Chapter 11. Asterisk: The Future of
Telephony
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
We have arrived at the final chapter of this
book. We've covered a lot, but we hope that you now realize that we
have barely begun to scratch the surface of this phenomenon called
Asterisk. To wrap things up, we want to spend some time exploring
what we might see from Asterisk and open source telephony in the
near future.
While prognostication is always a thankless
task, we are confident in asserting that open source communications
engines such as Asterisk herald a shift in thinking that will
transform the telecommunications industry. In this chapter, we will
discuss some of our reasons for this belief.
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