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Welcome New, and Returning, Asterisk Users!

I’ve noticed a trend of people and companies looking at moving away from other projects towards Asterisk. For those returning to Asterisk after some time, ...
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ARI

What Really Is ARI?

A recurring theme lately I’ve run into is people not really understanding ARI, the Asterisk REST Interface. This is not a new thing (both ARI ...
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Testing the trivial

Lately, you may have seen some submissions from Sangoma’s CommUnity team (covered in it’s own post.)  Many of these submissions were small but helpful changes, ...
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Asterisk 20Documentation

#ColpHardFacts

This is a bit of a strange blog post but recent responses to people reminded me of the Colp Hard Facts webinar I did recently. ...
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Integrating PJSIP 2.13

Asterisk 18.17.0 and 20.2.0 were released recently with support for PJSIP 2.13.  This version of PJSIP includes an important change to deal with race conditions ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 20

The fork less traveled

As we merge in a number of positive CommUnity UCaaS submissions, it is a good reminder of the challenges associated with private forks and forks ...
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DocumentationPJSIP

Assumptions When Resolving An Issue

I help out a lot across various avenues: mailing lists, forums, issue tracker, IRC, and more. I’ve noticed a trend recently where people aren’t verifying ...
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Asterisk Media Experience Score

Objectively measuring call quality has always been tough because it’s, well, highly subjective.  The first measurement process that usually comes to mind is the Mean ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 18

Asterisk Geolocation Capabilities

One of the larger Asterisk projects last year was adding the ability to create, manipulate and pass on Geolocation information. The most obvious use case, ...
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ProjectProject General

AstriCon 2023 Is Over!

As I write this it’s been approximately a week since AstriCon 2023 completed. I wanted to do a small blog post to thank everyone who ...
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Asterisk 21Documentation

Asterisk 21 Module Removal

Asterisk 21 is scheduled to become the next major release.  As part of that process there are a number of modules being removed, see: wiki.asterisk.org. ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 21

Asterisk 21 Module Removal – chan_sip

chan_sip will no longer be included with Asterisk as of the release of version 21. Deprecated in version 17, chan_sip has been scheduled for removal for ...
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Python3 is here

The switch to Python3 for the Asterisk tesuite has been released!  Previous blog posts have gone over some of the internal changes that have been ...
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Improvements to app_voicemail

If you keep an eye on the Asterisk gitlog, you may have seen some additions to app_voicemail. These changes include the ability to ‘show’ a

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Speeding up ARI

As you may have seen from a recent submission, it was recently found that there was a consistent delay when adding a channel into the

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A Year Recap for Asterisk 21

From Gerrit to Github This was a year full of big changes for Asterisk, the development team, and the community.  One of these changes was

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