Asterisk Advanced Training with Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional Exam in the Philippines
Our Sister Company, Elisha Telecom Ltd. is organizing the very first Asterisk Advanced Training (formerly Asterisk Bootcamp) here in Manila, Philippines in cooperation with Digium, the makers of Asterisk open source VoIP. The 5-day training event will culminate with the Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional Exam or dCAP. The event will be held from September 24 to 28, 2012 at the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP-ITTC) located at Vidal Tan Hall Quirino Avenue corner Velesquez Street Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Metro Manila, Philippines. The classes will be taught by dCAP engineers coming from Digium in the US. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Course Description: The Asterisk Advanced course is a five day hands-on course which covers the knowledge and skills that an advanced Asterisk administrator should know to be effective at his or her job. It is a combination of both lectures and labs designed to give the students both the theory behind the concepts and the hands-on experience to be able to effectively deploy Asterisk-based solutions. Students will learn to create advanced dial plans and create innovative telephony solutions by using the features of Asterisk. Along the way, students will also get important insight into Voice over IP, and how to design robust VoIP networks. Students will also explore connecting Asterisk to a variety of devices, including analog phones and phone lines, digital phone lines, and VoIP providers. Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) The Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification is a verification of your knowledge of Asterisk. The certification covers a specific released, stable version of Asterisk. The dCAP test consists of a 115 question written exam concerning Asterisk and Asterisk-related technology, and a hands-on practical lab exam in which you are asked to configure a PBX according to a given specification. To pass the dCAP exam, it is recommended that you have read Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition by O’Reilly, have actual working knowledge of setting up and maintaining an Asterisk server, have familiarity with the Asterisk sample configuration files, and have taken the Asterisk Advanced course. Information on open source Asterisk can be found at Asterisk.org. Course Fees and Inclusions: The course is priced at a discounted rate of US$2,000.00 (typically US$3,000) inclusive of: Digium TDM411B Analog card (1 FXO port + 1 FXS port) Digium TE122P T1/E1/J1 card SIP Desk Phone Training Courseware Asterisk Computer Laptop Backpack Taking the optional dCAP certification exam at the end of the course is priced at US$300.00. Note that this is considered an advanced course and it is recommended that participants have at least intermediate knowledge of the Linux operating system and have prior experience in installing Asterisk from source. SLOTS AREÂ LIMITED SO PLEASE REGISTER EARLY! FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: Elisha Telecom Asterisk Advanced Training Course Registration Page: http://www.elishatelecom.com/training/index.php Information on Manila Asterisk Advanced Training on Digium Website: http://www.digium.com/en/training/locator/view_accommodations/165 About the Asterisk Advanced Training Course: http://www.digium.com/en/training/courses/#advanced About the Digium Certified Asterisk Professional Exam: http://www.digium.com/en/training/certifications/#dcap About Asterisk: http://www.asterisk.org
Elisha Telecom Ltd. featured in Comms Business Magazine
Our sister company Elisha Telecom Ltd. is featured on this August’s issue of Comms Business Magazine in the United Kingdom in its article about Hosted Telephony: Comms Business – August 2011 – Hosted Telephony
Digium Products for the Philippines
EACOMM Corporation in partnership with Elisha Telecom Asia-Pacific is proud to announce the availability of a range of new products from Digium for the Philippine Market. This includes: TDM410 Series Analog Cards – Next generation 4-port analog cards able to accept Digium’s 32 channel echo cancellation module. Designed to replace the TDM400 series analog cards. TDM800 and AEX800 Series Analog Cards -8-port Analog TDM Card with optional Hardware-based echo cancellation module. TDM800 requires a standard PCI slot while AEX800 series requires a PCI-express slot. TDM2400 and AEX2400 Series Analog Cards – 24-port Analog TDM Card in PCI (TDM series) or PCI-express (AEX Series) models. All units can accept optional hardware-based echo cancellation module. EACOMM ships these cards with 6 feet 50-pin M<->F cable for free. Requires a 24-port Patch panel to terminate to standard analog RJ-11 cables. Next Generation TE-series Digital Cards – Includes TI/E1 TDM PCI and PCI express card models, option for echo-cancellation modules, and BRI models. Available in single-span, dual-span, and quad-span models. Asterisk Business Edition – Licensed version of Asterisk Open Source PBX. Asterisk Appliance -Full blown Asterisk PBX supporting up to 50 extension in a small box. Available with up to 4 FXO and 4 FXS ports. Lumenvox Speech Recognition Engine – Powerful Speech recognition software designed to work with Asterisk open source PBX. Download our current price list for Digium VoIP Products in Philippine Pesos here. For inquiries and requests for quotation, kindly contact Ms. Liza Castillo at +63 2 438 2983-85 local 212 or email us at sales@elishatelecom.com.
