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OTTS Training, v3, 2.8 – Times are Busy

Mar 14, 2010 | Comments Off

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FreePBX 2.7 Is Final

Mar 1, 2010 | Comments Off

I’m excited to announce FreePBX 2.7 Final available for immediate download. We have over 2000 systems running 2.7 at the time of this posting and continue to see more features and increased stability as FreePBX evolves. The bugs encountered during this release were minimal and most of those addressed in the bug tracker were already [...]

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Heavy Queue Usage in FreePBX

Feb 28, 2010 | Comments Off

When it comes to busy queues and FreePBX, it often results in requests for help in the forums and to our support department because of overloaded systems or certain functions that do not seem work right.
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FreePBX v2 and v3 Release Candidate Status

Feb 18, 2010 | Comments Off

Progress on both the 2.7.0beta1 and v3 General Preview release candidate have been going great with lots of activity. The 2.7 beta will be moved into release candidate state this week along with an upgrade module provided to upgrade from 2.6 systems for those who prefer to use the GUI and stay clear of tarballs [...]

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FreePBX v3 SVN repository maitenance right now

Feb 10, 2010 | Comments Off

Just a quick note to all of you who may be trying to access the v3 SVN repository either directly or through the trac browser. The SVN repository is currently down and not accessible. We are aware of the problem and it is being addressed. This is related to some of the maintenance issues we [...]

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2.7.0 Beta1 Release

Jan 30, 2010 | Comments Off

As promised we are releasing the Beta 1 of FreePBX 2.7.0. This release is relatively minor though it does have some goodies that will be well received. The biggest change for this release is the new FAX module that will replace the previous FAX abilities in core and add support for Fax For Asterisk (FFA). [...]

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Planned and Unplanned Outages

Jan 22, 2010 | Comments Off

We have a planned maintenance outage scheduled soon and have had a few unplanned outages in the past month, so I thought I would take the opportunity to update you on both of these.

First off we were informed of a possible outage as follows:

Start time (central): 
10:00pm CST Jan 24

End time (central): 
2:00am CST Jan 25

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Upcoming Release Plans in Q1

Jan 18, 2010 | Comments Off

The development team has been busy as usual on both the v2 and v3 front with some good stuff to come shortly. We are planning to get 2.7 into beta by the end of the month with a fairly short beta cycle to release. The v3 release has been a developers evaluation up until now [...]

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FreePBX 2.6 Final, SIPSTATION Module and other progress

Dec 7, 2009 | Comments Off

A lot has been happening and we have been so busy it seems the only time to escape and get some information out is getting on a plane. (And that is quickly disappearing with in flight internet, luckily not available on today’s flight…).

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Off to the Carribean for some R&R

Dec 7, 2009 | Comments Off

When my sailing buddy contacted me to ask if I wanted to help sail his newly acquired boat from Tortola, British Virgin Islands to Cape Canaveral, FL I knew it was going to be a hard decision. Do I abandon FreePBX for a month and go sailing the Caribbean or keep coding?

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FreePBX Intro: Past, Present and Future

Dec 7, 2009 | Comments Off

In case you missed it, our lead developer Philippe Lindheimer gave a wonderful presentation on FreePBX at Astricon this past Oct. (2009). The presentation gives a very nice overview of FreePBX, its capabilities, and what the future holds. See it here:
http://www.astricon.net/2009/astricon/presentation/FreePBX/index.htm

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FreePBX v3 – Come Help Us Shape the Future

Sep 27, 2009 | Comments Off

We are super excited to announce immediate availability of the FreePBX v3 Developers Preview and invite you to get involved to help make this the best PBX application ever! We’ve taken FreePBX’s 5 years of experience plus tons of user feedback, and merged this with the TCAPI project (announced last year at ClueCon) and drawn on [...]

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FreePBX 2.6 Beta 2 – Come Join the Fun

Sep 27, 2009 | Comments Off

If you don’t keep an eye on the regular activity via the FreePBX Timeline or other means you may not be aware of the immense activity that has been going on with FreePBX 2.6. (You mean you don’t have that bookmarked as your home page because you have real work to do?:-)

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FreePBX Offers SIP Service

Jun 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Not only does FreePBX provide one of the most feature rich PBXs in the market, with a price that can’t be beat, it is has also been the key for thousands of businesses to escape the lock that traditional telephony providers have had on them for so many decades.

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Cisco Unified CM 6.1 to Asterisk and FreePBX SIP Trunks (Powered by Bandwidth.com)

Jun 7, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the systems I manage is an 875 Extension Cisco Unified Call Manager(UCM). At the moment the system uses SCAN trunks for long distance calling. These SCAN Trunks are provided by the state of Washington and interconnect via a four port FXO card. Callers use a PIN to make long distance calls. This is [...]

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Hello, again. I’m all a-twitter over coming back.

May 18, 2009 | Comments Off

As some of the more observant have noticed, I’ve been doing some commits to FreePBX recently. Does that mean that I’m back? Well. Yes. Yes it does.

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Restricting outbound calls in FreePBX (whitelist)

Mar 21, 2009 | Comments Off

Previously, we discussed preventing outbound calls from FreePBX by using two methods: Misc Applications and outbound routes. There is also (at least) two ways to allow outgoing calls using a whitelist, i.e. allowing calls only to the numbers specified.
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Open Telephony Training in the Pacific Northwest

Mar 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Sometime early in 2006 I started building systems with AA@H. About the only inexpensive way to learn Asterisk was in the forums and blogs. It was in the Nervittles blog of Ward Mundy that I won entrance to the first Fonality trixbox® Open Communications Certification (FtOCC, pronounced “F-talk”) workshop, held in LA – March 2007.

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Backup Module Ideas – and a Few OTTS Seats Left

Feb 15, 2009 | Comments Off

The backup module has been a long time member of the available FreePBX modules. It has been well received and has helped many users recover from potential disasters, and for that we are all very grateful. It has also been plagued by various issues and has been one of those modules that many felt could [...]

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A Quick Update to Start the New Years

Jan 8, 2009 | Comments Off

You may have noticed quite a few module updates available (for those of you running 2.5, which we hope is most of you). Although it seems like a lot there is really not much to it.

Module Updates

There were a handful of minor bug fixes in half a dozen of the modules that have been sitting [...]

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