October 07, 2005

Jared Smith Presents on Asterisk

The Utah Valley Linux User’s Group is meeting tomorrow, Saturday Oct 8, to get a presentation from “Jared Smith, co-author of O’Reilly�s recent top-selling book ‘Asterisk: The Future of Telephony’.”

Here’s the full meal-deal along with time, location, and hints of free stuff:

On Saturday Oct 8, Jared Smith, co-author of O’Reilly�s recent top-selling book “Asterisk: The Future of Telephony? will present to the Utah Valley Linux Users Group on Asterisk and VoIP.

About Jared

Jared is a Linux systems administrator with several years of telephony and VoIP experience. While working for a previous employer, he rolled out one of the world’s largest Asterisk phone system installations. That installation alone saved the company $20,000 (USD) a month and paid for itself in less than five months.

He is also responsible for inventing a feature in Asterisk known as ‘IAX2 trunking’, allowing concurrent calls between two Asterisk installations to minimize IP overhead, and thus increase the number of simultaneous calls over a particular network link.

Jared�s Asterisk book is currently the fifth-best selling technology book on Amazon.

Read on for more about Asterisk and the meeting time:

About Asterisk

Asterisk is a complete, open-source PBX which does VoIP in many protocols and interoperates with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk is fully featured PBX with voicemail, caller ID, conference calling, three-way calling, call queuing, user directories, interactive voice menu options, and much more.

Asterisk runs on Linux, BSD, and Mac OSX. Check the website�s features section for more complete details.

About our Meeting

WHERE - UVSC, Room CS404. View an UVLUG Map.
WHEN - Saturday Oct 8, 2005
TIME - 10:30 AM

O’Reilly has promised to send some swag –probably books and tee-shirts.

We will attempt to post a video or audio recording for any out-of-towners. Check back a few days after the presentation.

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