Digium announces release of New Products
High Performance Echo Cancellation – For quite some time now, Digium has been offering On-board Echo Cancellation for its TDM2400 and TE series of cards, while those using the smaller TDM400 cards are left to tweak echo cancellation using Asterisk Software. Last Feb, Digium announced the availability of High Performance Echo Cancellation that users can download and install for FREE if they own a Digium Card or can purchase for US$10.00 if they don’t. HPEC is available directly from the Digium Website. We’ve yet to test the HPEC but Digium claims it provides ‘Carrier-Grade Echo Cancellation’. The catch though is the tremendous CPU Power that the HPEC will consume: “Digium recommends that users requiring 8 channels at 1024 taps run a PC comparible to a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, while users only requiring 4 channels at 1024 taps may run a 2.5 GHz Pentium Celeron” Nonetheless the added CPU load could be a small price to pay if it makes it easier for all of us to create the ever elusive ‘Echo-Free’ calls we’re all looking for. TDM800 Series – Also this February, Digium has announced the availabilty of its TDM800 Series of Cards. Addressing the ‘middle range’ between its TDM400 entry level series and the TDM2400 cards. The TDM800 can accept both the X100M Single FXO and S100M Single FXS daughter cards as well as the X400M Quad FXO and S400M Quad FXS cards. There are 2 Available slots for Quad Modules and up to 4 available slots for Single Modules. Giving a configuration of 1-6 or 8 slots (mix of FXO and FXS). The TDM800 does not come with the Echo Cancellation Module available for the TDM2400 and TE series cards but the Digium’s HPEC software can provide Carrier Grade Echo Cancellation for this PCI card. The TDM800 Series is available for purchase on-line for the Philippine Market from EACOMM’s Online Store.
AsterConference Asean Roadshow 2007
AsterConference Asean Roadshow 2007 www.asterconference.com which will be held at the following cities: Jan 31, 2007 Jakarta Venue: Le Grandeur Hotel (formerly Dusit Hotel) Feb 2, 2007 Manila Venue: Linden Suite, Ortigas Feb 5, 2007 Bangkok Venue: Arnoma Hotel After a successful AsterConference in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 31, 2006, the organizer, SEC Training and Expo together with JCMEX as one of the sponsors, is bringing this Asterisk Conference right to your door step. The conference will feature a panel of regional speakers plus local speakers from each of the country who will be speaking on the exciting development and technology of Asterisk. This conference targets anyone, especially business owners, decision makers, IT Managers, entrepreneurs, solution providers, who is interested to learn and know more about Asterisk and its benefits it brings to a company.
Digium Pricelist – August Update
The Digium pricelist has been updated to take into account the availability of the next generation TE-series cards with DSP-based Echo Cancellation (TE207, TE212, TE407, TE412). Download the Digium Philippine Price list here
TrixBox – Easy to Install Asterisk-based PBX
Trixbox, formerly Asterisk@Home doesn’t get a lot of credit, mainly because of it’s former name. Don’t be fooled by how easy it is to install and configure, Trixbox is a fully-functional PBX. In fact, probably 70-80% of people looking for an IP PBX need not look further than using Trixbox. Trixbox would be ideal for SOHO/SME’s looking to venture into IP telephony. This very comprehensive software package includes: Asterisk Open Source PBX – This is basically the CORE of the product and what makes it a PBX. CentOS Linux – A very good and secure Linux ‘flavor’ FreePBX – formerly called “Asterisk Management Portal or AMP”, this is a web based application for configuring the system. Fairly easy to use and understand, and quite powerful. Flash Operator Panel – Nice monitoring tool to view realtime operation of your PBX. AstBilling – Pre-paid calling card management software built for Asterisk. SugarCRM – Open source version of a very good CRM application with native integration with Asterisk. And more! If you want to join the Asterisk bandwagon, and don’t know where to start, I strongly recommend starting with TrixBox. And I’m betting you won’t need anything else but this software package.
