Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, today announced that next week’s AstriCon 2009 Conference will feature expanded educational content for enterprises and government agencies using Asterisk solutions, and 30% more companies in the Expo Hall than last year’s conference.

 

AstriCon 2009 will be held October 13-15, 2009, at the Renaissance Glendale Resort and Spa near Phoenix, Arizona. Business, technical, carrier and advanced Asterisk tracks offer detailed information for a variety of attendees. Registration for the conference is open now at www.astricon.net.

 

“AstriCon 2009 celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software,” John Todd (News - Alert), Digium’s Asterisk Open Source Community Director, said. “With a decade’s worth of solutions now deployed in enterprises worldwide, this year’s AstriCon has content specially geared for end users seeking to maximize on the return from their Asterisk-based systems.”

 

“With as many as 40 companies displaying their latest solutions in the EXPO hall, all attendees can translate what they learn in conference sessions into practical product research during their time at the conference,” Todd said.

 

Digium also announced today that all attendees will receive a valuable package of three popular licenses when they check in at the AstriCon registration desk:
1. Skype (News - Alert) for Asterisk
2. Fax for Asterisk
3. G.729 for Asterisk

Skype for Asterisk is an add-on channel driver for Asterisk-based PBX systems. Adding Skype for Asterisk to any Asterisk server enables complete access to the Skype community, including low cost PSTN access and free calling to more than 400 million registered Skype users. 
Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile, or “Fax,” termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox.
The G.729 Codec is an industry standard algorithm that compresses and decompresses a digital audio stream. Applied to VoIP calls, G.729 compresses the audio data to use significantly less network bandwidth than a standard or uncompressed VoIP call.

 

Sponsors of AstriCon 2009 include:

 

AASTRA

AG Project

Aksys Networks

Allo.com

Alloy Computer Products

AMTELCO

Braxtel

Cisco

Citel Technologies (News - Alert), Inc.

Coredial

Dialogic

Digium

Dude

FreePBX

Freeside Billing

GM Voices

Loquendo

Lumenvox

NetXUSA

NoJitter

Odin TeleSystems

Openvox

OrecX

Panasonic (News - Alert)

Pika Technologies

Polycom

Positron Telecommunication Systems

Presence Co.

Sangoma

Scansource

snom

Synway

TMC/Internet Telephony

Valcom (News - Alert)

Vestec

Vicidial

Voice System/OpenSIPS

Western WiMax

Xorcom.