City rebuilds network, telephony with open source; Cisco.com's outages

NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile A California city rebuilds network using all open source software By Tim Greene The Asterisk IP PBX and other open source software helps the city of Madera, Calif., build an VoIP network. Read full story Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com. SPONSORED BY ATANTICA We BUY and SELL CISCO equipment. We supply new, refurbished and pre-owned Cisco equipment at competitive prices. Please contact us with your Cisco requirements for your next project. We also buy and accept trade-in of all used Cisco equipment. Click here for more information! 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