Digium Pricelist for Philippine Market – July 2006
The Pricelist for Digium Products has been revised to take into account current USD-PHP exchange rates. For more information, contact us at +63 2 438 2986. Download the latest Digium Pricelist Here NOTE:Â EACOMM Integrated Solutions division can assist in the installation of these cards as well us setting up your Asterisk Server to the specifications you wish. Consultancy rates start at Php 1,000.00/hour. Setup/Support assistance can be on-site or remotely through SSH to your Asterisk Server. Extended maintenance and support of your Asterisk/Digium setup are also available on a monthly retainer basis. For more information regarding our Asterisk Consultancy Services, e-mail the integrated solutions division at: solutions@eacomm.com or contact us at +63 2 438 2986.
Asterisk Developers Needed
We’re looking for Engineers to develop various Asterisk-based Web Applications and to maintain and service existing Asterisk Installations. Applicant’s skill set should include: Web Programming in PHP/MySQL/AJAX Experience in Linux and its different flavors Experience in Asterisk installation, scripting, maintenance, concepts, etc…. Experience with VoIP products such as TDM Cards, IP Phones, ATA’s, etc… Experience in Network Engineering/Design would be a plus… University-level Educational Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electronics Engineering Interested parties should e-mail their resumes to: solutions@eacomm.com.
“Dial D For Disruption†– Article on Asterisk from Forbes Magazine
*We found this article very inspiring and informative that we hope Forbes won’t mind we post it in our blog. :)* View the Source: http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0410/063.html Dial D for Disruption Quentin Hardy 04.10.06 Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring. In a research park outside the low-key bustle of downtown Huntsville, Ala. Mark Spencer finishes his barbecue and resumes wreaking havoc on the multibillion-dollar phone equipment business. Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet and handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and a host of novel features for the phone. With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO – news – people ), Nortel or Avaya (nyse: AV – news – people ). “We have to figure out ways to get into everything: Carriers, businesses, equipment companies,” says Spencer. “For better or worse, I don’t tend to think small.” Spencer, who is all of 29 years old, is poised to disrupt the $7 billion market for office telecom switches (often called PBXs) much the way the Linux open-source computer operating system crushed the price of business computing and brought woe to established leaders such as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ) and Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW – news – people ). Since Spencer released Asterisk to the world in 1999 as a phone operating system, it has been downloaded 500,000 times, and it continues to be downloaded 1,000 times per day. Some 350 contributors have taken it from a rocky voice system to one with clear calling and more than 100 features. Electric utility Southern Co. is using Asterisk in a pilot program to translate voicemail into text messages for 30 managers’ BlackBerrys. The town of Manchester, Conn. is about to begin using Asterisk to run an application tied to the 911 service that will cost less than $1 million, half the price it would have paid had it used traditional phone equipment, and at 10% of the operating costs. Outsourcing company Sutherland Global Services has tested Asterisk in 400-person call centers, finding it cuts telephone costs by two-thirds. In Rensselaer, Ind. computer science professor Brian Capouch has built a commercial-class phone system that already touches 20 communities and covers more than 1,000 square miles with just $100 in personal computer equipment and $125 to customize each location. For a little more he built an Asterisk system of motion detectors and Web cameras that send video to his office laptop and can call any phone when something happens at his house. One of his students created a business sending other kids automated wake-up calls. Other Asterisk hacks include a way to pay your parking meter by phone. “You couldn’t set out to build a system like this. No one company could do it all. When you open source, people just keep improving things,” says Spencer. Asterisk could lead to the creation of thousands of businesses, as people begin thinking about the phone the same way they saw the personal computer in 1980, as a platform on which to build. Spencer had this in mind when he named his software after the symbol used in Unix computer programming to signify “everything.” Digium, the company Spencer created in 1999, now has 50 employees and more than $10 