Star2Star was one of the standout companies I saw last week at Astricon. These folks are integrating Asterisk into a number of offerings, including a slick portable VoIP system for use during emergency scenarios. Inspired by hurricane Katrina, this hardened PBX incorporated WiFi networking, radio links, and a variety of other technologies, all designed to make the jobs of search and rescue organizations easier in places where communications networks have been knocked out.
Huzzah! Awesome job, guys. If you’re not already chatting to Tom Evslin about his Recovery2 efforts, you might want to look him up too.Â
Star2Star also showed their gumstick Asterisk implementation, and their micro-PBX offering. The platform is called Starbox-X, and it’s all open source.Â
The other thing Star2Star announced last week was that they had decided to give away their TAPI dialer. Run this little ditty on a Windows machine, and you can now perform click-2-call via your Asterisk PBX. Useful stuff. Source code here, and binary here.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
