VON: Two Asterisk Announcements
A couple of notable announcements from Digium yesterday:Â
- Digium announced Asterisk 1.4. Although it’s been announced at the show, it won’t actually be available until October. ISP-Planet has a great interview with Kevin Fleming.Â
- In another very interesting development, Digium also unveiled the Asterisk Appliance Development Kit. This little number is a uClinux embedded version of Asterisk targeted at small offices. According to New Telephony Magazine, the target price for these in quantity is below $500.Â
We’re starting to get a picture of where Digium will be going with their new investment dollars. In particular, the beefed up media capabilities in Asterisk 1.4, and the new programming language, sound very promising.
September 13th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
[...] The thing you see here is what Digium’s new Asterisk appliance will look like, news bite courtesy of Alec. Here’s the deets from Digium: [...]
September 20th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
One thing I don’t quite get, is Digium essentially is now competing with Fonality, whom has to be there number 1 buyer of line cards.
Fonality can market really well, they have a well conceived and executed channel strategy, Digium/Asterisk doesn’t appear to have that skill set, this could be an expensive lesson for them in channel and marketing.