Asterisk PBX in Nigeria

Hi all, I started this blog a few years ago with many ideas of knowledge I can share with different people about the wonderful possibilities of IP PBX with special focus on Asterisk. I created a few posts and stopped. Not because I loved to but I got "very busy". The times I had little time to blog, the feeling of "I need so much time to create a good blog" overwhelmed me. However, today, I will like that to change. If it is half a minute, I will "Nike" - Just do it. I therefore apologise upfront if you see any imperfection in the text of any of my post. Just have it in mind that it is all beautiful. Picture credit: www.thenester.com 

Hi all, Open source PBX solutions have been in existence for quite sometime. However, the adoption is still low in this side of the world. A majority of organisations in Nigeria have deployed analog PBX systems with Panasonic systems leading the pack. This is because the cost of implementing the analog solution was lower than the alternatives, then. However, the market started asking for more than what the conventional analog system offers. This led to some organisations deploying digital telephone systems. Asides functionality, certain organisations went digital for aesthetics of the phones (and/or "effizy"). Most IP phones are nice looking with brightly lit screens. The few organisations that adopted digital PBX technology used proprietary solutions like Alcatel Lucent, Avaya, Ericsson and Cisco Unified Communication System. Certain other organisations have deployed hybrid systems which are mixtures of analog and digital PBX systems. Open source PBX syste...