Elastix is an appliance software that integrates the best tools available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules to make it the best software package available for open source telephony.
The goals of Elastix are reliability, modularity and ease-of-use. These characteristics added to the strong reporting capabilities make it the best choice for implementing an Asterisk-based PBX.
The Elastix Project has the honor to present Josiah Spackman from New Zealand (chilling_silence ) as the October 2009 community member of the month.
Josiah has been a member of the Elastix community since September 2008. Since then, he has became very active in the forums, specially in the Tips & Tricks forum where he has shared his knowledge with the community. For this reason he is now a contributor of the Elastix Blogs, where he already wrote two articles, one about Voice QoS , and the second one about G729 and ILBC codecs.
Thank you, Josiah, for your support, and congratulations for doing an excellent job.
The Elastix team is proud to announce the launching of the Elastix Oficial blog . In this blog you would find information related to events, technical documentation, and everything related to Elastix. People who write in the blog are well known members of our community that are willing to share their knowledge with the rest of us. Nevertheless, anyone who wishes to submit an article can do it.
If you have a tip or an experience you want to share with the community about Elastix in this blog, please submit your article to rbonifaz[at]elastix.org. Palosanto Solutions will analyze the articles and define which ones will be published. All articles must be released with the GNU/FDL license.
At this moment we have two versions of the blog, one in English and the other in Spanish .
In the English, we are starting with the following two articles:
The first article is about a cheap, fast and efficient way to implement QoS with Elastix . This article is written by Josiah Spackman (chilling_silence) from New Zealand.
The second article is about interoffice trunking with IAX . Thanks to Bob Fryer from Australia, learn how to connect two offices together using Elastix.
In the Spanish blog we start with an article related to Elastix and security written by Augusto Sepulveda from México
We are proud to announce the release of Elastix 1.6 stable. It can be downloaded in 32-bit or 64-bit ISOs. This release has several improvements from Elastix 1.5, that would fix bugs from Elastix and CentOS. Here are some of the more important changes:
Asterisk updated to 1.4.26.1-4
Dahdi updated to 2.2.0.2-6
Asterisk now supports Huawei modems as trunks. Thanks to Odicha , creator of chan_sebi
Kernel updated to 2.6.18.164.el5, the latest CentOS 5.3 kernel
Mendoza is our first date in the south of the American continent. This is the fourth Elastix Certified Technician training course with great expectations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and , Paraguay. This certification will promote the expansion of Elastix Certified Technicians and Elastix Partners in the south region of the continent.
Date: 25, 26 and 27 - November 2009.
Sponsor Testing Center: Aiatek
Jose Landivar, Co-founder of PaloSanto Solutions , will present in a Webinar sponsored by Sangoma Technologies on Nov 11th, 2009. The brief presentation is part of the "Platform Strategies for Software-based PBX" series of talks and will concentrate on providing a solid overview of the Elastix project and its capabilities as well as a peek of the upcoming Elastix 2.0.
Over the week of October 5-9, a whole new group of students received their ECE certification in Panama. The training was demanding but very rewarding. Participants from El Salvador, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombia interacted with the instructor and themselves to share field experiences in the world of VoIP in Latin America.
Although the training required a full agenda, there was enough time left to enjoy Panama and its surroundings. All of us who were part of this training are very proud of all the new Elastix certified engineers and look forward to hearing from their successful endeavors implementing Elastix in the future.
