AstBill - Free Billing, Routing and Management software for Asterisk and VOIP

Demand Grows for Off-the-Shelf OSS/BSS Solutions

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:54:10 +0000

Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast Division recently released preliminary data from an in-depth research report finding drastic changes in communications service provider (CSP) buying habits for customized OSS/BSS solutions. According to Stratecast, CSPs are purchasing commercial off-the-shelf products that do not require customization. Previous Stratecast research in 2005 showed that 16 percent of CSPs questioned were implementing highly customized OSS/BSS solutions. This figure has now plunged to 2 percent.

Annual OSS/BSS spending is estimated to be 20 to 25 percent of CAPEX. Based on combined estimates, annual service provider CAPEX is expected to be $150 billion to $250 billion. This results in OSS/BSS capital spending estimates of $30 billion to $62.5 billion annually, which does not include professional services beyond those required to install the solution or managed services. More

The Ignorance of Crowds

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:42:35 +0000

The Ignorance of Crowds

Carr makes a number of points succinctly and eloquently, and peppers them with relevant quotes:

Opensource tends to be “extraordinarily powerful way” to improve things that exist, but tends to be “less successful at creating exciting new programs from scratch”, and as a consequence “it’s an optimisation model rather than an invention model”

He quotes University of Michigan professor Scott Page as saying “when solving problems, diversity may matter as much as, or even more than, individual ability”, and extends this theme by saying “What an unorganised, fairly random group of people provides is not just a lot of eyeballs but a lot of different ways of seeing”

AstBill Manual

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:37:08 +0000

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AstBill - Free Billing Routing and Management software for Asterisk and VOIP

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:13:30 +0000

Asterisk - the Open Source PBX

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:47:51 +0000

Easily build your own multiprotocol PBX on Linux!

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway). Check the Features section for a more complete list.

AstBill is not only a free web-based, user friendly billing interface for Asterisk and VOIP. It is also a Asterisk configuration and GUI management tool and a standardized implementation of Asterisk using REALTIME and static configuration as you please.

AstBill is free open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. AstBill is free to download and use. If you like what AstBill can do for you, please work with us to expand and refine AstBill to suit your needs.