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Digium Rolls Out Asterisk 1.8Oct 27, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, announced the release of Asterisk 1.8, an update to the software that developers, integrators, resellers and others around the world use to create customized, feature-rich and business phone systems. The Company said Asterisk 1.8 includes more than 200 enhancements, including new security features, integration with IPv6 and additions to ISDN-BRI functionality. Asterisk 1.8 is designated as a Long Term Support release, indicating four years of support from Digium. According to a release, technologists working with small and large businesses, government agencies and municipalities, call centers and carriers have downloaded Asterisk more than two million times over the past 12 months. It can be used to create nearly any type of phone system or voice application, with some of the uses being IP PBXs, voice gateways, voicemail, interactive voice response (IVR), conference bridges and automatic call distributors (ACD) for call centers. "Asterisk 1.8 is the first Long Term Support release since version 1.4," said Russell Bryant, Digium's lead Asterisk developer. "It includes hundreds of enhancements, many of which will help community members building large-scale solutions. The Asterisk community has, as always, been absolutely integral in the development of this major release. Now that it's available, we're rolling our development resources to work on the planned set of Asterisk 1.10 features." Stefan Wintermeyer, founder of AMOOMA GmbH, a German systems integrator specializing in Asterisk, contributor to Asterisk 1.8 and Digium partner, commented: "The new ISDN features in Asterisk 1.8 are a big step forward for the European Asterisk community. We've been waiting a long time and are pleased that Digium went the extra mile. Even without the ISDN enhancements, the pure performance jump in 1.8 is significant. We can save money on hardware because more calls can be handled by a single Asterisk installation." Digium noted that Asterisk 1.8 includes contributions from hundreds of community developers, as well as the Digium development team. Digium created, owns and is the force behind Asterisk, open source communications software. More information: www.digium.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |