The Definitive Quick Start Guide: Introducing Incredible PBX for XiVO
Today we kick off a new Asterisk® adventure with the introduction of Incredible PBX™ for XiVO®. This pure GPL implementation of Asterisk has no strings, no gotchas, no hidden agenda, and no...
View ArticleTake the XiVO Plunge: 4 Months of Free Cloud Hosting
Nobody has to tell us how painful change can be. We oversaw the deployment of over 30,000 IBM PCs only to switch horses and become a dedicated Mac lover. And we’ve invested almost 10 years in another...
View ArticleGoogle Voice with OAuth 2 Comes to Incredible PBX for XiVO
Since we began our XiVO adventure a couple months ago, the most requested feature has been direct support for Google Voice. For those in the United States, it remains the cheapest VoIP solution on the...
View ArticleVirtualBox Magic: A Turnkey PBX in 5 Minutes Flat with XiVO
Embed from Getty Images We’ve sung the praises of VirtualBox for many years because it provides a wonderful platform for experimentation as well as production-ready systems using almost any hardware...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi One-Minute Wonder: A Turnkey and Truly Incredible PBX for XiVO
Hard to believe it’s been 4½ years since the introduction of the original Raspberry Pi®. We love half-birthdays, and we’ve got a blockbuster gift for you today as we celebrate the fact that almost 10...
View Article2016, The Year of VoIP Choice: Redundancy and Multi-Tenant with Wazo
As we celebrate Labor Day, it seemed appropriate to document why Wazo separates the men from the boys so your phones don’t end up as boat anchors buried in the sand. Today our focus is "High...
View ArticleNever Miss a Meeting: Google Calendar Alerts for XiVO
Today we’re pleased to dust off an oldie but goodie and to introduce Google Calendar integration for XiVO and Asterisk® 13.1 This gets you a reminder call at any number you choose based upon the...
View ArticleIntegrating SIP URIs into XiVO for Free Worldwide Calling
It’s been a while since we’ve explored SIP URIs and all of the advantages that SIP URI calling brings to your PBX. Number one on that list is FREE calling to and from anyone on the planet so long as...
View ArticleType It or Say It: Asterisk SMS Messaging Returns with Incredible PBX for XiVO
We continue our XiVO adventure today with two simple additions to the Incredible PBX for XiVO dialplan that enable SMS messaging both from SIP phones such as the Yealink T46G and using voice...
View ArticleIntroducing Incredible PBX with XiVO Snapshots
If you’ve been following along in our XiVO adventure with Incredible PBX, you already know that there were a significant number of configuration hoops to jump through once the base install was...
View ArticleThe Stealth AutoAttendant for Incredible PBX and PIAF5
This week we’re dusting off an oldie but goodie, The Stealth AutoAttendant. If you missed our original column 8 years ago, here’s a quick refresher. When a call comes into your PBX, a generic greeting...
View ArticleXiVO Nirvana: Cloud Hosting with SIP Service for 15¢ a Day
Unlike in the Ma Bell era, the real beauty of VoIP technology is being able to experiment with different providers and never having to put all your eggs in one basket. And today we’re pleased to...
View Article2016, The Year of VoIP Choice: Meet Wazo and XiVO 16.15
UPDATE: Wazo 17.01 has been officially released. The complete tutorial is available here. And you thought the excitement was over for 2016. Well, not so fast. The core development team at XiVO has now...
View ArticleSiriously: It’s Wolfram Alpha for XiVO and Wazo
Ever wished your Asterisk® server could harness the power of a 10,000 CPU Supercomputer to answer virtually any question you can dream up about the world we live in? Well, so long as it’s for...
View ArticleIf It Walks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, Guess What?
WOW! When we started our 2016, The Year of (real) VoIP Choice series, little did we know everything that was about to unfold. It’s been an interesting last few months in the VoIP community with the...
View ArticleVoIPtopia 2017: Choosing the Best, Free VoIP Platform
[iframe-popup id="6″] Once a year we like to step back and survey the latest and greatest VoIP developments for the coming year. And 2016 was certainly filled with surprises including the release of...
View ArticleThe Loneliest Number: One Remaining Open Source Distro for Asterisk 14
With Asterisk® World just around the corner, this may come as a surprise to some of you. The Asterisk community that has championed open source software development for the past decade now has only one...
View ArticleDeploying WebRTC with Incredible PBX for Wazo
We continue our open source adventure with Wazo today by introducing Sylvain Boily’s latest masterpiece, WebRTC for Wazo. What started as a simple experiment has now become a full-featured WebRTC...
View ArticleChasing Rainbows: The VoIP in the Cloud Trifecta
Week after week, the VoIP landscape for Cloud Computing continues to improve. And today we have more terrific news. Not only is there a new release of Wazo with simplified support for WebRTC and...
View ArticleFree SMS Messaging Returns to Incredible PBX for Wazo
We continue our Wazo adventure today with a few simple additions to the Incredible PBX for Wazo dialplan. We will enable SMS messaging both from SIP phones such as the Yealink T46G and using voice...
View ArticleCloud 9: VoIP on Steroids with Wazo and Vultr for $2.50/mo.
It tells you just how far we’ve come in Cloud Computing when $2.50 per month now buys you an Incredible PBX™ platform with great performance for a SOHO or home deployment. So what’s the catch? What...
View ArticleIntroducing IVRs in a Flash with Incredible PBX for Wazo
Last week we introduced the all-new, API-driven Admin User Interface for Wazo 17.07. But pretty pictures are only the icing on the cake. It’s what’s under the hood that really matters. And today we...
View ArticleTwofer Tuesday: $1.50 Cloud Bargains for VoIP Deployments
We’ve been big fans of $5/month VPS offerings of Digital Ocean and Vultr for many years. When Vultr reduced their lowest tier to $2.50/month, we were ecstatic. These weren’t ideal VoIP platforms...
View ArticleIt’s Soup: The Definitive Quick Start Guide to Wazo 17.17
Today we’re pleased to introduce Wazo 17.17, the latest iteration in the Wazo fork of XiVO. Twelve years in the making with the same development team, Wazo 17.17 is really something special. It’s the...
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