at digium’s redundance applainces. Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, has released its family of Redundancy appliances (R-Series). Using these inexpensive, flexible products, administrators of Asterisk-based communications systems can build fully redundant solutions that allow continued communications in the event of a software or hardware failure. The R-Series products used in conjunction with Asterisk, the open source telephony platform used by millions of businesses worldwide, will ensure communications resiliency in the most demanding environments.

R-Series appliances allow physical-layer failover of digital (T1, E1, PRI or BRI) or analog telephone connections to Asterisk systems. If the primary server fails, the R-Series device will move all telecommunications services to the backup server. The product integrates with software that mirrors configuration data between the primary and backup systems, monitors system health and, in the event of an outage on the primary, transitions all operations to the backup system . Communication between the Asterisk servers and the R-Series product is accomplished via USB connections. The USB links also power the R-Series device, saving energy and eliminating a potential point of failure.

Steve Sokol, director of Asterisk marketing at Digium, commented: “Asterisk’s remarkable success as a platform for creating custom communications solutions stems from its power, flexibility and cost effectiveness. Businesses can design and implement the solutions they need without concern for cost. As Asterisk has continued to grow in popularity, customers and integrators have asked for a product that allows them to create high-availability solutions that stand up even in the face of catastrophic hardware or software failures. The R-Series family fills that need and does so at a price point that makes working with Asterisk even more appealing.”

Two R-Series models are available, the R800 and the R850. The R800 supports up to eight analog (POTS) circuits while the R850 handles up to eight digital (T1, E1, PRI or BRI) spans. Both are 1U rack mount devices. Pricing begins at $995 USD. For additional technical details, please visit http://www.digium.com, The R-Series appliances are available immediately from Digium and its worldwide network of partners.

About Digium

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. More information is available at http://www.digium.com.

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk SCF, Switchvox, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. 

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TORONTO, ONTARIO–Sangoma, a leading provider of hardware and software components that enable or enhance IP Communications Systems for both voice and data, today announced the launch of the Vega suite of gateway products from Sangoma.

The Vega suite of VoIP gateways offers an extensive range of interconnectivity between PSTN and IP networks, in a high performance custom designed appliance, at industry leading price points. The Vega suite from Sangoma consists of three product lines: the Vega 50 line for low density analog or BRI connectivity, the Vega 400 line for high density digital interfaces with multiple T1s or E1s, and the Vega 5000 line for high density analog connectivity up to 50 FXS ports.

“This launch marks the end of three months of intense work by our engineering, product management, support, operations, and sales organizations in Canada, the US, UK and India to bring this exciting new suite of products to general availability,” said Bill Wignall, president and CEO of Sangoma. “This milestone also signals the completion of integration of the former VegaStream people and operations into the Sangoma family and we are very pleased with how smoothly this acquisition has been handled by teams on both sides of the ocean.”

Sangoma provides an industry leading portfolio of TDM to IP telephony interface boards for use inside servers. While the company intends to continue dominating that market, gateway appliances (which provide much of the same functionality as Sangoma board products, but reside outside the server) are becoming increasingly popular. Sangoma can now offer its customers both options.

Wignall continued, “General availability of the Vega portfolio is just one more step in Sangoma’s evolution as a company. We are reinventing ourselves to become a substantial player in more segments of the IP communications market. That strategy includes significantly broadening our product portfolio to deliver more value to our customers and partners and meet more of their product needs. Sangoma is now committed to delivering 5 to 10 new products per year, well up from the historical average of one new release annually. We launched our multiplexer line last quarter with more multiplexers to follow shortly. We’ve already announced our Microsoft Lync certified gateway this quarter. We are now releasing the Vega suite of gateways and we have two additional major product releases scheduled by the middle of next quarter. At Sangoma, we’re not just a board company anymore!”

“We know via clear feedback from customers and distributors that they are extremely excited about the launch of our suite of Vega gateway appliances,” said Doug Vilim, vice president of sales at Sangoma. “This is a market they have wanted to see Sangoma participate in for some time. We are experiencing good demand from our channel and from our OEM customers. I think other gateway suppliers had better watch out!”

Sangoma has invested significant time and effort in operations and manufacturing leading up to this launch and the company is now accepting orders for its Vega products and shipping in volume around the globe.

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