million in revenue from selling hardware loaded with a tested business edition of the otherwise free Asterisk, much the way Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT – news – people ) charges for a widely used standard for Linux. Digium makes a profit, though Spencer won’t say how much. Overhead is low. Spencer pays less than $15 a square foot for space (per year) and does up his own quarters in geek chic: reworked computer guts, testing screens, a fridge filled with caffeinated sodas and a sculpture he made of a robot holding a rotary phone. He shares his office with a 23-year-old programmer who was still a teen when they met. Spencer once had to write a note to his principal years ago when a job conflicted with the school day. Spencer’s parents are professors at Auburn University (his American father teaches education, his Egyptian mother French). In eighth grade he wrote a grading program for his teacher and sold it for $5. While still in high school, Spencer hung around Auburn’s electrical engineering department, designing integrated circuit structures for fun. “I’d go over to his house [to discuss semiconductors] and he’d be finishing writing a symphony on his synthesizer,” says Thaddeus Roppel, an Auburn professor and early mentor. “He kept up with his high school homework, too.” While on a full scholarship at Auburn, Spencer started Digium as a Linux consultant. He sold one-seventh of the firm for $500,000 to Adtran, a Huntsville telecom equipment maker where he had interned two years before. He wanted a really cool phone switch to handle sales orders, but when he learned that it would cost $10,000, he began writing Asterisk. “I’d never touched a traditional pbx,” Spencer says. But he knew a ton about open-source software, whose source code is given away in order to attract improvements. He had earlier built an instant-messaging client called Gaim, which has become popular among the open-source crowd. Spencer based Asterisk on Apache (nyse: APA – news – people ), the freebie software that powers many a Web server. Aided by a couple of Internet telephone veterans, he put the telephone switch at the center of the operating system and made it possible to connect it to almost any Internet phone system (except Skype). Asterisk was still a hobby until the spring of 2001, when the tech crash killed Digium’s Linux business. Spencer saw there was interest in Net phones and shifted gears. By the end of the year Digium was selling
Asterisk – the Open Source PBX
No blog about VoIP would be complete without mentioning Asterisk. And you’ll find the a lot of the postings you’ll be seeing here is asterisk-related/asterisk-compatible technologies. Why? Because Asterisk is the reason why VoIP is now accessible not to big call centers, not to telcos, not to closed services like skype, but to EVERYONE. Asterisk is OPEN SOURCE, meaning anyone and everyone can download it, use it, and even contribute to its further development. Asterisk open architecture ensures that it’s compatible with almost any system out there, and with the help of Digium it gives anyone affordable access to the traditional phone system. Using Asterisk your run of the mill computer becomes a full-featured, VoIP-enabled, Enterprise-Grade PBX! And the great thing about it? It’s VERY EASY to set it up! Asterisk is doing to Telecommunications what Apache Server did to Web Services and Linux did to operating systems. It will no doubt leave a huge influence on how the Telecommunications business is structured and operates. They may not admit it, BUT I AM SURE your traditional telcos, and even traditional VoIP system providers are scoffing at Asterisk publicly but playing around with it privately. Here are a couple of links to help you along the way of fully understanding this newest Disruptive Technology: http://www.asterisk.org – home of the asterisk project http://www.digium.com – original makes of TDM cards compatible with asterisk http://www.voip-info.org – Excellent Wiki of and about VoIP, a bit technical, but EXCELLENT http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net – Excellent way to get you started with asterisk. Burn the application in CD, insert in an old computer, and have asterisk running and functional in less than and hour! http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2006/01/13/how_to_asterisk_pbx/ – Very interesting project for the geek in all of us. Run asterisk as an embedded appliance!
Digium Pricelist for Philippine Market
EACOMM Corporation is an authorized reseller of Digium Products for the Philippine Market. For more information on the various Digium Product Offerings click here. [Download our Price List for Digium Products] For more information about our whole range of VoIP products and solutions, visit: voip.eacomm.com or contact us at by Phone at: +63 2 438 2986 or Email: solutions@eacomm.com