VOIP Today magazine contributing author Alaa El Fahham spoke today with Mark Spencer about Business , technology and products. It’s a very intersting interview with Digium’s CTO and creator of Asterisk, the Open Source Telephony Platform.

Source: VOIP Today – Exclusive interview for VOIPToday Magazine Mark with Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk

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Date: November 25, 2009
Location: Center for fine arts, Brussels – Belgium
Organizer: DBScape
Sponsors: Acapela Group, Altitude Software, Eloquant, I6NET, DDM, Genesys, NextiraOne, Prosodie, Telisma

I6NET sponsors VocaBase User Club #1 next November 25th at Brussels, in the context of the Europalia China festival.  Vocabase User Club is an event that brings together all our existing and potential customers but also best partners. It’s an ideal place to share more about VocaBase and VoiceXML applications.

More information: www.vocabase.com

Around the world, organizations are conscious about IT spending and are continually evaluating ways to slash their operating expenses while keeping up with the latest technological trends.  The City of Schoten, a city of 33,000 inhabitants located in the heart of Belgium, recently migrated from 15 disparate telephone systems to an open-source PBX solution to reduce operating and maintenance costs and gain greater functionality to meet their telephony needs. Moving to Digium’s Asterisk, the organization expects to save nearly $50,000* annually while reaping the rewards of a robust IP-based telephony solution.

According to our partner Avanzada7, the City of Amsterdam is following Schoten, implementing Asterisk for their telephony too… Here in Spain, we are devilvering many projects for Cities like the City of Avila over Asterisk and VXI* for IVR voice portal services…

A Wind of Change is Blowing Through the Cities and Public Administrations.

Sources:

• Schoten’s Diguim Case Study – PDF
• Avila’s Ambiser – I6NET Case Study – Post

Acapela Group, the European leader in speech synthesis, is launching Voice as a Service (VaaS), an online, cost effective, very easy to use, straight talking solution that gives any content a natural voice and enables customers to profit from the power of the spoken word.

We are please about our partner’s announcement, that is a very complementary service for the I6NET’s VXI* Cloud Program or any VXI* VoiceXML server connected to Internet too!

To get more information and sign up for an evaluation account, check out the Acapela Voice as a Service dedicated website: http://www.acapela-vaas.com

Asterisk is the world’s most popular open source telephony platform and the AsteriskExchange is the first online marketplace where products and services built on or integrated with the Asterisk platform can be marketed. The site will provide one-stop shopping for telephony solutions. AsteriskExchange is designed for marketplace activities and is targeted at Asterisk integrators, developers and solution providers.

We are please about this Digium’s announcement, it’s a great news for the Asterisk’s Ecosystem!

Follow AsteriskEchange: http://www.asteriskexchange.com/

I6NET CEO Ivan Sixto (Yvan in french) was recently interviewed by Philippe Poux at VocalNews about our company’s story and the evolution of IVR technologies today.

Source: http://www.vocalnews.info/index.php?post/Interview-d-Yvan-Sixto

I6NET is in continuous systems growth in order to provide more and better solutions base on all our technology components for the Next Generation Telephony. Today, we are please to announce, Infratech Solutions services renewal for all our IT management operations of virtualization, research & development servers and support for colocation services. With Infratech, our servers are maintained by the best system engineers with highest carrier conditions at VerizonBusiness / Interxion sites. Infratech and I6NET work together to deliver the high quality of services for our IVR / IVVR platforms. “Our teams are working really close since several years and share a strong commitment. Datacenter management becomes a very different task with them”, says Iván Sixto CEO of I6NET.

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